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You know what they say about Borsch. “Beats soup!” Seriously folks, I learned a little something today. It goes something like this: When you put hot liquids in the blender (like, for example, soup that you want to puree down to a smooth texture), it’s important to not fill the blender more than halfway. When . . . → Read More: Borsch A panda was practicing Panda style kung fu, with rooftop scrambling and river swimming through an urban area. I say, go panda! The guy on NPR was describing the day: “Muggy,” he said. “Warm, wet, damp, foggy, heavy, hot, humid.” Then he started going to town: “Sultry, here in New England. Positively torrid. Swampy and overall uncomfortable.” I love listening to any radio station where they will occasionally use words like “torrid.” Is it a bad sign that I’m already listening to Tool, at 2:30pm on a Monday? Usually this takes until at least Thursday or so. Today is beet day. I’m making pickled beets. I picked as many beets as I could stand out of my garden, and got the rest of the required volume from the grocery store. Beets require serious love. Not only do you have funny bright red stains all over all your cutting boards and skin, plus . . . → Read More: Broken spice condom! Just a quiet evening at home, reading the Harry Potter. I lost, so redmed has it first. I’m consoling myself by reading book 5 again. They go quick, the characters are lively, and the humor is British. Went to a place called “Purgatory Chasm” with some friends today. Lots of rocks to climb around . . . → Read More: Harry Potter Did the monster run again. 7 miles, plus a mile cool down. The plan was to run the full eight, but it didn’t happen. Seven is apparently my limit these days. That’s okay. Seven is a good number. When it cools down and I get used to running again, we’ll see what happens. This is . . . → Read More: Sore My brain becomes less functional when it is very warm. It is very warm today. I am working on beastly difficult code: A script which writes scripts which in turn, create scripts which (sometimes) write tiny little scripts of their own. I’m using constructs like: if ( \$defs->_interface_standout ) { print SCRIPT \”open (STDOUT, . . . → Read More: Warm I’ve been crowing a lot about the high points in my life. I figure I’ll go ahead and share a frustration: I accidentally “upgraded” my laptop to OS X Server on Tuesday. This was terrifyingly easy. Usually, Apples will tend to be irritatingly careful. The more lethal a particular action, the more times you . . . → Read More: In which I share my hatred of computers Anyone know where the “-machines” argument went in MPICH 1.2.7? I was sort of using that, and now it appears to be gone. How else am I supposed to loosely integrate with my queuing system? I used to write a file of the allowed nodes, and then pass it in to mpirun. What the . . . → Read More: MPICH question |
