Archive for March, 2007
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31 Mar 2007It calls out on a phone line a couple times a day and checks an email account for new photos. The mailbox is controlled with a whitelist of senders. A really great idea for those with no desire for a computer.
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30 Mar 2007Amazing research into three-dimensional photography. The best part is at the end.
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29 Mar 2007Final update: Because of head trauma that resembled a gunshot wound, a 2000 alum's suicide lead to SWAT evacuation of the building, and the cancellation of classes yesterday.
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29 Mar 2007
When M and I were recently visiting Denver, we ended up walking into Savory Spice Shop in downtown Littleton. Walking in the door, I was thinking it would be dull and quick. But they pounced on us.
"Feel free to open any jar and smell it. Next to the jars are tasteable sample bottles. Put whatever you want in your hands and taste it. If you think it's gross, just throw it on the floor."
And then we started smelling and sampling, and we were almost instantly won over. They had like ten types of cinnamon (and the cassia was labeled accurately!), six or seven different whole chilies, all kinds of rubs and pickling seasonings and mustards and whole dried herbs and extracts and some special salt-free blends. And several different sizes of garlic powder, including High Bulk Index, which is more densely flavorful and integrates in much faster. We ended up buying unbelievable Saigon cinnamon, smoked hot paprika (man, hot paprika is hard to find), and peppercorns. And thank god they sell everything online, because I can guarantee we'll be buying more.
I can also guarantee we would have been in and out in like 20 seconds if it wasn't for their brilliant tasting policy.
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27 Mar 2007mè and she= whee
she's hanging out in the basement until skinny and the gang are done with the bathroom, so they don't make eyes at her while i'm gone. -m
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20 Mar 2007
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19 Mar 2007I linked to Khoi's Yahoo Redesigns last week, but here's his SXSW presentation on his design techniques. I've heard this called the best presentation of the show, and I believe it.
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19 Mar 2007The hilarious Overheard empire expands again!
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19 Mar 2007Coding Horror is quickly becoming one of my favorite "running a website" blogs.
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18 Mar 2007Bathroom renovation work (before)
It starts tomorrow morning! Exciting!
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17 Mar 2007Teaser trailer and first game footage for Penny Arcade's "On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One".
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15 Mar 2007Cooperative fiction writing. Excellent fun along the lines of my long-abandoned "Meta-Stories" idea. (via Rob Kalajian)
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14 Mar 2007It seems like they could have done this by expanding the set functionality, instead of creating a new metaphor.
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14 Mar 2007
Famed Physicist Richard Feynman once joked that he wanted to memorize π up to the 762nd digit. Why? Because that's where pareidolia kicks in, and the digits appear to briefly coalesce into rationality:
3.1415926535 8979323846 … [727 digits] … 9605187072 1134999999 …He would end a hypothetical recitation at that point, the implication being that from there on the decimal repeats. Virtually everyone, obviously including Feynman, knows π is both irrational and transcendental, and thus such a fact is impossible. The so-called "Feynman Point" is the first incidence of six consecutive identical digits in π and it also happens to be the first incidence of four and five consecutive digits.
Happy Pi Day.
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12 Mar 2007Sickening, yet enticing.