Designs for this year’s Christmas ornaments. Clockwise from upper left: hope, love, joy, and peace.

Today’s listen: Haven by Apollo5.

“Surprisingly, if you allow a base to be any real number, and not just an integer, then the most efficient computational base is the irrational number e.” “How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary”

New on The Road to Jockey’s Ridge: gems, flotsam, observations and coincidence from half a year’s walking in which I have not managed to write anything until now.

Pro tip for making breakfast: Do not, in your coffee-still-a-slurping-in-the-machine early morning blear, mistake the plastic bin of dog kibble in the fridge for blueberries and put them on your oatmeal. I had a near miss. Be careful out there.

Cantharellus minor, small chanterelles, in the very damp woods Tuesday morning.

A scene from the garden, more or less

As I listen for the whistle, lie awake and wait
Wish the railroad didn’t run so near
‘Cause the rattle and the clatter of that old fast freight
Keeps a-makin’ music in my ear.
Go bum again…

Imagine that you are Dante, and Virgil points out to you a group of web developers who in life wrote code that hijacked users’ back buttons to redirect them to sports-betting sites. In which circle of hell do they reside, and what is their eternal punishment?

Practice carvings and a preliminary sketch. I have to carve new flower designs before I know how to draw them.