tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120088742024-03-13T17:01:59.757-03:00del squaredmiscellaneous stuffdelsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.comBlogger601125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-6677085147079366632024-02-01T08:26:00.003-04:002024-02-02T07:12:52.141-04:00Working on SundayMy dishwasher hasn't been working well lately. A busy repairman said he was fine to come by on a Sunday to look at it. Usually I try to take it easy on Sundays and avoid work. He had a bit of a point that it was him doing the workThe dishwasher has been on the fritz at my townhouse. I rent, the landlord is pretty good. She got her repairman Johnny in touch with us.We went through his checklist. delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-6219615510549361712024-01-12T07:49:00.000-04:002024-01-12T07:49:05.288-04:00survivors bias and nervous breakdownI grew up believing that nervous breakdown was very rare, and being on the verge of a nervous breakdown was somewhat common. Years later I wonder if nervous breakdown was more frequent than I believed.When I was young going to church they sometimes did this thing called testimony. In testimony people in the congregation could stand up and talk for a short time about their experience with God in delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-2369805018529920162024-01-02T11:24:00.001-04:002024-01-02T11:25:16.464-04:00The Russian frontThere was an interview on CTV News a couple of days ago. The talking head felt that if Russia won in Ukraine, then this was just the first phase in an eventual Russian invasion of Western Europe. The Ukrainian supporter theory was that the West should thus bring greatest effort to the Ukraine conflict. I thought about this a bit and what the West perhaps should do at this point at the end of 2023delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-51507627292850277022023-12-28T10:03:00.000-04:002023-12-28T10:03:11.649-04:00themes for 2024I didn't set out to write an end of 2023, New Year resolutions for 2024 post. It just kind of came to me early on Christmas morning.I awoke at 4:26 on Christmas morning. I’m older now, was in bed before 10 on Christmas Eve. Too early to be up. Nothing to do but lay there. During that time between awake and asleep some thoughts crossed my mind. Eventually I drifted back to sleep. When I awoke delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-20928592871482941132023-12-23T10:07:00.001-04:002023-12-23T10:07:46.113-04:00returning to work after being retiredLately out and about I've noticed older workers in the stores and restaurants. I wonder if they are previously retired and now have to return to the workforce in their sixties for financial reasons
in the last few months I’ve noticed more older people, well into their sixties, working at retail and restaurants. mostly older women and some older men. perhaps sign of these times people having to delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-63256909309541818042023-12-15T13:59:00.001-04:002023-12-15T21:09:12.050-04:00decomposing a cube into a tetrahedronstarting with a close to square kleenex box I created a tetrahedron by successively removing corners, vertices in geometry terms, to come to a tetrahedronI made a tetrahedron by removing corners from a cube pic.twitter.com/IEcmfL1WsP— argc (@tookalito) November 23, 2023I'm experimenting with posting content on Twitter, with a link from here. Will see how it goes.
delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-75956031517357880752023-04-27T14:38:00.003-03:002023-04-27T14:38:46.194-03:00CanaGoldcontinuing this exciting series on crypto and pegged tokens in Canada. in my last post I sketched an outline for CanaCoin, a Canadian dollar (CDN) crypto pegged token.it occurred to me since thinking about currencies and pegged tokens. how about the "ultimate currency", the one still standing after all these centuries, gold. unlike CDN, which may be more niche, gold or a "gold crypto coin" is delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-32653749611088917092023-04-21T14:44:00.002-03:002023-04-21T14:44:47.634-03:00CanaCoinFollow on from my last post about pegged crypto tokens. I was thinking about pegged crypto tokens and the Canadian dollar (CDN)Offhand I can't name any or any prominent CDN tokens. I thought it might be fun or interesting to think about how to define a CDN pegged token. That is, a crypto coin whose value is pegged to the Canadian dollar. I came up with a name anyway, CanaCoin.So to be pegged, delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-86340193018302026452023-04-20T12:54:00.002-03:002023-04-20T12:58:17.239-03:00pegged crypto tokens in Canada Lately with FTX and everything I got thinking about crpyto a bit more.One subject of interest was pegged coins. Where some crpyto object value is kept in sync with some other currency such as the US dollar (USD). With Canada and pegged tokens there was an interesting tweet
Canada’s original pegged token #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/LJZVJkIdTO— argc (@tookalito) January 31, 2023
ah yes delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-71942420463128419642023-02-07T15:19:00.003-04:002023-02-07T15:36:10.925-04:00hello 2023It's 2023 now. Into February at this point. Still standing somehow. Still posting here, occasionally anyway. I posted more in the past. There were more readers too. The post count in the archive in the bottom right on this page shows a definite trend. I may have just covered most of the ground and that was that. It seems blogging is less over the years and twitter is more. A twitter tendencydelsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-75938463168690952582022-10-28T08:53:00.001-03:002022-10-28T08:53:17.336-03:00a progression in spendingthis is how government spending, and the financing of government spending, has progressed in the last few decades. these the first decades of the post WWII welfare state1960s: tax and spend new and higher taxes normalized to pay for major social programs1970s-1990s: tax and borrow and spenddeficits normalized. government spending surpasses taxes collected. public debt rapidly increases at all delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-70395838102295452082022-09-24T00:58:00.002-03:002022-09-26T07:06:54.268-03:00an interesting idea for the baseball strike zoneSometimes when flipping channels I'll stop on a major league baseball game and watch a few batters or a half inning. I used to watch a lot of baseball when I was young. Not so much the last few decades. If the Blue Jays have a good team in the playoffs I might watch a game if I remember when it's on.So I'm randomly watching this game with the terrible California Angels. The announcers to fill delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-26896906901921773452022-09-23T12:41:00.000-03:002022-09-23T12:41:18.635-03:00Australia central bank is insolventSurprisingly little coverage of recent financial news out of Australia. The Australia central bank has technically failed.Australia's Central Bank Says It Is BustAustralia’s central bank has equity wiped out Reserve Bank of Australia reports loss of $37bn hmmm. so the lender of last resort is itself insolvent. what to make of all this.ah no worries mate we're assuredbank of Australia delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-91897391047279886602022-08-15T11:42:00.001-03:002022-08-15T12:21:44.165-03:00could uncertainty increase the effectiveness of icing the kickerI remember when I stated watching football decades ago now, in the early 1980s. There was this novel strategy that coaches used when the opponent was facing a late and crucial field goal attempt.The coach would call a timeout before the opponent could kick. This strategy is known as "icing the kicker". The timeout is supposed to disrupt the kickers preparation routine, and make the kicker spend delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-12382353517032921252021-06-04T16:51:00.005-03:002021-06-04T16:51:34.075-03:00mathematical strategies to increase vaccination ratesLately the focus in public health has been getting people to get a vaccine for Covid-19. There's been advertising around it. Also an incentive game of "if this percentage, 70,80, etc. gets vaccinated by this date, then some of these restrictions might be considered to be lifted". Which is also pressure and punishment if the goal is failed to be reached, to identify and deal with the wreckers.I delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-57029014242830041392021-04-11T12:09:00.001-03:002021-04-11T12:09:16.738-03:00how to fix Sonicare iPhone disconnectI got a Philips Sonicare toothbrush last Christmas. I'd been with Oral-B before that. I'm glad I switched to Sonicare and I consider it a better product.One