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Rare, vaguely-good idea from a seminary
You can read about it in this blog post. Basically, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has a Homemaker course/track for women. Ok, I lied - this is a horrible idea that is misogynistic and degrading. However, if you were to trim off all the religious bull regarding gender roles, and crunch it down into only one or two classes, and make ( Read more... ) -
Knitting and Brains
I've recently taken up knitting (I knit Matthew a scarf, which he dutifully wore once and now keeps at his desk because he is not a scarf person), and I've discovered that what I really want to do with my knitting is to eventually make this:
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Photos of France mostly up
My photographs from France are mostly up. Now I still have to go through Iceland photos. There are already some gems though, including this one.
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Starbucks
Looks like the subject of one of my favorite photos from my trip to Beijing is going to be no more, since the Starbucks in the Forbidden City is closing down.
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Who needs VMWare?
Open source virtualization software + repositories for Feisty, Edgy, and Dapper = much happiness
VirtualBox's UI is very much like VMWare's, sans the nastiness with the reconfiguring VMWare every time you upgrade your kernel. Did I mention that it's free (for personal use, anyway)? Good performance too. -
Reading IR signals from your TV remote
glyf and I lost our TV remote and wanted a replacement to change the volume, the input settings, and to turn it on. We wanted a universal remote, but didn't want all the extra stuff like channels and whatnot. I saw this but alas, the product is no longer available even on eBay. So I'm was going to try to replicate it using Radioshack parts ( Read more... ) -
Growing things in a wind tunnel
Inspired by my friends Natasha and Nick (who appropriated a bit of green space near an MIT parking lot for their vegetable garden) I decided that I could use my balcony as more than storage space for my bike... if my bike hadn't been stolen. I went to Home Depot and picked up a lightweight planter, some dirt, and some vegetable plants. I've never ( Read more... ) -
A green tint
I've been looking at various ways to reduce energy consumption, etc. lately (ever since I received a huge electric bill for all the computers running in our apartment). Getting suspend to work on my desktops at home has been a challenge, and still fails sometimes. I haven't been able to get Wake On Lan to work reliably in Ubuntu at all ( Read more... )
