This site is constantly under construction, and is mainly a repository for some of the projects that Astoria Bob is engaged in. Feel free to explore the pages that are linked in the hamburger menu above, and enjoy! Expect some new stuff to appear in 2025, as Bob continues to explore all sorts of topics, with some focus on getting easily-readable web versions of scientific literature available to the masses. Here's an example of the sort of stuff on the site: a one-page calendar (2025 edition) that Ethan Siegal developed to explain why the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian calendar, and some of its quirks in his BIG THINK blog. Bob converted the clunky-looking image in the blog post to an HTML table and added some color for interest. With more code, this hopefully will be turned into an interactive calendar app that you can use to see the calendar on your phone or watch and do calculations with it. Stay tuned!
| 2025 | Jun | Sep | Apr | Jan | May | Aug | Feb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec | Jul | Oct | Mar | ||||||||
| Nov | |||||||||||
| 1 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 29 | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 2 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 30 | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 3 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 31 | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon |
| 4 | 11 | 18 | 25 | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | |
| 5 | 12 | 19 | 26 | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | |
| 6 | 13 | 20 | 27 | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | |
| 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
To use the calendar, choose either a month, date, row of dates, or day of the week, and triangulate to get the information you seek. For instance, if you want to know all the Fridays in August this year, just go to the orange column with Aug in it, move down vertically to Fri and read off the row of dates – in this case, the answer is 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 and 8/29. As another example, if you wanted to know what day of the week Christmas comes on this year, go to the orange column with Dec in it, find the light yellow box with 25 in it, and triangulate to Thu in the white days of the week section. Super cool!! Thanks, Ethan!
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