It looks like the startup company will probably be located in Gibsonia, which is either 18 mi / 38 minutes from me on Route 8 or 30 mi/ 36 minutes if I backtrack to Monroeville and take the Turnpike. Neither way is particularly subject to rush-hour traffic, but Route 8 can be stop-and-go simply due to the traffic lights, and I don't relish the idea ( Read more... )

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The latest plot thread in PhD has been the graduation of Mike Slackernary. The most recent comic has him about to turn in his dissertation. I'll be a little freaked out if Mike and I graduate on the same day.

Zoe likes collard greens. I made some last night and she followed me around the kitchen until one fell on the floor. She snarfed it down, then spent a couple minutes licking the floor. While we were eating, she sat and stared at our plates. I eventually gave her a small bowl of them, which she finished, and then a second (maybe 1/2 cup total). When ( Read more... )

My LaTeX code has a number of macros that define boldface versions of various letters I use frequently in equations. One of these is \Bs. It would be much cooler if \Bs were a macro that automatically filled in several pages of technical sounding ramblings. Instead it just prints s.

Sigh.

Wed. 3/28, 1:30 pm in NSH 1109

"45 women out of 50 say that girth is very important. So be important for women with Penis Enlarge Patch."

That's one I haven't heard before.

Some random notes about LaTeX and Excel, which might be useful to you. LaTeX and I have a love hate relationship. You might already know these suggestions if you're cooler than I am.

Importing tabular data from ExcelCutting and pasting of course won't work. On my Mac, cutting and pasting results in tab delimited rows containing the raw Excel data ( Read more... )

Headlines from the past few weeks. Some of the mental images they evoke are... curious.

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Gallery: Old man winter dumps on Cupid (CNN)

God, Darwin clash again in Kansas (Reuters)

"I know I'm going to die", says man in icy pond (CNN)

Dolphins saving the world one fin at a time (CNN)

Gender and relationship norms pop up in strange places sometimes. For instance, the Kohler Overflowing Bath. The idea itself is a little strange - it's a tub within a tub, where the inner tub overflows into the outer. The tub does recirculate the water, but this isn't exactly an environmentalist's dream. First, the tub is huge. Really huge. 275 ( Read more... )

Those of you who watched Superman in HD at my place, what did you think? Personally, I'm less wowed by HD than I thought I would be. It definitely looked better, no question, but I didn't find myself getting excited about the image quality. I liked Superman fairly well, and I can't imagine I would have liked it less on DVD ( Read more... )