OK, this is going to be straight to the point.
I got an email from my father this morning, asking me to verify it. It made some amazing claims about Obama, and I couldn’t resist. It was such a shocking bunch of claims, that I decided to write up a reply, and send it to everyone […]
Q. Why is it when you steam or wilt fresh spinach you get that iron-tinny taste? How do you prevent it?
A. We’re guessing you have been cooking your spinach in an aluminum or unlined copper pan. Pans made of aluminum or unlined copper react with the sulfur compounds in green vegetables to create unpleasant odors […]
I saw Max Payne last night. Overall, it’s an okay movie. It wasn’t boring, it wasn’t slow, and we stayed entertained the whole time. Cool CGI and camera stuff also. But, there was too much that broke the suspension of disbelief for us. I mostly think it was the dialog and the fact that it […]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Matt Williams’s presentation on Ruby and Arduino, here are some videos, slides, and notes from the ORUG site.
You absolutely must check this out. The field of robotics is going to play such a massive role in all of our lives over the next few years, and this is […]
Just got back from this month’s ORUG, where Matthew Williams gave a presentation on using Ruby to control an Arduino. Matt is a very natural speaker, and the presentation was great. He even demoed a bartending robot he built, which should be featured on Make very soon.
I took notes during the presentation, and they are […]
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I RAN 6 MILES. NO, REALLY.
I’m very entertained by this because I have never, ever been what I would consider a runner. But, I’ve been running a few miles here and there lately, building over time, and this past weekend, I ran at the Disney 10K Race for the Taste. Effectively non-stop (minus walking during […]
Last weekend, I saw my first-ever interpretive ballet. We got tickets to the opening night of Don Quixote at the Bob Carr Center in Downtown Orlando. Now, I’m not the kind of person who ordinarily would go to an interpretive ballet, but I still had a good time, despite not understanding most of it (and […]
Last weekend I had the pleasure of dining at 3030 Ocean, which is a hotel/beach club on Ft Lauderdale beach. Normally I wouldn’t think much of a hotel restaurant, but this one was really good.
There was an appetizer of clams in a spicy lemongrass broth, which was great. I normally prefer living in the 100K+ […]