Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_03

    Monday was a holiday so this was a short week. I like those 😉 I had a dentist appointment on Tuesday. uh oh. I have a little cavity; they're gonna drill it & fill it next week 😦 It's very small but they said it's better to fix now than wait & watch. Sigh. We… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_03

    Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words. These are my Treasures for the past week. Continue reading

  • Men, Women, and Web Services

    You've probably heard the statement that when it comes to communication, men are from Mars, while women are from Venus? A concept straight from the title of a book by John Gray, this highlights an idea made popular by Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand) in 1990. When men and women try to communicate, they… Continue reading

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  • Skin Printer

    Scientists at Manchester University's School of Materials (in the UK) have developed a printerthat prints… skin! Using the same principle as an ink-jet printer, experts are able to take skin cells from a patient's body, multiply them, then print out a tailor-made strip of skin, ready to sew on to the body. The wound's dimensions… Continue reading

  • Comment but nofollow

    First it was graffiti on walls. Then it was junk mail,. In the "information age" it's junk faxes and an increasing torrent of undesirable offers in our emailboxes. In the past year, there's been a major increase in the volume of a new kind of graffiti junk spam — weblog comment spam (ich). Comment spam… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_02

    It rained heavily early in the week, then settled for being mostly grey, except for Wednesday which was gorgeous. There was frost on the rooftops on Wednesday and blue in the afternoon. On Thursday morning we had heavy fog. Friday and Saturday were just grey. We went to a talk at SLAC on Monday, then… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_02

    "Life … is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" — Margot Fonteyn Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few… Continue reading

  • IT & Tea – Weblogging Presentation

    I attended a presentation on weblogging today. Rich suggested I attend as he couldn't promise a properly complete recap 🙂 Speaker: Terry Huwe – Director of Library and Information Resources- UC Berkeley It seems everywhere you look these days, people are talking and thinking about Blogging. But just how relevant is Blogging? Is it just… Continue reading

  • Three Centuries of Science in the Kitchen

    We went to a talk yesterday by Harold McGee, Author of The Curious Cook and the recently revised and updated, On Food and Cooking The kitchen is a laboratory of applied science. Food preparation has played a role in the development of science, and scientists have influenced everyday cooking for better and for worse, from… 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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