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Josh recently asked me what I was doing. As is often the case, I said, \”Oh, I\’m just coding.\” He responded, \”I very much doubt that.\” We came to the following conclusion: I never just code, but I always code for justice! Yes, the only reason behind this post is that \”justice league of coders\”…

This year I\’ve read every one of the Hugo nominees for best novel, and was excited in turn when each of them was published. Since April 2006 (via my book tracker), I\’ve read 10 unique books by Neil Gaiman (13 total readings), 9 by Charles Stross, 6 by Cory Doctorow, 5 by John Scalzi, and…

Well, I am quite impressed. Microsoft Office 2003 installed perfectly on Ubuntu using Wine 1.01. I would use OpenOffice or AbiWord (and I do, for some things), but their limited compatibility with Microsoft Office means that I can never quite trust formatting. I now have three installs of the same version of Office on this…

Funny what you come across while researching science fiction. This is from a 1957 article by Isaac Asimov: This has happened over and over again. Betty Grable (or Marilyn Monroe or Jane Russell) is a librarian or a schoolteacher (the two feminine occupations that, by Hollywood convention, guarantee spinsterhood and unhappiness) and naturally she wears…

Belated, I know. The pictures themselves were more timely. Then on Monday, Sarah made key lime pie while I was at work. It is delicious, and two pieces remain in the fridge.

It\’s raining, not snowing, but still. Pretty awesome. Never been in one of these before.

Ah, for the good old days when Usenet users would mention FTP downloads of their research paper in TeX format. Incidentally, I found this in a record of a famous flame war that occurred between Linus Torvalds (chief architect of Linux) and Andrew Tanenbaum (author of MINIX) in 1992 on the relative merits of monolithic…

Some bad things: When you are unable to sleep. When laptop battery indicator lights contribute to 1. When there are chocolate wrappers on your floor. When there are enough of 3 to be the most obvious solution to 2. When 3 is probably the biggest contributor to 1. When blogging becomes more reasonable than trying…

My computer is now triple-booted: Ubuntu 8.10, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. I did a fresh install of everything, just for kicks. I needed to back things up anyway. Everybody wins. And by everybody I mean me. I think I like Windows 7. The changes it makes are subtle, but effective. I am of course…

Off-the-cuff recipe for today: 1 can garbanzo beans (a.k.a. chickpeas) 1/8 – 1/4 C olive oil 2 tsp lemon 1/2 tsp cumin 1/4 tsp coriander 1/4 tsp chili powder 1/2 tsp salt garnish (chili oil, salt, ground pepper, cilantro) Drain the liquid from the garbanzo beans into a bowl. Pour the drained beans into a…