I’d never thought of Over the Rainbow as a spacey song until I met Abby. A nice three minutes for your Thursday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTMgeJrOYJU&feature=youtu.be

Wow.

I feel like this garnish is basically a troll.

My daughter just said, for the first time fully on her own, “I love you, Daddy.”

All is not right with the world, but I am walking in air.

I have a daughter, who I one day hope will want to go to college.  Against that backdrop, this article makes me so angry I don’t even know how to express it.  The saddest part is that I don’t see any reason to hope that there’ll be meaningful change in campus culture anytime in the next 15 or so years.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119?page=4

Good visualizations make it easy to learn something important about a complicated system.  This one’s time progression is scaled perfectly to show the role of natural carbon capture on a day-to-day and year-long basis.  It also makes it clear how overwhelming our carbon output really is.

Awesome tool for learning algorithm analysis .