Grrrr. Public libraries rarely ever have the books I want. I still don't have a Netflix account, but if one were started for books - even, or especially, with library-style borrowing constraints - I would get a lifetime membership NOW. We have ILL, this ought to be possible.

You'd think I would have done this all of a piece at some point before, sometime in my decade or so of increasing involvement in professional web development, but I just, JUST installed a web server and am building a new site more or less from scratch without needing to spend much time poring over anything. (The time was spent figuring out what ( Read more... )

Botany student: The petal on this Z. aethiopica measured nineteen ( Read more... )

I cannot unpack my moving boxes without a CuteOverload-spoofed "Rehab" infesting my brain. It's a good thing I've started to like her voice.

They tried to make me go to boxhab
but I said no, no, no

Just signed up for the LED Display class tomorrow at Resistor. :D

Pursuant to my last post, garpu and I have proposed the Lolcat Tarot ( Read more... )

I has an Arduino starter kit, and some photos of giant flowers made from solar panels and pink transparent phthalate-spraying dildos. The latter were probably the most photographed items there, so I'm not sure why I bothered ( Read more... )

I tried making Sierpinski cookies, but did it wrong and didn't recurse the cane properly. Don't think I would've had enough dough, anyway, since it seems to need about 2/3 again as much dough for the outside as for the center. Bah.

They still look tasty, and arjache's suggestion for using baking chocolate worked well ( Read more... )

The planaria like centipedes just fine, but they LOVE little bits of raw lamb.

Little gluttons.

(dymaxion cooks a delicious lamb reduction sauce - Ari tested, Lapsang approved.)

Not going to feed them for a while after this - I'm just looking for a temporary food source while the worm question gets sorted. Or soon they shall number more. Lots and lots

Just fed my planaria a centipede I dug out of the landscaping this morning.

Gathering ball of tiny flat brown OMNOMNOMNOMNOM in evidence. Others who haven't yet figured it out are doing that decidedly catlike head-waving thing.

Starting to attract the attention of human kibitzers too. Whee!