Sidebands

The Sidebands channel was originally intended for short posts outside the normal path of discussion. My conception was of random or passing thoughts that weren’t meaty enough for a “real” post.

That idea didn’t last long — many Sidebands were as long as the regular posts. What remains is that they are (for the most part) about topics outside of the normal fare. By around #40, “outside” came to be defined as “especially technical or geeky” and that is where Sidebands have settled. They’re a chance for me to express my more mathematical and technical interests. (Granted, the line between my normal interests and my über-geeky interests is a fuzzy one at best.)

The new channel, Brain Bubbles, is the venue currently charged with the pithy posts, although many of those are awfully long, too. Brevity isn’t in my bailiwick.


Here is the list of Sideband posts.

  1. Wow; the interweb is… #1
  2. Truth and Facts
  3. Good vs Like
  4. Ignorant vs Stupid
  5. Reading Backwards
  6. The Boston Syndrome
  7. Down with 3D!
  8. Wikipedia
  9. Analog vs Digital
  10. A Full Hand
  11. Eleven Eleven
  12. Even Dozen
  13. The Number 42
  14. Harry Potter
  15. Funniest Moments
  16. And maybe the horse will sing
  17. Ready when you are, Mr. DeMille
  18. Another Star Dies
  19. LHC
  20. Spock is not impressed
  21. Perfect Popcorn
  22. Perfect Margarita
  23. Happy Anniversary!
  24. B.O.O.K.
  25. 64-Bit Address
  26. Proof Reading
  27. The Invisible Killer
  28. 2 ^ 64, ‘K!
  29. The Danger of Bread
  30. Lonely Vowels
  31. Morning Person
  32. Cable News
  33. Confessions of a Jerk
  34. The North Star
  35. Binary and Zero
  36. 3000 Bottlecaps
  37. Joining the Group
  38. The Next Hill Over
  39. Star Trekking It
  40. Chessboard of Rice
  41. CS Jokes
  42. Half Time
  43. Chaos
  44. CG Theatre
  45. POV-Ray 101
  46. POV-Ray 101
  47. POV-Ray 101
  48. L27 Details
  49. A Mazing Python
  50. Pawn to King-4
  51. POV-Ray Cameras
  52. POV-Ray Animation
  53. Making Movies
  54. Cantor’s Diagonal
  55. Numbers & Sets
  56. Spelling Numbers
  57. Weird Math
  58. Halt! (or not)
  59. Running Hot
  60. Tick
  61. Tock
  62. Quaternions
  63. Matrix Rotation
  64. Matrix Magic
  65. 4D Rotation
  66. Abacus Multiplication
  67. Fraction Digits in Any Base
  68. More Fraction Digits
  69. Inside a Tesseract
  70. The exp Function
  71. Matrix Math
  72. Trig Is Easy!
  73. Complex 4D
  74. Volume and Surface Area
  75. Electronic Shortcuts
  76. Fun with Op Amps
  77. Speaking of Op Amps…
  78. Watch Compass
  79. Growth Curves
  80. Divide by Zero

…and counting!