I’m a bit offended that iRobot doesn’t make an effort to get my Roomba’s gender correct.

I thought I would try to do Wordle 1,039 exclusively with computer help.

Here’s the problem:

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Read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies.

I did not solve Wordle 1,037. I fell into the too-many-alternatives trap.

I’ve used Internet Software Consortium’s dhcpd for a while.

When I was setting up my new server I found out that dhcpd was past end-of-life. ISC wanted me to use kea instead.

The results of two more dinners from the local strip-mall Chinese joint: surprisingly good beef-and-broccoli, the opposite of fortunes in my cookies.

John Levine, one of the OG Morlocks of the internet, notes that he has the world’s lamest content farm.

I was in 8th grade for the 1974-1975 school year. For some reason, my mother kept the 1975 edition of Comet, the yearbook of Ophelia Parrish Junior High School. I just re-discovered it.

Long about 1996, I read The Text of the New Testament (subtitled Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration) by Bruce M. Metzger, 3rd edition.