The Danish excuse list
Thursday 4 September 2014, 12:35Denmark, being part of Europe, has a great deal of bureaucracy and many rules. However, the Danes are not really rule-followers. That at least is their reputation among people from other Nordic countries and I can see why. This is a list of excuses I've heard from Danish people, mostly government bureaucrats. All are genuine, though some have been paraphrased from their more complicated original forms or to remove personal information. The list will be periodically updated.
A few days in Denmark
Thursday 4 September 2014, 12:32As I start writing this, it's Thursday aboput 2pm in Copenhagen, and I am in the waiting room at International House Copenhagen, waiting to apply for a Central Persons Register (CPR) number. I have been in Denmark since Monday morning.
Heading for Denmark
Thursday 28 August 2014, 18:59I don't think I have officially mentioned this here on my Web log yet, but here it is: I am moving to Denmark to work as a postdoc in the Scaleable Similarity Search project at the IT University of Copenhagen. This is a one-year temporary position with a possible renewal for a second year.
As I type this, I am in my apartment in Winnipeg, sitting on top of my modular synthesizer in its Pelican case because that is the closest thing to furniture that hasn't been taken away by either the movers or Goodwill.
The Apollo moon landings were fake
Sunday 20 July 2014, 20:20The Apollo moon landings were fake.
I don't mean that they did not occur - it was before I was born, but it seems clear that men did at one time walk on the Moon. There are too many independent confirmations of that for it to be in any reasonable doubt. However, the Apollo Moon landings occurred under false pretences. The story told about the factual events, both at the time and now, was and is a dishonest story, carefully constructed to further the goals of the US government and certain other powerful forces.
Photo gallery of 2014 synthesizer projects
Thursday 26 June 2014, 21:00Here's a photo gallery (salvaged from my old gallery software in August 2020) of the work I did in 2020 refinishing the end cheeks of a Pittsburgh Modular Cell case and constructing a "universal host" Eurorack module based on an ODROID single-board computer.
Don't plagiarize your cover letters!
Monday 10 February 2014, 08:39The text below pretty much speaks for itself. Bold highlighting and numbered footnotes in [square brackets] are mine; all the rest is as I received it. Some irregularities of spacing and punctuation, visible in the original email, aren't obvious in the HTML. Names of the students are redacted because (after finding several more copies on the Web) I imagine the students are relatively innocent victims of bad advice. Name of the institution not redacted because I hope others who receive such letters and look for them on the Web will be able to easily find this posting.
TikZでマック・ペイントの床しいタイリングを描きましょう
Friday 13 December 2013, 13:09TeXとLaTeXで画を書いたらTikZは便利とポピュラーです。 みんなはきれいなグラフィクスを作っています。 たとえば、これがtexample.netから一つのクリスマスツリーです。
![[クリスマスツリー]](https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/images/2013-12/20131214-tree.png)
しかし、ただのグラフィクスには興味ありません。 今日は１９８４年からノスタルジックの画を書きましょう。 マック・ペイントを思い出しませんか？ そう…
プリティプリントの試作
Saturday 7 December 2013, 10:07今年「TeX & LaTeX Advent Calendar」に入りました。 １４日に私の書き込みを書きます。 それ前このサーバにGeSHiと言うプリティプリントソフトを備え付けています。 この書き込みはGeSHiのテスト・ポストです。
Photo gallery from TUG 2013 trip
Thursday 31 October 2013, 21:00Here's a photo gallery (salvaged from my old gallery software in June 2020) of my trip to Japan in 2013 to present at TUG.
Papers from the recent past and near future
Wednesday 21 August 2013, 12:03I just got back from a trip to multiple conferences in Ontario, and that makes it a good time to update my publications page. Most people interested in my academic work are likely to find out about it from other sources, but I'm going to post some brief and relatively non-technical introductions here as well for my general Web site readers. The official versions of these papers are mostly behind paywalls, but there are also unofficial "preprint" versions available to all.
