some people

Some people talk and talk
and never say a thing;
Some people look at you
and birds start to sing.
Some people laugh and laugh,
and yet you want to cry;
Some people touch your hand
and music fills the sky.
-Charlotte Zolotow
When two people of the first kind meet, fog meets frost, and they dully pass their dreary existence on this bleak [...]

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the guitar is hard again

So I’ve just restrung HY’s guitar.
The pristine white bass strings and the crystal clear treble strings beckon to be played, to channel a love song, or a Bach piece, or a bluesy chord progression. And I’m very inclined to oblige.
There’s just one problem: It’s a left-handed guitar, and I’m not sinister (in the original sense [...]

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love at first note

Captivating from the very first pizzicato

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crypto nuts

Cryptographers have a sense of humour.
Or maybe they’re just nuts.
Read the following excerpts from peer reviewed papers and judge for yourself.
Inspired by Carter and Wegman, we use simple primitives which we call NUT (for “n-Universal Transformation”) since they are so cheap to implement. We propose construction methods for block ciphers that we call COCONUT (for [...]

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1 John 4:16

Don’t tell me that God lives;
Why do I care?
Show me instead that Love lives,
And then, perhaps, I’ll hear.

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velveteen

An Easter bunny, of a different kind.
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others… He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and [...]

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