By cdwan, on January 21st, 2006 Looking at buying a new car. Intimidated by the complexity of the process and the number of ways in which one can pay thousands of dollars. Picking the car isn’t hard. redmed will simply do her usual brilliant thing and pick the best one. It’s the money side of the process that’s worrying me.
. . . → Read More: Buying a car
By cdwan, on January 20th, 2006 The report is back, fully vetted, approved, and otherwise sanitized. It’s linked from the main page (http://bioteam.net) and is also available on my private server (http://cdwan.org:8080/Intel_final.pdf). Since we’re going to be looking at who downloads the thing from the corporate page, I thought it was the better part of valor to not have a pile . . . → Read More: Intel report, online
By cdwan, on January 19th, 2006
Blah, blah, Japan, blah, blah, global warming, blah FOUR HUNDRED AND FOURTY POUND JELLYFISH!!!!!!!!! blah blah, fishermen, blah
By cdwan, on January 18th, 2006 There’s an idea running through my little LJ community surrounding “guilty pleasures.” It’s been suggested that I participate. The idea as it arrived at my door was this:
Ground Rules: The first player of this “game” starts with the topic “5 Guilty Pleasures” and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about . . . → Read More: Guilty pleasures
By cdwan, on January 18th, 2006
This 22nd Century gadget is about half the size of your average deck of cards, sits wirelessly on any flat surface, and projects a red standard QWERTY-layout keyboard on any flat opaque surface. Using detection technology it “watches” your fingers hit the key locations it has projected, and then sends the keystrokes through to . . . → Read More: Wants it.
By cdwan, on January 17th, 2006 Canning my sauerkraut this evening. While I’m happy to share the beer experience with anyone who wants to come down, salted cabbage is still sketchy (and smelly) enough that I do it solo and late at night. This stuff has been fermenting in a crock for about two weeks. Cabbage and salt. Plus time. That’s . . . → Read More: The secret teachings.
By cdwan, on January 17th, 2006 On occasion I’ll link to something that I put up on the server in my basement. One advantage of doing this is that I can gather statistics and see who’s actually reading this junk, and who makes with the clicky clicky. Here’s what I learned:
I am my own biggest fan, by an order of . . . → Read More: Stats – or Who Goes There?
By cdwan, on January 16th, 2006 Valhalla, I am … well … actually I’m not going anywhere right now. In fact, I’m quite surprised and delighted.
Got my bill from Verizon, and it’s exactly right. Keep in mind that I made massive changes to my service, including the purchase of a new phone, removing several options, and adding several options.
. . . → Read More: VALHALLA!!!!!
By cdwan, on January 15th, 2006 New essay for the week is posted. Two for two weeks. Go me.
By cdwan, on January 15th, 2006 Since I’m having a low energy day, I’m playing with numbers again. The DOE energy conversion page still rocks my world.
. . . → Read More: Energy
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