That is, abroad from the point of view of Bohemia. I am actually in Berkeley, but I have my laptop with me and I am writing this in a coffee shop using the public wifi. I guess that counts as young and hip these days, although if I were truly young and hip I would have some fancy Macbook instead of stodgy old Vista. Mr. Philena is sitting across ( Read more... )

Mr. Philena and I have been rediscovering the beauties of Tilden, our regional park. We have also been cooking. Which pictures would you like to see first? For the homebodies, click on the link labeled "for homebodies," and you will see images of domestic cookery. For rugged outdoorsy people, click on the link labeled "for rugged outdoorsy people" ( Read more... )

Wow. I'm getting awfully bored with vacation, and apparently the way I deal with my boredom is to make pie. I posted pictures of the apple pie already, but I have since then also made a butternut squash pie (it's just like pumpkin pie, only with butternut squash. Very good. I think just about any kind of squash would be good in that setting--except ( Read more... )

It isn't so much the chance to travel and see alligators, although that is, I admit, very nice. It isn't so much the opportunity to travel and see family, although I like them too. It's the chance to relax on the couch and read--gobble, actually--the two newest Juliet Marillier books with a cup of tea, and go to the UC botanical gardens with Mr. ( Read more... )

Traditionally, my family gathers in Florida with my paternal grandparents for Christmas. This would have been the first year I took Mr. Philena with me, but he, being who he is, thought that it was foolish to be so close to a national park without taking a peek at it, so we left a few days early to go to the Everglades! The whole way there, he was ( Read more... )

The more I work on this week's assignment, the more sense little v makes. I thought it was entirely pointless in Jason Merchant's class, but I see exactly what problems it solves now. Pity I can't use it.

Oh, my goodness. I love LaTeX so much!

Edit: Wow. LaTeX really does not like me to put footnotes in my example lists. It crashes in a really, really big way. It crashes so bad that I have to close the program and re-start it without saving any changes before it will even deign to tell me that it encountered a fatal error when trying to build the ( Read more... )

Dude! I'm using LaTeX! I'm writing my syntax homework on it! I've got three pages! It has a title, and an abstract, which I managed to re-label "homework summary", and I have a table of contents and section labels and numbered examples with glosses, and I even have funny letters! Like å and ø! And when I run it so far, I don't have any errors! (er ( Read more... )

So my 5-year old college computer has decided that its "system voltage battery is low," and it tells me this whenever I turn it on. A call to Dell reveals that this is a problem with the motherboard battery, which was only supposed to last two years. It makes me fell pretty good to know that, because I made it last five years! But it's dying now. ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned recently how much I love graduate school? Here I sit, typing on my new laptop,* in a magnificent UC Berkeley library reading room which, although it does not quite rival Harper in terms of magnificence, certainly surpasses it in the matter of not driving you crazy with the humming from the fluorescent lights. I came to this reading ( Read more... )