Pen refills

Totally for my own reference.

Yesterday at our company all-hands meeting, we all got a pretty cool rollerball pen with a Hauser 707sf refill in it.

Upon Googling (gerund!), I found out that Schmidt 888 refills are compatible and that the “International Standard Size” is very likely also compatible.

Links I found for representative refills:

Monteverde Fashion Fun Colors [...]

Metafilter post about getting to know Baltimore

I posted rather a long comment (as kalessin) there.

Securing WordPress a bit better…

Inspired by a burst of intellectual energy (if not a physical one), and by this post, I went through and did the various work still to be done:

Disallowed crawling by search engines of the blog’s ~/wp-* directories.
The search.php issue is no longer of concern in the theme I use.
Made lots of blank home pages in [...]

Finally fixed something about my theme/plugins I wanted to fix

To make the reCAPTCHA stuff more explicable, I finally figured out one place to put text that helps explain it.

In line 46 of recaptcha-wordpress-2.7/recaptcha.php, I replaced:

<div id=”recaptcha-submit-btn-area”></div>

with:

<div id=”recaptcha-submit-btn-area”><font size=”2″>Please enter the two words you see above in the blank text box and click submit to submit your comment.</font></div>

Plague rhymes with fatigue

Most of the rest of the symptoms are now gone, two days after the main draught of sickness is gone. But I am left with a huge, yawning fatigue.

I can do simple things, like get myself a meal reheated or a sandwich made, or put the case back on a couch cushion after washing it. [...]

Lexicon Game – Interested?

About two and a half years ago, I created and ran a game of Lexicon, based on a fictional account of the decipherment of the Voynich Manuscript. The game got to letters O & P before we stopped playing due to player unavailability and lack of interest. It was a lot of work, but I [...]

Plague lifting

We went to southern California to visit H’s Mom and husband, and to see the lay of the land.

It was a good trip, I thought. I did get an extra bonus plague for a homecoming gift, though. I only managed to make it into work 1 day this week (Wednesday). Thankfully I didn’t have the [...]

In which I continue to be a gigantic geek

A co-worker asked me for recommendations on math/physics books/resources for her gifted and talented son, who is in the 7th grade and starting to study calculus and physics.

Here was the off the top of my head answer (though I had to look up URLs and prices):