Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.

I’m slowly and politely getting a large dataset (on the order of hundreds of millions of rows) via its API, so I wrote a script that logs progress and helps restart after errors. That logfile is going to end up being larger than the cross-national survey dataset I analyzed for my first empirical paper.

Exclave Pixel Blitters was the name of my New Wave band in college

@hotdogsladies A nice big Baby Boom poster for you about the dread year of 1946 and the march of time in general, as per @RecDiffs discussion. Some more detail at https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/12/20/the-baby-boom-again/

RIP Tony Hoare, father of Quicksort. https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html

Everything is fine over there