Month: August 2016

Mea Culpa:  This is a long winded review of Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. I first encountered the nine headed dragon in the Alpine villiage of Lauterbrennen.  It must have been 2004 or thereabouts, and I was traveling with two lovely girls I had met the day before at a hostel in Bern.  The place was…

If you’ve been following the rise of public coins, you have probably heard the term “premine”.  In a public coin, the money supply is public – thus anyone can see when and how all the money was created.  Traditionally, if monetary tokens were distributed before the transactions began on the network, before the transaction validation…

Mea Culpa: I don’t have an electronic version to share and confirm that I read it.  You’ll just have to find this book on your own and confirm we read the same thing yourself. “Spirals in Time: The secret life and curious life of seashells” By Helen Scales What a great book!  Helen Scales has…