Not tonight, dear. I have a headache.
Mike Schilling
Mike has been a software engineer far longer than he would like to admit. He has strong opinions on baseball, software, science fiction, comedy, contract bridge, and European history, any of which he's willing to share with almost no prompting whatsoever.
All good things must come to an end. Morally ambiguous ones too.
If P. G. Wodehouse had moved from musical comedy to epic fantasy, it might have begun something...
It's a complex world.
A recap of The Kindly Ones, parts 6 and 7.
UPDATE: The list should include, not four members, but five, the additional one being Sinaloa. Arizona, Chihuahua,...
We complete our overview of fields by describing completeness.
A perfectly fair (trust me) division problem.
Discussing Eric Holder’s proposed challenge to Texas’s recent change to voting laws, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah...
Victor Davis Hanson, in a National Review post oddly reminiscent of the piece that got John Derbyshire...
Tonight, Mike recaps the Prologue to and Part One of The Kindly Ones.
There's an island where the first type always tell the truth and the second type always lie.
A tricky one.
Here’s a new one that doesn’t spell anything. More math, less English.
A guy I work with named Jeremy created this poster, which has gone viral in Giants circles....
We discussed fields here. Today we’re going to continue by talking about a more specific kind of...
I expect everyone has seen the story about KTVU in Oakland being fooled into reporting that the...
Tim Lincecum has had a rough couple of years. After winning the Cy Young award his first...
Mike Schilling tinkers with Tolkien.