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St. Paul

I intended to have this post written shortly after Easter, but April has been a really busy month so far (and looks to continue as such) so I didn't get to it until now. Next post, I plan to return to my series on Seven Languages in Seven

Links

Assorted Links (Spring 2018)

I decided to take a break from my programming series [https://danbscott.ghost.io/week-5-erlang/] this week (and probably next week [https://danbscott.ghost.io/st-paul/] too). Like back in the fall [https://danbscott.ghost.io/assorted-links-fall-2017/], I've got some links saved up that are related to things

Computer

Week 5: Erlang

This post continues my journey through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate. This week's language was Erlang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)], the first Functional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming] language in the book (although Scala is a hybrid language that

Computer

Week 4: Scala

I'm now past the half-way point of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. This week was about the language Scala [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)]. Due to time constraints and interest level, I haven't given it quite as much attention as some of the

Computer

Week 3: Prolog

This post continues my series on Seven Language in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate. As in the previous posts, I'm going to share my notes on this chapter, including a few excerpts, some significant methods, snippets of code, and links for further reading. Week 1 [https://danbscott.ghost.

Book

Week 2: Io

Continuing the series I started last week, this post is about the entry in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks on the prototyping [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming] language Io [http://iolanguage.org/]. As before, I'm going to share my notes on this chapter, including a few

Book

Week 1: Ruby

As I mentioned last week [https://danbscott.ghost.io/updating-ubuntu/], I'm trying to work through the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate this winter. This first week was about the object-oriented [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming] language Ruby [https://www.ruby-lang.org/]. Week

List

Updating Ubuntu

There is a project I have in mind for this winter (more on that at the end of this post) that I want to use Linux for. I have an old Acer netbook that was running Ubuntu 10.04 so I decided to update it to a more recent release.

Math

Circles and Triangles

This post is about a book on geometry that I read last year (finishing up over the holidays). Beautiful Geometry [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10065.html] was written by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. Each of its 51 chapters explains a topic in geometry and presents an artistic plate

New Brunswick

NB Budget 2018 - Getting Educated

As in previous years, I've written the post below to provide a summary of New Brunswick's latest provincial budget, which was released today. I've also chosen to take a closer look at the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development this time. Where Things

General

CANZUK

CANZUK stands for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Specifically, it is about a proposal [http://www.canzukinternational.com/] for closer political ties—including free movement—between these countries. I don't normally sign or share petitions, but there is one for the CANZUK concept (HERE [https:

Economics in Video Games

Dwarf Fortress GDP

A number of years ago, I wrote this post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/sim-citys-laffer-curve/] . I made a category tag for it, but haven't put anything else into that category—until now. Introduction Dwarf Fortress [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/] is an iconic [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/

Movies & TV

Documentary Notes

Over the holidays I watched some documentaries on Netflix. I thought I'd share some of the things I found interesting for my first post of 2018. To start with, here are a couple of great clips from some BBC nature documentaries: Human Planet showed a traditional narwhal hunt

2017 Year in Review

I've been blogging for four years now. At the end of each year, I take a look back at what I've written over the past twelve months and highlight some of my favourite posts. It's also an opportunity to provide a convenient annual archive

Book

There Really Is a Tree

This is my final post for the year (not counting a year in review summary planned for a week from now) and it is a book review I've been saving for Christmas. The book is Every Good Endeavor: Connecting your work to God's work by Tim

Book

Salt makes you Thirst

This post contains reviews of a couple of history books that I read this fall: Salt and Thirst. The former is about salt as an ingredient, preservative, and commodity; the latter is about approaches to water management in various ancient societies. Salt Salt: A World History [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

Outdoor Adventures

National and Local Parks, 2017

We're approaching the end of another year so it is time to start looking back at 2017. One of my goals [https://danbscott.ghost.io/2016-year-in-review/] for this year (since it is Canada's sesquicentennial [https://danbscott.ghost.io/150th/] anniversary) was to visit a few National

Museums

Ottawa Museum Crawl

At the end of last week, I had a business meeting in the Ottawa area. I decided to stay for the weekend since it was a good opportunity to visit our nation's capital during Canada's 150th [https://danbscott.ghost.io/150th/] anniversary. On Saturday, I went

Art

Artistic River Map

I got a new art print from Etsy [https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/545429118/rivers-of-europe-print-physical-europe?ref=shop_home_active_25] and wanted to show it off in this post. This print is a map composed solely of rivers [https://danbscott.ghost.io/27-rivers-to-know/] . Rivers, maps, and fractals are some

Board Games

Storytelling Outside the Box

This post comprises a board game review and an interactive map I made, joined by the common theme of non-traditional storytelling. Rogues to Riches is a story-telling board game, created by Sam Fraser [http://growgiantgames.com/] in Halifax [http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2014/08/07/rogues-to-riches-for-halifax-board-game-developer.html] . I

Professional

Delving into the fundamentals of anaerobic digestion

On the heels of my previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/weftec-2017/], I wanted to write something else related to the science of wastewater treatment. The two papers I discuss below are ones that I've read in the past, but haven't shared any notes on before.

Professional

WEFTEC 2017

At the start of the month, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I attended a big wastewater conference in Chicago. Note: everything on this blog is solely my own view and is written in my own capacity. I was one of over 22,000 people to attend WEFTEC

New Brunswick

Fresh Canvas

This weekend I went to a couple of art exhibits and I decided to share a bit about them below. On Saturday, I went to Saint John for the day. I got lunch at the City Market, wandered around Uptown for a while, visited the New Brunswick Museum, and went

Movies & TV

Assorted Links (Fall 2017)

Last week I was in a conference in Chicago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_-cUdmdWgU]. I plan to write about it later this month, but for this week I just wanted to share some miscellaneous links (mostly related to things I've written about previously) that I&

Water

Arctic Salinity

This post is an informational .gif that I put together about annual variability in the salinity of the Arctic Ocean (and North Atlantic/Pacific). As I noted in a recent book review [https://danbscott.ghost.io/putting-civilization-in-the-sea/], I've read a number of books about the sea this year.