I was scanning my stats in this new WordPress world, and noticed that my older, incomplete post on diamond lace knitted in the round for a little hat has a lot of hits. Whatever, must be from ravelry users… (more…)
December 10, 2008
October 30, 2008
If you’re not a Socialist, you’re antisocial!
My goodness maglev PRT is an astoundingly stupid idea.
October 28, 2008
javascript thing
I can’t find the bookmark to the original source for this on my home computer, and anyway the bookmark that I thought worked on my work computer seems to be out of date. So, here is the shell of how I start javascript programs. Your mileage may vary.
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September 29, 2008
Falling knife
In real life, I caught a falling knife I knocked off the table two weeks ago. But it was a butter knife. On the other hand, I did grab it by the handle and amazed myself and my daughters at how fast my reflexes are. (more…)
September 24, 2008
Wacky Ideas
So I was writing an email and considering the different strengths of Transims/Matsim vs a microsimulator, and I wrote that Transims can help us analyze big policy questions like what if we replaced all of the freeways with bike lanes. (more…)
July 27, 2008
off to Gabi
off to Gabi for two weeks and a bit. Goodbye cruel world, hello worrying only about what to eat next.
July 21, 2008
learning italian again
Really difficult to find an Italian talk stream. Closest I can get is http://88.191.56.36:8190, but every little while you get sucky english language pop.
July 1, 2008
sigh of the alpaca lips
Finally found a posting on the internet from the SF Exploratorium on the story Ladle Rat, Rotten Hut. They even have an audio of someone reading it.
April 18, 2008
Up at 5
Well, I woke up today at 5am due to my on-going spring cold. Then Farfalla jumped on the bed, so I figured I’d may as well get up. Made myself a cup of tea, played with the cat for a few minutes, then sat down and decided to log into WordPress, and lo and behold, there are massive upgrades here.
Well, massive isn’t likely the word. All changes are incremental.
My original reason for starting this was to see this wysiwyg editor in action. I still hate that Emacs keys aren’t supported (control e doesn’t get me to the end of the line, control k puts me up in Firefox’s search bar, etc), and now it appears that the “Its all Text” plugin doesn’t recognize this as text, so I can’t pop up Emacs to edit this.
I’m not sure I like the “Its all Text” plugin, but it is annoying to see that I don’t have the option to use it. Something to think about as *I* shove these fancy editors into web pages.
Joined Ravelry. Not sure what the fuss is about. What I want is a tool to design patterns. Perhaps I’ll write my own.
March 19, 2008
Asking for trouble
I experimented with tags, but suddenly noticed that my spam went off the charts. Considering comments on this web log are few and far between, it was pretty shocking to see the spam tick way up. And now that I’ve removed tags, I seem to have ticked back down to my usual obscurity. (more…)
