Cav's Place

Since the next planned purchases are books and I bought the first one of them today, for a mere 10 RON ($2.45 or €2.26) from a former used books store that recently announced turning into a discount bookstore that I imagine can get away with such prices on books that aren’t used by taking overstock […]

If the previous such post covered no less than two and a half years, this one will cover a mere six months, but there are two reasons for that: One, on March 21 I finally switched to the new Analytics code, so it can’t hurt to have some final statistics obtained while using the old […]

As you probably know, three astronomical events took place today, namely a solar eclipse, a so-called “supermoon” and the equinox. If you want to be very specific, however, it must be said that, while March 20 meets the definition of a “supermoon”, namely the full or new Moon being within 90% of its closest approach […]

Meant to also include something about the plans for the new computer in this post, but now that I started writing it I realized everything’s too unclear and parts of it still quite unlikely, plus that what’s going on with the exchange rates makes it quite a bad idea to jump on it next month […]

Considering the sweeping rule changes, most people were expecting Formula 1 to be plagued by reliability issues and mistakes last season, especially in the early part. However, what happened was that the first rounds saw unusually few problems, in fact more being noticed later during the year, and even those were fewer than what most […]