Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

Special Interests

  • Teaching Tomorrow’s Employees Today

    In today's commentary, I discuss IBM's plan to "financially back employees who want to leave the company to become math and science teachers." Read my commentary Continue reading

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  • Happy Birthday to my Sister

    My sister is celebrating her 35th birthday today. That's not her age; it's a birthday she enjoys celebrating. Neither of us is quite certain how many 35th birthdays she's celebrated (although if we did the math we could come up with an answer 🙂 Please join me in wishing my sister a Happy Day. Continue reading

  • Day Trippin’

    We took a long day trip today (nearly 11 hours all told) to drive up to the North Bay for the Leopards, Etc fund-raiser and Open House. We were up by 8 and left the house a bit before 9. We headed up 19th Ave and bought toasted bagels with cream cheese & lox (and… Continue reading

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  • Carpe diem

    Today only… ThinkGeek offers Fundue™ – USB Desktop Fondue Set Here at the ThinkGeek offices we are surrounded by those traditional suburbia food traps. The typical crappy deli and the occasional edible pizza. So, we decided we would take desktop food culture into our own hands and created the Fundue™, a USB powered desktop culinary… Continue reading

  • Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You!

    Coming! This Fall! Wallace & Gromit Bigger than Life! The cheese-loving Wallace and his ever faithful dog Gromit star in an all new comedy adventure, marking their first full-length feature film. Go to the brand new Wallace & Gromit site for pictures and a video look behind the scenes. Continue reading

  • Fixed-width fonts

    I love fonts. I collect fonts. I especially love "handwritten" fonts. As a programmer, however, and constant email user, I need to use fixed-width fonts, preferably with easily distinguished characters. So how do I mix and match my love for handwritten fonts with fixed-width programmer's fonts? Take a look at some of the cool fixed-width… Continue reading

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  • Konfabulous

    I have discovered a delightful new desktop toy for my Mac. It's called Konfabulator. Konfabulator is "whatever you want it to be". Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks,… Continue reading

  • (Inter)national Chocolate Day

    September 13 is International Chocolate Day. September 18th is National Chocolate Day. Celebrate with the chocolate of your choice… I prefer a nice smooth semi-sweet. If you like a hint of coffee with your chocolate, try a bit of a Seattle Chocolates Pike Place Espresso Truffle bar – yummmmmmmmmmm. Continue reading

  • Cooking for Engineers

    I recently discovered a new site (thanks to slashdot, via Rich) called Cooking for Engineers. The site owner, Michael Chu, describes the site thusly: The recipes that are listed as "Recipe File" are the recipes that I use when I want to make a particular dish. "Recipe Test" are recipes that have been recommended to… Continue reading

  • The Return of Stuart Katt!

    I'm a big fan of Stuart Katt, a large, stripey, lino-block art feline I discovered many years ago. I have several t-shirts, a tote bag, and a set of greeting cards featuring the irrepressible and irresistible tabby. Some of my favorites in the series are "Cat Wants In / Cat Wants Out" (a double-print t-shirt),… Continue reading

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