One day I was walking home with a tote bag of groceries and cursed the foolish designers who made the straps just long enough for the bag to drag on the ground ( Read more... )

Six months ago I went on a paleo diet. I wish I'd been blogging about it the whole time, because now there's so much stuff built up that every time I try to write about it I get bogged down and give up. The diet (by which I mean "approach to nutrition" as opposed to "ill fated crash-weight-loss plan") is easy to describe in essence, basically "eat ( Read more... )

Does anyone here have trouble converting between Fahrenheit and Celsius? I used to try, and get my brain stuck in a jumble of 9's and 5's and 14's or maybe 40s. A few years ago, I realized that was because when I learned the conversion in school, they taught me the formula without teaching me what it meant (like so many other things! ask me about ( Read more... )

Steve came over tonight to hack, but mostly he and mike discussed the stock market. I'm helpless, though delightedly entertained, in the face of their domain knowledge and analytic complexity. But then they started talking about distributions of investor outcomes and how you could determine whether a given individual (in this case, Warren Buffet) ( Read more... )

I can do turns now (sometimes)!

Thanks to qmrf, antiquarian, and hearth_spirit for giving me the straight dope on turning and balance. adogsbreakfast came by while I was riding back and forth (likely heard me saying "yeeee!" and "yikes!") and helped me figure out the gears.

Had my second practice session with the bicycle today. boberone has been kind enough to let me borrow his bike while I learn how to ride. I'm doing what motive_nuance and much of the internet suggest: Put the seat all the way down and scoot around with your feet as if it were a footbike. This lets you get the hang of balancing while keeping your feet close enough to ( Read more... )

I want to learn to ride a bicycle, and then buy one, and then ride it ( Read more... )