Welcome

Andre went and linked here, so I feel like I should at least tell you that I spend an extraordinary amount of time on Tumblr lately. We can talk about the politics of that if you'd like. I don't love them. However, if you want to know what I'm thinking ...

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We Have Bubbles

I've wanted a Soda Stream for ever. Unfortunately, they're insanely monopolistic -- the only reason you can't fill their gas canisters at any welding supply store is that they put boobie trapped valves on them -- and their plants are in settlements in the West Bank. So I decided to make my own.

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Lately

Forcing myself to learn R, Python, BeautifulSoup, Arduino, Portuguese.

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Wish List

Yak shaving, but who doesn't love that? Note: I realize this is possibly the worst organized collection of posts you've ever found. I often think I should straighten up around here, but I haven't done it yet. So do accept my apologies and think of this place as a junk ...

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Find folders with a lot of files in them

I like gnome-do. I know people who don't, but that's cool. However, gnome-do's files and folders plugin will only index 3000 files. It complains if it is indexing more than that, but doesn't offer any insights about why it is complaining. More exasperatingly, the error message says something like ...

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grub > _

J handed off his Eee to me today. He's studying for finals and also moving and his laptop choked. Machines always fail when you need them most: so back your shit up, okay? He said it was only booting to a command prompt, which isn't quite accurate. It boots into ...

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=SUMPRODUCT

I knew what I wanted: a way to define a "weight" column that would tell me how many times a particular pair of values appeared in my spreadsheet. I spent some time (a lot of it) searching the web using various sentences about frequency and counting. I read a lot ...

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Asparagus Quiche

Had a gin and basil cocktail the other night. I believe "aspirational" was the word kthread chose. Eventually, there will be asparagus. In California, there's been asparagus for a month already. 8 oz. Asparagus, washed, trimmed and cut into 1 1⁄2 inch lengths 4 lg eggs 1/4 cup milk (or whipping cream, if ...

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Ambivalence

Part of me wants to ditch this particular project. Part of me wants to push myself to write more. About slow gardening (get to know the dirt) and open newsrooms and (lately, again) games. But ... Tumblr. @embell said Tumblr is for people who don't like to write -- I'm ...

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Good Real Food

I'm slowly retrieving my posts from Good Real Food, as much for my own reference as anything. There are a few more that might just sit there: Bay Leaves from Montenegro Greek Butter Cookies with Sambuca (actually, that's pretty much it. If it is winter, eat cookies Cookies while ...

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