• Moblog

    Makeup En Route.

    January 8, 2005 - By 

    Fisheye is not my best look. This is what you get when you’re putting makeup on in the car on your way to an event . Hey, at least I wasn’t driving.

  • Moblog

    Today I Am A Fountain Pen

    January 8, 2005 - By 

    We attended a friend’s son’s Bar Mitzvah today – at the very end, he and the other boy had to drink wine after a blessing. The faces he made: “Yuck. Bleargh. Nasty.” The cantor made him drink the whooole thing, and then some. In the photo, young Adam is greeted by the rest of his friends, who cheered him as he made his escape from the sanctuary at last. We have another event to attend tonight – not as happy a one, unfortunately. This is turning out to be a weekend of events, though.

  • Home Improvement

    This Blows

    January 6, 2005 - By 

    What a lovely day… well, now it is. The sun is shining. However, last night we got about 5 or 6 inches dumped on us so this morning I had to use the snow blower to get out of the driveway. David couldn’t do it because he had to get out quickly to get to an early meeting, and he’s got all-wheel drive. But I, in my trusty little Corolla stick, did not have the luxury or the horsepower to plow through the heavy wet snow at the bottom of the drive without firing up the snowblower first. It’s one…

  • Mini-Posts

    Folding At Home

    January 5, 2005 - By 

    This is important: What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease. Why? Because it is. I’ve got it on my computer, but hadn’t enabled it before now.

  • Blogs Wot I Read

    What Your Web Designer Is Thinking

    January 5, 2005 - By 

    Web designer Bloggermouth Ken imagines the perfect answers to clients’ questions: The Question: “Can you make our logo to zoom across the page when it loads? That would look really cool.” What I want to say: “No it wouldn’t, you fucking moron.” The Question: “Can you set up my used car dealership site to play the theme to ‘Chariots of Fire’?” What I want to say: “Sure!!” If only I had a Coke handy so I could spit it all over my monitor and demand compensation. 😉

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    I’m Grinnin’

    January 4, 2005 - By 

    Wow, I managed to implement that smiley project in one swell foop. 8) 😀 ="Very Happy" 🙂 ="Smile" 🙁 ="Sad" 😮 ="Surprised" 😯 ="Shocked" :confused: ="Confused" 8) ="Cool" 😆 ="Laughing" 😡 ="Mad" 😛 ="Razz" :blush: ="Embarassed" 😥 ="Crying or Very Sad" 👿 ="Evil or Very Mad" 😈 ="Twisted Evil" 🙄 ="Rolling Eyes" 😉 ="Wink" Powered by MT Smileys The instructions for doing it and an accompanying discussion thread are here. NOTE: There was a typo in the “Powered by” link – be sure to close the tag.

  • Books

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    January 4, 2005 - By 

    This book is getting all kinds of attention. I’ve just started it – I think I’m on about the second chapter. So far it reads like an agreeable, drily humorous novel by Jonathan Swift or Lawrence Sterne (it’s a lot like Tristram Shandy in tone and era, except with wizards). Nobody corresponding to “My Uncle Toby” yet, though.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    A Little Light Housekeeping

    January 4, 2005 - By 

    House G.O.P. Voids Rule It Adopted Shielding Leader Now that the elections are safely over it’s okay to repudiate that ethically shaky rule, which was the Congressional equivalent of dust bunnies under the bed. This post is to test the NYT Link Generator, as I’ve been avoiding linking to the NYT owing to their Subscription-required access Fee-based archives Crappy angle brackets used as separators So if this works well, I’ll be very happy to link to NYT articles, rather than just reading them.