John Lindal’s Blog

Netgear Router

I have finally gotten rid of the worthless-piece-of-junk Linksys router that has been giving me headaches for the last three years. Circuit City had a $90 instant rebate on the latest Netgear router, which is just too good a deal to pass up. It was a snap to set up from my Linux machine, and it seems to be quite happy with our Windows XP laptop. The latter would always cause the Linksys to reboot during DHCP! Lately, even my OS X laptop from work caused the Linksys to reboot every five minutes, which was the final straw. So, if you’re looking for a good router, get Netgear, not Linksys!

Homer³

I watched an episode from the Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror DVD last night. It’s truly wonderful to have all the craziest Simpsons’ Halloween specials on a single DVD Homer³, one of the skits in the episode, proves once and for all that at least some of the writers for the show are true geeks. There were some wonderful math formulas floating around in the 3D world into which Homer stumbled!

It’s not new, it’s timeless

e^iπ + 1 = 0

Geometry

My back has been killing me for over a week. So why am I suddenly craving cheerios and milk?

While lying in bed staring at the ceiling fan — specifically the three screws used to hold each light bulb cover in place — I began wondering how to inscribe an equilateral triangle inside a circle. The next obvious question is: How does one go the other way? And also: Can one circumscribe any arbitrary triangle with a circle? How?

Click here for the solutions that I came up with.