I watched Iron Chef America tonight. Iron Chef is really big on fresh seafood, and that often means “still alive.” Tonight one of the langoustines bit Iron Chef Bobby Flay as he was tossing it into the pot.
I was doing a database task for someone in another department, and I had to ask him a question. I have known him for years, but did not recall his phone number. I found it in the official online phone book, with the title:
Jedi Knight Programmer
(He really is very good).
The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
I have already ordered it.
I started homeward from the bus stop on my bike and quickly realized something was badly wrong: This was being way too hard. Continue reading
I will derive. Via Slashdot.
FYI, I loved calculus, although the TI calculator in the video did not exist when I took it.
Some of colgaffneyis members are at John O’s, down near Winona for a project weekend (“Johndevous”). John has a very impressive shop and invited anybody in the group to come down there to work on their own camp projects. I decided not to go. I have a shop of my own. John’s shop is better than mine, but not enough better to offset the hassle of driving to Winona and camping there. Also, here I do not have to share the tools.
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Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony
New study in The FASEB Journal shows how and why molecules released from burning incense in religious ceremonies alleviate anxiety and depression
Sadly, in general the Episcopal churches in Minnesota do not use incense nearly as much as those in Chicagoland.
By way of Dvorak Uncensored and this post in episcopal.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 