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Enjoy.</h1><div class="prose prose-stone dark:prose-invert prose-a:no-underline prose-a:hover:underline prose-a:font-normal prose-blockquote:font-normal"><a class="" href="/2025/12/statistical-mechanics/"><p class=""></p><blockquote><p>Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.</p></blockquote><p>―From “States of Matter” by David L. Goodstein, Chapter 1.</p><p></p></a></div><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Saturday, 06 December, 2025</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2025/10/book-roundup-39/">Book roundup, part 39</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Includes <i>Empire of AI</i>, <i>Crossroads of Ravens</i>, <i>The Tainted Cup</i>, and <i>A Drop of Corruption</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Sunday, 26 October, 2025</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2025/08/knee-replacement/">Four months of a new knee</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Recovery from a total knee replacement is a bit of a bear, but so worth it for a person with chronic pain.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Tuesday, 19 August, 2025</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2025/03/book-roundup-38/">Book roundup, part 38</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Includes <i>Dark Wire</i>, <i>The Crusaders</i>, <i>Dominion</i>, <i>The Mercy of Gods</i>, <i>Livesuit</i>, and <i>Weaponized</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Sunday, 16 March, 2025</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2024/10/long-haul/">Long-haul flight tips from a grizzled veteran of the air</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">A few tips that might make your next long-haul flight less terrible.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Thursday, 17 October, 2024</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2024/05/book-roundup-37/">Book roundup, part 37</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Includes <i>Doppelgänger</i>, <i>Be Useful</i>, <i>Rose/House</i>, <i>System Collapse</i>, and <i>Empire of the Wolf</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Saturday, 11 May, 2024</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2023/11/book-roundup-36/">Book roundup, part 36</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Includes <i>Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing</i>, <i>Extremely Online</i>, <i>Number Go Up</i>, <i>Mercury Rising</i>, <i>The End of the Myth</i>, and <i>The Big Break</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Friday, 03 November, 2023</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2023/08/trip-report-2023/">Trip report to Sweden summer 2023</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Nic has travel experiences and wishes he thought he was immortal like other people apparently do.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Thursday, 24 August, 2023</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2023/07/airports/">Airport vibes are bad and you will feel bad</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">I have a ten hour layover at Chicago O’Hare and it’s terrible.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Wednesday, 12 July, 2023</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2023/06/book-roundup-35/">Book roundup, part 35</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Includes <i>Hello World</i>, <i>A Frozen Hell</i>, <i>Powers and Thrones</i>, <i>Dead Country</i>, <i>Blitz</i>, <i>The Hope that Kills</i>, and <i>Worth Killing For</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Monday, 05 June, 2023</div><div class="prose prose-stone dark:prose-invert prose-a:no-underline prose-a:hover:underline prose-a:font-normal prose-blockquote:font-normal"><a class="" href="/2023/05/it-is-the-folly-of-too-many/"><p class=""></p><blockquote><p>It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.</p></blockquote><p>―Jonathan Swift</p><p></p></a></div><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Tuesday, 02 May, 2023</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2023/03/electric-cars-are-fun/">Electric cars are fun, dammit</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Let’s talk about how fun it is to have a go-cart people mover.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Friday, 10 March, 2023</div><div class="prose prose-stone dark:prose-invert prose-a:no-underline prose-a:hover:underline prose-a:font-normal prose-blockquote:font-normal"><a class="" href="/2023/02/i-cant-believe-what-you-say/"><p class=""></p><blockquote><p>I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.</p></blockquote><p>―James Baldwin</p><p></p></a></div><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Saturday, 04 February, 2023</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2022/10/book-roundup-34/">Book roundup, part 34</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">We pour one out for <i>The Expanse</i> and Sandman Slim, and we raise our glasses for a sequel to Malazan. Also, an extra-bleak Holocaust tour and a discussion of how cults control their members through language. Includes <i>Cultish</i>, <i>Nein, Nein, Nein</i>, <i>Driven</i>, <i>Happy-go-Lucky</i>, <i>The Nineties</i>, <i>Fargo Rock City</i>, <i>The Scholast in the Low Water Kingdom</i>, <i>King Bullet</i>, <i>The God is Not Willing</i>, and <i>Leviathan Falls</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Sunday, 30 October, 2022</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2021/09/book-roundup-33/">Book roundup, part 33</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Why your body hurts, lots of politics, and some truly demented grimdark fantasy in this installment. Includes <i>Reign of Terror</i>, <i>Evolution Gone Wrong</i>, <i>The Cruelty is the Point</i>, <i>How to be a Liberal</i>, <i>The Splendid and the Vile</i>, <i>Deep Work</i>, <i>A Desolation Called Peace</i>, <i>Black Stone Heart</i>, and <i>She Dreams in Blood</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Monday, 06 September, 2021</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2021/05/watching-mash/">Watching M*A*S*H in a pandemic</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">You never know how a creative expression will affect you.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Tuesday, 18 May, 2021</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2021/02/book-roundup-32/">Book roundup, part 32</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Includes <i>Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)</i>, <i>Pappyland</i>, <i>Backstory</i>, and <i>Medallion Status</i>.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Saturday, 20 February, 2021</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2021/01/hummingbirds/">Hummingbird Dog Fight</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Hummingbirds fighting for dominance in a Phoenix backyard.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Saturday, 09 January, 2021</div><div class="prose prose-stone dark:prose-invert prose-a:no-underline prose-a:hover:underline prose-a:font-normal prose-blockquote:font-normal"><a class="" href="/2021/01/the-best-way-out-is-always-through/"><p class=""></p><blockquote><p>The best way out is always through.</p></blockquote><p>― Robert Frost</p><p></p></a></div><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Friday, 01 January, 2021</div><div class=""><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold pb-2 pt-4 hover:underline"><a href="/2020/11/learning-english-from-your-tv/">Learning English from the TV</a></h3><p class="prose dark:prose-invert">Alex Trebek was one of the people who welcomed Nic to America, many years ago.</p><div class="pt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-200">Thursday, 26 November, 2020</div></div><div class="text-l pb-8 pt-8 flex gap-6"><div class="basis-1/2"></div><div class="basis-1/2"><div class="font-semibold hover:underline text-right"><a href="/1/">Older posts &nbsp;»</a></div></div></div><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold hover:underline pb-4"><a href="/archive/">To see all posts, visit the archive</a>.</h3><footer><div class="lg:flex gap-6"><div class="basis-1/2"><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold">About The Core Dump</h3><div class="">The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.<br><br><a href="/about/" class="underline">Read more about this site and Nic.</a></div><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold pt-4">Contact</h3><div class="">Nic loves email! <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6907000a05291d010c0a061b0c0d1c041947061b0e" class="underline">Send him one, why don't you?</a></div><h3 class="text-lg font-semibold pt-4">Archive</h3><div class=""><a href="/archive/" class="underline">All the posts. 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