Yesterday I tried baking some squash and apples. We had some pre-cut acorn squash around, I added apples and coated it all with some oil and syrup, topped with some brown sugar and walnut pieces. It turned out ok, but the squash was a little dry. Maybe I should have covered it or added water or something.

I have also been playing around with probability and cards. In particular, I’ve been looking at that Most Popular of single-player card games. I think I’ve figured out how many deck orderings lead to an entirely unplayable game, in both the draw-3 and draw-1 variants. I’ve found someone’s article where they have gotten estimates based on random sampling, but haven’t been able to find anyone with an exact number, which I believe I’ve got. I’m kind of pleased about that, and I’m in the process of writing up an article that I’ll probably put online eventually.