The copy/pasted/validated word count came in as 50,198… …but that was a story without an ending. So I plowed ahead and tacked on an ending that kinda/sorta worked well enough1 and used Scrivener’s word counter2 to get my new “completed” word count of 52,520. So yeah… Go me! Thanks to everyone that was understanding and/or […]
Apple document details Target Display mode for 27" iMac at tuaw — makes me think that I shouldn't bother getting an external monitor for "the home office" and just upgrade to this guy next year and use this instead… (tagged: iMac Apple hardware wishlist ) Advanced Plugin Development with Ext JS Great piece on developing […]
Beverage Company McKinlay And Co. Drills For Vintage Scotch Whiskey In Antarctica at cbs5.com (via B²) — I wish all news stories were like this. It has everything! (tagged: whiskey conservation Antarctica environment history news ) Pasadena Yoga Some linky love for a friend's yoga program down in MD. (tagged: Maryland yoga friend ) Hacked […]
If you’ve been keeping track, we are (as of typing this) past week three and into week four of NaNoWriMo. According to their little widget, there are eight days left in the writing sprint. I’m currently claiming 45,058 words committed to the manuscript. To put it into perspective, that’s about: 5 days aheads of schedule […]
Odd Man Out. Why isn’t anyone else taking paternity leave? (tagged: parenting essay ) 9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them at Nettuts+ — just keep reminding yourself (tagged: webdev IE debugging work ) A bug’s dance at The University of Chicago Magazine: Arts & Sciences — “Julia Oldham’s artwork is inspired […]
Friday the 13th. I am 13 days into NaNoWriMo and have hit that weird spot where the hours don’t all match up in a given day any more. I apparently picked a hell of a year to give a crack at the contest again. Whew… A few observations at this point in the writing sprint: […]
This is the recipe for vegephobes, for the folks (like me?) that do not otherwise care for Brussels sprouts. We are participating in the Food Basket CSA this winter and this was in our first basket. I’m not a fan of Brussels sprouts but I’d also never had them fresh before. So we decided to […]
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee at The Oatmeal — I love this design. (tagged: coffee design visualization ) Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Coin Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together […]
October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 at Ars Technica — possibly the worst, most mis-leading graph of all time but if those numbers are accurate, at least the conclusions are great news (tagged: IE Firefox stats ) Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way’s Center? at Scientific […]
Following up on the September post (“advise me: enhancing storage“)—we went ahead and put a shiny new 1 TB Western Digital hard drive 1 into Malkovich, effectively quadrupling the storage (re this particular problem) and paving the way for a lot more life out of this ol’ iMac. The idea for this particular upgrade owes some […]