Pylimitics

If you’re anything like Shakespeare, (and come on, you know you are!) you occasionally have the need to fling an epithet at someone. And here’s a good one. Shakespeare used it in “As You Like It.” When you use it, you’re calling someone immoral, vile, heinous, highly criminal, very wicked. The word is somewhat obscure,… Continue reading

There’s a lot of talk about “dashboards” in the business world today. Everybody wants a “dashboard” presenting a summary of relevant information. Some software products are, to users, dashboards. The ready analogy, of course, is to the dashboard in an automobile, although it should also be noted that as manufacturers switched from analog gauges to… Continue reading

“Pale” isn’t an exact synonym for “white”, as in “white picket fence”, but it’s pretty close. And as everybody who’s grown up in or even visited suburban areas in the US, a “picket fence” is a pretty standard thing to have around the front yards there, and nearly all of them are painted white. But… Continue reading

Imagine you want to build a clock, but annoyingly enough, you find yourself stuck several centuries in the past, and you don’t really know how to start. The first thing you need is something that “ticks” in a reliably steady cadence. Enter the pendulum. Pendulums swing back and forth pretty steadily. Pendulums started being used… Continue reading