O Internets:

Assume that I have a spreadsheet in Excel whose cells take the values of -1, 0 or 1. I would really like to do some conditional formatting: that is, to tell Excel: "If the cell equals 1, color it red." Does anyone know if this is possible? It certainly should be.

I counted how many of my 76 livejournal friends post with any frequency these days. For the moment I'm ruling out webcomics and anything else with an LJ feed ( Read more... )

In line with my well-documented habit of getting into albums roughly a year after they come out, I've been listening to tracks from the Horrors' Primary Colors recently. (Given that I don't listen to the radio or follow the music blags that closely, a year lag is both not that bad and handy for sorting the wheat from the chaff.) I ignored this ( Read more... )

I take woodworking classes at the Eliot School in JP, right? So, a few weeks ago we had a professional photographer in the shop, taking photos for the catalog. It's always a little amusing when this happens. The consistent problem is that photographers find people working with hand tools to be more photogenic than people working with big, scary ( Read more... )

When you eat organic, locally grown vegetables almost exclusively at home, you quickly learn that some pests are just plain difficult to get rid of without massive amounts of extremely scary insecticide. Take worms on broccoli, for example; or, better yet, take the larva of the Helicoverpa Zea moth, better known as the corn earworm. These tenacious ( Read more... )

I returned from nine days of academic conferences back on Tuesday evening. Wednesday through Friday I spent catching up on email, typing up notes, requesting copies of papers and so forth. Saturday morning The Girl and I met nearby and paulienomial to help them move from the Back Bay to Jamaica Plain. To their credit, they had 90% of their apartment packed up ( Read more... )

What happened in the last month ( Read more... )

I've been noticing a bad tendency in me toward forgetfulness and scatter-brainedness (I know that isn't a word) over the past few weeks. I'm also shifting gears in terms of my research, and about to start that thing where you have to hold the contents of a lot of shit in your head in order to get any work done on it ( Read more... )

O Lazynets ( Read more... )

You might remember that, about a year ago, I proposed a hope chest based on the old Chris Craft power boats:


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