Writing on Lance Orner

Enumerating Every Cribbage Deal

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Claude and AI tools now make it possible to analyse problems that come up while playing cards at lunch. In Cribbage, given six dealt cards and you must discard two, what is the optimum play? Years ago, we thought about this problem, but running through all of the possibilities would take significant processing time. Now, I can do it in under an hour.

The below text is AI generated, along with the code. Just thought I’d get that out of the way. All of this came with my discussion with Claude Opus 5.0, and I had it work out the details. Claude is saying this better than I could anyway.

Green Tomato Pickle Recipe Card

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is the Family Recipe for “Green Tomato Pickle”, which is mostly used as a topping for a pot of beans. Sweet, vinegary, and a bit of cloves.

I went through some old files, and found the oldest family reference to this recipe, from Great-Grandma Box herself, and it’s dated 1917.

My PetRecipe for Green Tomatoe Pickle

Take 8 lbs. green tomatoes + chop fine. Add 4 lbs brown sugar and boil
down 3 hours. Add 1 qt vinegar, 1 teaspoon each of Mace, cinnamon, cloves, and
boil 15 minutes longer. Put into jars and seal. Good on meats and beans. From
Mrs. Scott at Trinity Center 1917.

Roby the Costerbot

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is from 2010. We were building little Adruino robots using CD platters as a platform. Sarah was fascinated.

When a Tree Falls in Stirling City

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

That time in 2013 when a cedar tree split and fell on the roof of my little house.