Odds and Ends
- Local plants:
- Notes from Carol's lessons on our local vegetation.
- Puzzles:
- a collection of my all-time favorite puzzles.
- Simulation Valediction,
- a whimsical essay on simulations and consciousness.
- Management Quiz
- to test
suitability for a management position in a large
government laboratory.
- Is it fixed?
- A practical essay on statistics for troubleshooting.
- Ode to e
- A simple study of a function of infinite exponentiation,
answering the question, "What's so special about the number e?"
- House-current measurement
- Measuring and studying the current consumed by my house.
- Here is a sketch of how university
diplomas should work
in the age of the Internet.
- Statistics on the reliability
of my Charter Communications cable internet connection.
- Erucivory in slugs
- Photographic evidence of slugs eating caterpillars.
- Global warming
- A brief history, as seen by one who was there.
- Demonstrating Gimp
- A step-by-step demonstration of the use of Gimp's
"color curves" and "layer mask" capabilities to correct
a localized color problem in an image scanned from an
old color print.
- Sirius
- Some facts about a popular star.
Back to Peter's Stuff.
2012-03-01
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