Three Days Well Spent

A few weeks ago, Giulia turned eighteen. As a birthday gift, she asked for a skiing weekend with me. Our family’s precious little thing has traditionally been spending the Christmas week skiing in the Alps. We haven’t gone as much as we’d like in recent years, so I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled that she wanted to celebrate adulthood at our special place with her dad. We left home Friday at five in the morning. At ten, we were on the slopes, admittedly feeling a little lost without the rest of the gang. We quickly got into the right mood, though. We spent three glorious, precious days together. We can rarely spend time together, just her and me, when in town. This morning, I walked on the beach thinking about those three days and pondering how lucky a dad I am. Her birthday gift turned out as an invaluable gift for me. ...

March 20, 2022

School assignments that count: simulating the COVID outbreak with the C language

Giulia got an exciting assignment from her teacher: Write a C program that simulates (a simplified version of) COVID outbreak spreading across a population of 200 people. When a healthy person comes into contact with a sick person, the healthy person becomes ill, too. After some time, a sick person will recover. A recovered person cannot infect a healthy person nor become sick again after coming in contact with a sick person. ...

April 5, 2021