Welcome to the Bodaciously Excellent Blog of Doctorwhen! Let me introduce myself, tell you a little about my areas of expertise and interests, and try to give you an overview…
Ascii Art History
The Buddhabrot Fractal, Mandelbrot Set, and The Logistic Map
The Buddhabrot is a fractal rendering technique related to the Mandelbrot set. Its name reflects its pareidolic resemblance to classical depictions of Gautama Buddha, seated in a meditation pose with a forehead mark (tikka) and traditional topknot (ushnisha).…
MagicMirror Open Source Smart Mirror Platform
I recently embarked on a project to build a MagicMirror, an open source modular smart mirror platform. Below you can check out the video introductions to the mirror I made. This is…
The Apple Watch Is Amazing
Introduction I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch Series 4 for a year now and I am happy to report that this device is astoundingly useful. I am not a watch…
The Baby Got Back Wikipedia Edit War of 2010
In 2010 I got involved in an edit war on Wikipedia over the synopsis of the song “Baby Got Back“. I lost that war and the synopsis I fought to…
The Mass Imprisonment of American Women Believed to be Sexually Immoral
For much of the 20th century in America, a little-known but widespread government program locked [women] up without trials simply for having sexually transmitted infections—and then forced them to undergo…
How To Run High Use Apps During Off-Peak Hours
Most electricity utilities charge higher rates during “peak” hours, times and/or days of the week during which the public typically uses a lot of energy. If you run energy intensive…
Us vs Them, Manufactured Revenge Porn & Democracy
I follow Fareed Zakaria, the Indian-American journalist, political scientist, and author. He is the host of CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. I find Zakaria’s reports to be…