thing Sonicare does that takes some getting used to is the smartphone app with the toothbrush. I wasn't used to turning on my iPhone and clicking on an app to brush my teeth - I still only use the phone at night. Still the app is handy and delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-10323038099022338832021-03-29T06:24:00.009-03:002021-03-29T06:24:04.031-03:00Sarah Silvervan leaves the democratic party In recent news Sarah Silverman has left the democratic party. I'd only vaguely heard of her. I knew her as a loudmouth blue checkmark ani-Trump. how original. It appeared her political career had stalled or regressed. In 2016 she was a speaker up on stage at the DNC convention. In 2020 she was replaced, no longer a speaker at the convention. like Sandra Fluke.As far as I follow delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-24260945865925021212021-03-26T08:37:00.001-03:002021-03-26T08:37:01.707-03:00a plea for ties in NHL hockeyI'm tired of the NHL shootout. It has run its course. It should just end. I cringe whenever I see it in a box score. I turn off the game if it goes to shootout. I avoid watching shootout highlights.Maybe the shootout had a purpose back in the reforms introduced in 2005. That was a generation ago now. Hockey can change, as it changed when the shootout came in.My proposal is to bring back the tie delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-68364732844742918222021-03-24T07:40:00.010-03:002021-03-24T07:40:00.180-03:00Canada universities financially failingI'd missed the story a few weeks ago. Laurentian University is insolvent. I just heard about it from some who are close to the academic scene. I guess a factor was a dangerous reliance on foreign students. With Covid-19, apparently a lot of that dried up. Regional high school enrollment has been in decline for a number of years, so there are fewer grade 12s incoming each year. They were delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-49462340001159681252021-03-22T06:29:00.001-03:002021-03-22T06:29:03.678-03:00flexible, opportunistic womenSo there's a story out on Ellen Page this week. It made Time magazine. Did anyone see Time magazine? apparently it is still a thing. Anyway Ellen has had some kind of upper body surgery and is now identifying as a man and will go by Elliot Page. uh, sure. E. Page looked terrible in the Time photo, a 14 year old boy comes to mind. That's fine for a fourteen year old. In the next 4-7 years he delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-67108330239957359392021-03-07T15:57:00.002-04:002021-03-07T16:25:18.881-04:00future price direction on baseball and hockey cardsI sold a couple of hockey cards this week on sportlots. Some early 1980s Edmonton Oilers o-pee-chee. A guy in Ottawa bought them. I hope they are to his liking. They were the highest individual priced cards I've moved on that site.There's a fair market it seems for o-pee-chee hockey cards from the 1970s through early 1980s, the era that I have some listed. I only listed my hockey relatively delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-48459740592252267792021-01-18T13:24:00.004-04:002021-01-28T12:33:53.479-04:00some math problems for studentsI've pulled together some math things I've thought about in recent months that could be used as problems for students at different levels.world distance awayWhich is further away, halfway around the world or all the way around the world?This is one for grade school, before junior high.I took me a while growing up to grasp that one. A bit of geometry. I'd heard it growing up and it was some years delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-9339941262728717272020-12-28T07:05:00.011-04:002020-12-28T07:05:03.327-04:00if you forget your mask Many areas including Nova Scotia have COVID-19 restrictions and requirements around masks. So the local rule is indoor masks. Now when you are outdoors there's no mask. As stated you would have to put on a mask on going to an indoors public place.Now if you have a mask with you, say ready in your pocket. Then on going in forget to put the mask on, an unfortunate but completely delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-88517059771796068562020-11-18T18:26:00.005-04:002020-11-18T18:31:58.282-04:00got my Parler badgeSo I'm now a verified user on Parler. I got my badge. For some reason this pleases me. It's not difficult for regular users like myself to get verified on Parler. The process is straightforward.the dysfunctional culture of the blue checkmarkRegular user verification is a good feature with Parler. Back on twitter there was a "blue checkmark" culture. This is elitist and ultimately toxic.Everythingdelsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12008874.post-48757380348504375312020-11-16T12:46:00.000-04:002020-11-16T12:46:04.294-04:00COVID-19 and life expectancyThere's some interesting data now out of Florida around COVID-19 and life expectancy. With COVID-19, Florida PhoenixThe average age of death is 76.57, according to the data analyzed Sunday, with more men than women dying. More than 80 percent of deaths were those aged 65 and over. Now outside of COVID-19, the average life expectancy is per Florida Sun SentinelFlorida’s average life expectancy is delsquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03287159882518809852noreply@blogger.com0