My learning process and things I’m learning right now. Not to be confused with “how people learn” or the general study of learning, which would also be pretty interesting.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
And for me. Somewhere around this point every winter I'm at a total loss for meals. To answer Kiersten's question (what do you eat for dinner?) and my own (what on earth do we eat now), this time ... I've roasted a squash and cooked a lot of garbanzo beans. I made some lime and sesame oil dressing and some tahini sauce. Sunday, squash / miso / mugwort udon / scallion / hard boiled egg (loosely based on a recipe); carrot and chickpea salad with lime/sesame dressing. We got some turkey sausage at the farmers market, so we have to use that soon, too. Monday, Possibly sausage spaghetti, or else butternut squash and garbanzo beans with tahini sauce. Tuesday, leftover mujaddara (caramelized onions, lentils, short grain brown rice) with yogurt. Wednesday, see Monday.
Still down (the dinner blog) but last night I was lured (under false pretenses, but it's cool) to Brooklyn Kitchen for a panel, not on radical grocery stores (that was the false premise) but about grocers, generally. First it was dull. Some stats on farms and farming. Specialty food ...
Taliah wants to bring her website straight through the aughts and into this decade. We were going to write a book, a ten year anniversary of BicyclePaintings.com and I was going to contribute an essay about how much has changed since I whipped together an html template and showed ...
I've been working on a project called Nutshell, a sort of proof of concept. I could write up "occupywallstreet" but I don't think it rises to the occasion. I might write up something about Travellers, since they seem to be making the news here, but there's more parsing than background to it, because of course, the history of most Gypsies is one of eviction. Note: Travellers aren't Romani. Still: call them travelers and then tell them to hit the road. For now: Travellers facing eviction from Dale Farm gipsy camp have their own homes in Ireland - (Telegraph). I'm trying to decide how much and how often Nutshell makes sense.
We're using a wholly unwholesome new database system to manage our CSA membership. (I didn't pick it.) And one thing it doesn't do is generate invoices? Confused? I sure am. Without getting too deep into the puzzle of how you build software to manage CSA shares that can't generate an ...
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