Holy fuck.

I randomly encountered this behavior while testing something entirely unrelated, and googled around until I found some evidence that this was a known issue:

Quoth Matz, the creator of Ruby:
> "string ".gsub(/\s*$/, 'P ( Read more... )

OK, so in _Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies_, Douglas Hofstadter describes a computer program that contemplates analogies between transformations on letter strings and picks the ones that are the most satisfying ( Read more... )

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Using blogger? Watch your gadgets.

... but I could be wrong.

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(1) regyt has some wool laid out on a towel top of the chest freezer. I just reached into the freezer to get some lamb stock, and it struck me how apt it was that I was reaching under lamb wool to get (boiled) lamb bones ( Read more... )

We use Mediawiki to manage our recipes, and we highly recommend it. As we've cooked increasingly complicated dishes, we've started to change the way we organize our wiki. We now have recipes which are composed of subrecipes using a template that some people on #mediawiki helped me put together. When I was putting together the prep list for this ( Read more... )

I don't think I have your snail-mail address. Comments are screened.

Vote rm in the elections. There are only three users who have a serious explicit commitment to freedom of speech in their platform, and rm is both the best and most popular of these. My second and third choices are hopeless, so my ballot is effectively truncated.

This is one of those cases where I would rather that jameth, a non-serious candidate with ( Read more... )

I'm presently reading The Lost Steersman, the third Steerswoman novel by Rosemary Kirstein. It's going to be impossible to explain the awesome bit without minor spoilers for the second novel, so I'm not going to bother. I can't even give you the bare conclusion, because it will give you the entirely wrong idea about the book.

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I got udon for lunch today, and realized that I would have to add it to the list of foods (chocolate mousse, baby back ribs) where mine is so good that it's not worth ordering at restaurants.

Or maybe this was a bad restaurant.