Rag-bag

• Notes about the Greek word of the week from a local bible study.
• A talk about Thomas Harriot and the Mercator Map, 30th November 2024.
• A review from the TLS of a book about Copernicus.
• How to disassemble the switch box on a Dyson cleaner.
• Words spoken following a farewell dinner at Oriel, 28th June 2024.
• An article, Toward Nakba as a legal concept, by Rabea Eghbariah.
• Quotations about Thomas Harriot.
• Cards from Lambda the Gathering.
• That article in the Sunday Telegraph.
• A review by Anthony Flew of Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion.
• Pages from a memoir of Charles Augustus Murray with information about his time at Oxford.
• The short version of a eulogy for my father, Norman Spivey. Also, a copy of his article about his own radio design, first published in Sprat, the journal of the G-QRP club for low-power radio communications. If I'd been able to do it, a copy of the article would have been on each seat at the funeral service, for mourners to take away and enjoy later.
• How to play a guessing game.
• A completely useless set of scripts for Oxbridge CS interviews. (The real interviews are a lot less intimidating than this, I promise.)
• An article about Harriot's solution to a map projection problem.
• The Christ Church seven.
• In memoriam John Simopoulos.
• The ACM Forum letters column from CACM, November 1979; containing responses to the De Millo, Lipton, Perlis article, and especially a letter from W. D. Maurer that is the source of test case tMaurer.m in OBC.
• Two articles, from Radio Electronics and Practical Electronics about noughts and crosses machines.
• Documents connected to the 1860 Wilberforce–Huxley encounter.
• My collection of back issues of the Oxford Magazine.
• A Kripke kōan.
• Some apt quotations.
• The text of a sermon about Thomas Harriot preached in Oriel College Chapel on 21st October 2012.
• Obfuscated PDF.
• Notes about the Tangerine Tree, a collection of Tangerine Dream bootleg recordings.
• Code for Lunar Lander.
• Printing the New Testament in Greek.
• Euro-lock with a slipped cam.
• Wisdom from Planet Tom.
• Barbaric coordinates.