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HikeDb - Seattle, Zipcar
Mostly for my personal use, but perhaps beneficial to other Seattleites with Zipcar memberships ( Read more... ) -
Linux citation manager?
I'm looking for a good Linux citation manager, a la Endnote, for dealing with tons of biology citations. There are various choices out there, but no clear consensus as to which is best. Has anyone here dealt with a Linux citation manager that they've liked particularly? Ones that can export to, say, BibTeX would be great, but I'm just looking ( Read more... ) -
Lunch, L'Espalier (Restaurant Week)
My stepfather and his secretary invited me to join them during Restaurant Week this summer for lunch at L'Espalier, a high-end restaurant in Back Bay along Boylston Street. The menus for lunch for RW are either two- or three-course; this was a three-course, for $20.09 a head plus $7.50 each for wine. I was quite tempted to take pictures, but ( Read more... ) -
Donating for cancer research
Quick question for the lj-folk. I'm interested in donating money (not a lot right now, for obvious reasons, aka poor grad student-hood, but more in the future) to support cancer research through one of the usual foundations. The two that come to mind are the American Cancer Society and the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure. Both of them ( Read more... ) -
More food, courtesy the garden
Because I am a foodie and I love my garden, I will inflict you with additional food delights. SJ and I made this one last night from the leftover arugula (I tore the plants out of the garden in preparation for another planting, since they were no longer productive) and a few beet leaves carefully trimmed from our beets.
Sweet arugula-beet green- ( Read more... ) -
In Which Produce Produces Noms
SJ and I wanted to do something with our huge zucchinis. And the leftover d'Anjou pears. So yesterday we had an amazing culinary adventure ( Read more... ) -
My garden, it bloometh over
Peas are nearly done - dry, dessicated plants, with single short pods of fat seeds waiting to be plucked and eaten. I'll cut them down tomorrow and replant for the fall harvest. Beans are still going strong, despite each plant being only about the size of a skull (sorry, best scale I could think of on the spot); I'll replant between those, and ( Read more... ) -
Summer trip #3: Backpacking, Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA
In less than four hours I will board a bus that will take me from my house to downtown, where I'll catch an Amtrak Coast Starlight train to San Jose, CA. Upon reaching San Jose Friday morning, I'll be picked up by cyberjack; I'm meeting up with R and Y and we'll drive together with Y (who will then drive back alone) to Mammoth Lakes, CA (300 miles away), ( Read more... ) -
"Friendly" nocturnal visitors
Sitting in bed this evening reading Wikipedia, I saw movement on my floor (very sharp peripheral vision, which I keep training to be sharper, and it pays off!). A quick look established the presence of a large spider on my floor, the body perhaps 11mm, the legspan in total about 1.5". I quickly grabbed a glass plate from my bed and got it over ( Read more... ) -
Door to Door discount, anyone?
If anyone is planning on doing any moving this summer, I have a Door to Door discount code ($50 off of storage, $100 off of moving, and moving cross-country was $1800 for me) that I'm happy to share. Drop me a line, or comment here, and I'll forward you the email.