¶ Robert Winslow’s Not-quite-a-blog

Welcome!

These blogposts are informal, non-rigorous, and often incomplete.

With that warning out of the way, Here are a few posts I’m fond of:

• Astro Symbols: Symbols for astronomical objects, both ancient and modern.
• Isomorphic Keyboards: Musical note layouts where relative physical position matches relative pitch.
• Doctors and Lords: A Bugfix for the English Language

The full list of posts can be found in the navigation bar, which is to the left on desktop and under the hamburger menu on mobile.

¶ All Posts, Chronologically:

• Government Purchases by Purpose 2025-10-08 What's in the G component of C+I+G+NX?
• Prefix-suffix Bicliques 2025-08-12 How many word fragments can we find that all fit together?
• Why the Mile is Weird 2025-07-14 If "mile" means "thousands", why is the statute mile 5280 feet?
• Links - April 2025 2025-04-27
• Useful Links 2025-03-14
• Fish to Eat When Pregnant 2025-02-17 A Chart of Mercury Content vs Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Seafood.
• Links - January 2025 2025-02-15
• Baby Tips 2025-01-27 Things I figured out about raising an infant. Your mileage may vary.
• That's Economics (song) 2025-01-16 A WIP adaptation of Tom's Lehrer's "That's Mathematics"
• Links - December 2024 2025-01-07
• Links - November 2024 2024-11-07
• GIS Maps 2024-09-21 Some geographical datasets I think are neat.
• Links - June 2024 2024-06-30
• Working from Home 2024-03-05 Some attempts to extract summary statistics about commuting and working from home from the American Time Use Survey.
• Word Shapes 2023-06-16 Comparing Words by the Letter-Adjacency Graphs.
• Sites with Manual html 2023-05-10
• Time Use After Covid 2023-04-21 How does time use change during recent recessions? An extension of (Aguiar, Hurst, Karabarbounis 2013)
• Partial UI Thresholds 2023-03-12 During the pandemic, how often did people work less to collect the bonus Unemployment Insurance?
• Syllabic Quinary 2023-02-21 A goofy group of numeral systems where number names are the same as their numeral representation.
• Horizon Distances 2023-02-15 How far away can an object be before it's blocked by the horizon?
• Stephen Foster's Music 2023-01-09 Jianpu scores for a few songs by Stephen Foster
• Jianpu ASCII Font 2023-01-07 A font to quickly jot down jianpu notation using ASCII characters.
• Christmas Songs 2023-01-07 Jianpu scores for a few classic Christmas songs
• Tom Lehrer's Songs 2023-01-04 Jianpu scores for some of Tom Lehrer's Songs
• Jianpu Key Signatures 2023-01-03 Some Infographics I made to Help Transpose Music to Jianpu
• Jianpu 2022-12-29 Simplified Numeric Musical Notation
• Online Data Sources 2022-12-05
• Encabulators 2022-11-27
• Links - 2023 and 2022 2022-11-27
• Working from Home 2022-11-02 Some attempts to extract summary statistics about commuting and working from home from the American Time Use Survey.
• Isomorphic Keyboards 2022-10-19 Musical note layouts where relative physical position matches relative pitch.
• Childcare Time Use 2022-10-16 Breakdown of time spent on childcare in the ATUS
• Astro Fonts 2022-09-24 A font which uses ligatures to encode symbols for the major moons.
• Discworld Ranking 2022-08-21
• XYX Compounds 2022-07-31 Chemical compounds with a similar structure to water.
• Element Names 2022-07-15 Some Idle Musings Related to the Names of the Chemical Elements
• Human Energy Units 2022-07-05
• Doctors and Lords 2022-05-05 A Bugfix for the English Language
• Calling a Whale a Fish 2022-04-28 Confusing Common-Name Cladistics
• Patterns in Consonants 2022-04-07
• Chinese Element Names 2022-03-08 Hanzi for the Chemical Elements
• List of Basic Chinese Terms 2022-02-25
• Wordle Solutions 2022-02-08 Pre-calculated Solution Paths for Wordle
• Open-source Emojis 2022-01-27 Comparison Table for a Few Open-Source Emoji Fonts
• Lead in Dark Chocolate 2022-01-07 While dark chocolate has more lead than other foods, it isn't something you should worry about.
• New State Birds 2021-11-21 A whimsical analysis of bird sightings.
• Interesting Etymologies 2021-10-15
• YouTube Channels 2021-06-24
• Notes on Plastics 2021-06-06
• Astro Symbols 2021-06-06 Symbols for astronomical objects, both ancient and modern.
• Notes on Astro Symbols 2021-06-06 My notes on the objects of the solar system, their symbols, and their namesakes
• Plant Ranking 2021-03-16 An incomplete ranking of common plant families, according to my subjective opinions.
• Binomial Color Names 2021-02-15 A table of hexadecimal color codes roughly corresponding to the ISCC–NBS System of Color Designation (with a few modifications).