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October 23, 2005
Our electrician, Walter Nowicki (yeah yeah, he should get a wiki, haha) replaced an old plug and thought I might want to blog about it. He’s right.
The house is about 100 years old. Walter guesses the plug might be 60 years old…
[Tags: trivia]
October 11, 2005
Ian promises to teach his readers how to tie a shoelace in a third the time. (The flipbook version is particularly helpful.)
October 10, 2005
My life as a spatially challenged American
It’s my brother-in-law’s birthday today (Happy birthday, Joe!), so I was deputized to print out a card for him. I do this for many of our relatives’ birthdays since I’m the one in the family who uses PowerPoint. So, I wrote up a simple card with printing on the front, a fold, and then printing on the inside. You know, a card.
Q: How many tries did it take me to get this printed right, with the right stuff on the cover and the right stuff on the inside?
A: Eight. And by “right” I mean that it opens backwards, like a Hebrew book. I gave up.
Amusing fact: By the time I got to the eighth and “right” version, I had flipped the text for both pages upside down. [Tags: PowerPoint idiocy]
September 27, 2005
Our 14-year-old son has come through his arthroscopic knee surgery well. The surgeon was very pleased. (She’s also amazingly kind.) Our son’s problem was bilateral osteochondral media femoral condyles, or at least that’s what I copied out of his case file. Possible that was the solution, not the problem. Possibly it’s the new type of martini sweeping the medical bars. In any case, they drilled holes in his bone to stimulate the flow of blood in order to take care of the bilateral osteochondral lesions (or, in lay terms, “chilled with a twist of lemon”).
He’ll be on crutches for six weeks, and then six weeks after that he goes in to have the other knee done. If it works, he’ll be able to dance again in 6 months; the doctors had forced him to stop doing almost all athletics — he was taking 5 dance classes a week — for the past year.
By the way, if you click on the photo, you’ll see a more detailed view. See if you can spot what his problem was!
September 25, 2005
Susan Crawford has put together one of the most delightful five minutes I’ve spent on line in a while. [Later: The brilliant Flash work was done by Nicholas Kaye at MentalDefective.com.] [Tags: SusanCrawford multimedia]
September 21, 2005
In Finland, you can design your own postage stamps. Just don’t tell the Boobs4BourbonSt guy. In fact, don’t tell me.(Thanks to Juha Jokinen for the link.)
[Tags: philately]
September 20, 2005
EthanZ reports on the not-so-amusing piracy that steals 850 tons of rice intended for tsunami victims. Talk like a pirate? Sure. Steal food like a pirate? Not so funny. [Tags: TalkLikeAPirate EthanZuckerman tsunami]
September 13, 2005
The Berkman Center has a new rule for lunchtime sessions that are being podcast: No potato chips will be served.
Apparently, last year the sounds of bags opening and chips crunching drowned out the conversation.
What’s next? No slurpy soda drinking? No rustling from corduroy-shod thighs?
September 7, 2005
Let’s repeal the Law of Unintended Consequences to see what happens.
September 3, 2005
This post-flood satellite image has one-meter resolution. (Note: It’s a BIG graphic.) [Found at www.Reddit.com] [Technorati tags: katrina]
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