One of the things I most enjoy about giving out candy is deciding who to give what to. Teenagers in jeans, anyone wearing football uniforms, anyone talking on their cell phone? Rockets. Kids in homemade costumes, snowsuits, or out with their nannies? Chocolate bars. This year I also gave into requests for exchanges (almost invariably […]
Hello, Australians who read my blog! I am glad you enjoyed the no-knead bread which, alas, I cannot take credit for, as I got the recipe from the NYT. But it is indeed a lovely crusty bread and if I weren’t lazy as all get out, I might make it again.
There is not, as it happens, a street called “Saint-Jaque” in Montreal. Nor is the intersection between St-Laurent and St-Jacques a four way intersection. Nor is that where Notre Dame is in any case.
But hurray, an episode partially set in Montreal. I am not entirely sure how I missed hearing about that before.
An article today about how some researchers wanted to test how much impact X/Y chromosomes had on behaviour. So they created XY mice with ovaries and XX mice with testes and tried to teach those two, plus normal male and female mice, to find the door with food from a bunch of doors. The XX […]
Any recommendations for easy to use dvd slideshow software? I’m looking to be able to have a menu, so that I don’t have just 1000 pictures at once, and add captions to many pictures. I don’t intend to play music or do any weird effects between pictures, so it doesn’t need to be good at […]
I finally got everything on this computer set up to my liking (and getting the display to work was a huge pain), and was just going to fiddle with some scheduling crap, when my other computer suddenly returns. Which is wonderful, of course, because there are certain things (update itunes, play some games[1]) that don’t […]
My cold is worse today than it was yesterday, and I can’t breathe right so I cannot sleep right, but on the bright side, my screen resolution is right, and WPA works. (I’ve never been able to get WEP to work on XP computers, so I refuse to have my routers go WEP.) I know […]
I hate colds. My whole head hurts and my sinuses are blocked and I am coughing and I really, really, really hate having a cold.
After trying a half dozen things, I notice that the next Ubuntu release, currently available in 4 days, should have native WPA support. Currently I’m debating whether to try the release candidate (seems stable) or just suck it up for 4 days, when installation will be clicking one button instead of writing one line in […]
I’m really not doing well at the whole distracting. Hey look! Over there! I’m not madly unhappy, see? I am, however, doing very well at the avoidance, including the not bothering to contact people much. Who needs to talk to people? If I do, I might have to talk about myself. I can do it […]