Monthly Archives: October 2025

Mandelbrot Monday

In the Friday Notes from last August, I wrote about needing to buy a new laptop. In the September edition of same, I wrote about installing Ultra Fractal 6 on that laptop and shared a few Mandelbrot images I’d made.

I’ve been sharing two or three in Substack Notes every week for “Fractal Friday”, but Notes is a fast-running river in which things vanish downstream almost instantly.

So, I thought I’d start sharing some here on Mandelbrot Mondays, though I don’t plan to make it a regular thing. I am thinking about a series of posts exploring the Mandelbrot, though.

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Friday Notes (Oct 24, 2025)

Fall — my favorite season ‘cept for the fading of the light — has fallen here in Minnesota, and our thoughts are turning towards the question of what kind of winter it will be: easy or miserable.

My winter is coming triple mile markers loom, the first dead ahead: Will it snow by Halloween? Will it snow by Thanksgiving? Will it snow by Christmas? Answers to all three vary depending on the whims of Mother Nature and her unexpected offspring, Climate Change.

In the meantime, here we are again for another edition of Friday Notes.

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MN Twins 2025

The Minnesota Twins did not have a good 2025 season. They finished their summer with a 70-92 (.432) record — putting them fourth in the AL Central. A record like that normally means last place in the Division, but the White Sox lost 102 games this year.

Losing 92 games puts this season in a four-way tie with three seasons in recent history: 1983, 1998, and 2014. And now 2025. The tie is for the ninth worst season in franchise history.

Which is weird because the team looked pretty good on paper.

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Science Notes (10/17/25)

This Science Notes series (a subset of the Friday Notes series) gives me a chance to record bits of science articles that catch my eye and seem worth sharing. I’ve been doing this since my library app provided access to a huge number of online magazines.

Nearly all of which don’t interest me — in some cases, seriously don’t interest me. Bridal and Fan magazines are an obvious example, but there are myriad magazines devoted to interests that don’t interest me at all.

But I do like the ones devoted to science, and some articles fit some receptor in my mind enough to generate a note.

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TV Tuesday 10/14/25

This is a continuation of last week’s post. The list of shows I have is too long for one post, so this picks up where it left off (even so, that one ran long, and so may this one). As mentioned last time, I hadn’t written a TV Tuesday post in a while, so there’s a bit of a backlog.

Watching baseball takes up a lot of the TV viewing time during the summer, and I can only watch a few hours of TV in any given day (and not too many days in a row). Many of the shows in my watch lists are old shows that I nibble on for the memories.

The nostalgia is strong but often so is the cringe factor.

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TV Tuesday 10/7/25

It has been well over a year since the last explicitly named TV Tuesday post. There were only two posts after it in 2024 — Good to the Last Drop, about great shows, and Change Winds Blowing, which was more about blogging but did mention Mr. Robot at the end.

This year the only post so far was about the Amazon Prime adaptation of the William Gibson 2014 novel, The Peripheral. I hadn’t seen the whole thing when I wrote about it but was so disappointed by it that I had to vent. I can say now that it never got better — quite the opposite, in fact.

In any event, high time for a rundown on what I’ve been watching.

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