~pgadey

personal:

• writing help
• ./notes has notes about various things:
  • ./notes/books/: essays about books
  • ./notes/computers/: thoughts about computers and documentation for my scripts
  • ./notes/language/: poetry and belles lettres in French, Spanish, and Esperanto
  • ./notes/math/: recreational math
  • ./notes/music/: ukulele, alto recorder, and choir material
  • ./notes/nature/: astronomy, indoor gardening, and a bit of poetry
  • ./notes/txt/: text files
• µ-blog has a statically generated micro-blog of interesting links
• Thoughts from a Computer is an apology for my computer habits
• Puzzles inspired by the extra-terrestrial communication problem
• ssh public keys
• heaps: readings, games

ctrl-c.club:

• Basic communication and socializing on ctrl-c
• Easily upload content to ctrl-c using ssh/sshfs
• What has been updated recently on ctrl-c
• How many users are logged in to ctrl-c.club as a function of time (Will shoe-horn this in to something nice eventually.)

neat ctrl-c projects:

• (2016-06-28) ~gauntlet made an amazing disk usage calculator called radisu
• (2015-10-30) ~kar is making a conlang here. (local mirror)
• (2015-07-28) ~eka writes in Indonesian. They have a nice sense of style.
• (2015-06-02) ~philips has made a larger manifesto about compiled poetry (in Portuguese!) at poesiacompilada.com. Keep up the good work!
• (2015-05-22) ~philips has made a micro-manifesto about compiled poetry.
• (2015-02-17) ~nmael has made a Mandelbrot set renderer.
• (2014-12-17) ~jovan is working on a distributed search for counter-examples to Beal's Conjecture.
• (2014-12-17) ~fleacircus is working on D&D Attack Simulator.

Nature:

• Gardening:
• Indoor Garden
• Bird watching:
  • Balcony pigeons
  • Huron and Bloor red tailed hawk
• Cloud watching
• Observational Sketching:
  • Botanical illustration
  • Royal Ontario Museum
  • Allan Gardens
• Astronomy:
  • Scale model of the Earth-Moon system
  • Accurate wall sized star chart
  • Reflected dot sundial
  • Solar sketching apparatus
  • Camera lucida mechanism for sketching
  • Binocular mount with heated single surface mirror
• Calisthenics

Music:

• Ukulele
• Recorder or blockflute, a simple flute

Computers:

• Backup system
• Personal pdf library and reminder system
• LaTeX enabled wiki
• Time-lapse gardening assistant
• Random string figures selected from String Figure Magazine
• Office (whiteboard) cam: photographs the whiteboard in my office.
• Hex-Empathy-Zendo server
• Morse code pseudo-TTY frontend

Recreational math:

• String Figures
• Low Complexity Art
• Notes on Bongard problems: The problems, copied from Harry Foundalis' thesis, are available without solutions here. There is also an easy to print edition with six problems per page available: here.
• Hex Theory: topology, probability, and algebra in the Game of Hex (WP: Hex)
• (Brother Lawrence + Grothendieck) poster
• thesis and defense slides

(Uniq. )