Don't believe everything you read on the internet

We finally have the real Abraham Lincoln that is credited with that famous quote

Don't believe everything you read on the internet just because there's a picture with a quote next to it. –Abraham Lincoln  

Thanks https://favordelivery.com for the glasses.

file exchange pick of the week

After five years up on MatlabCentral, my little script to plot histograms has been selected as a "pick of the week" by Mathworks. Pretty cool - I'm even getting a free T-Shirt. The best part is that I finally have something to show Eli that Matlab appreciates me as much as Mathematica appreciates him. Next time I hope they take a look at my beautiful line colors submission to matlabcentral so they can choose something besides this random green color :P

Thanks Matlab!!

Hurricane Joaquin

According to Google Maps, the eye of Hurrican Joaquin is currently 1243.48 miles (or 1,175,923.77 smoots, which is 4,377,049.6 cubits) from our sukkah:

Also see, Hurricane Wilma, the first post on the blog from just about ten years ago!!!