• Despite Corel’s dreadful marketing, it appears today’s quasi-clandestine webinar was to unveil a new version of Paint Shop Pro, now with the awkward name Paint Shop Photo Pro X3.  For pity’s sake. However, it appears to have included at least…

  • For Christmas I received a box of slides that had belonged to my grandfather. The slides were 35 mm taken between 1955 and 1961, in a mixture of black and white and color. I do not own a slide projector,…

  • The last post relied on the Monte Carlo method to determine the probability of correctly assessing relative accuracy. The linked document is a more a complete answer without any of the Monte Carlo drawbacks. 20091213_Hays-LoadComparisonStats

  • I have a rifle that shoots 3-inch 5-shot groups at 100 yards.  This is not adequate for hunting where commonly shots are 200 to 300 yards distant.  As I work toward resolving this, there are some interesting statistical problems of…

  • My beloved Advance clock died about two months ago.  It did not surprise me to learn that there is no equivalent marketed anywhere at any price.  I post this picture in honor of this acme of alarm clocks.

  • This morning, in the back yard, the ants swarmed. The first picture shows the main cluster of the swarm, the posts in the background are railroad ties, which are about nine inches wide. The swarm footprint is a semicircle cut…

  • We found this really neat moth on our porch several days ago. It had already departed. It was in immaculate condition, and seemed the perfect opportunity for some focus stacking effort. As usual I used CombineZM for the processing, and…

  • This morning I had the door open to enjoy some late spring fresh air. We had a visitor enter the house. She is perished, alas, but she is also the largest bee I have ever seen. Tip-to-tip, unfolded, she is…

  • Oh, the things you’ll see. After dinner yesterday I was looking out the kitchen window, and lo, there were dogs on the roof of the house across the street. Two medium sized, confident, bold, and clearly well-loved dogs. The story…

  • A solid storage plan includes food, and also anything else you need to make the stored food into something edible. The difficulty is that none of the food storage guides or recipe books I have list how much fuel to…

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