Egrets Moose roundup!
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I bought Borderlands on Wednesday after much soul-searching (I didn’t finish Fallout 3, which is in a similar market segment, probably because it was too creepy). Fallout 3 is Role Playing Game that is also a First Person Shooter. In contrast, Borderlands is a First Person Shooter that is also a Role Playing Game. Here are a couple of middle-term geeky purchases I am planning. This is largely for my own reference, but I bought this ungodly expensive 3M Privacy filter for the spare 21.6″ monitor that I own but am using at work, and I noticed that the one-time stick-on tabs that they provision you to help keep the filter properly placed on the monitor are one-time stick-on, and [...] How geeky am I? I promised my cow-orker/friend N that I’d post links for these in my blog for her son, so here they are. I am beavering away today, not just with housework, but at making the tables in my favorite Ice Cream how to book (that H got me for a birthday a few birthdays ago). There are many wonderful aspects to recommend the book, not the least of which is Chapter 9, “Chemistry of Ices”. In my quest [...] Some free advertising for CrushPad in SF. I happened to be surveying the market for quality hydrometers/saccharometers. Not for winemaking or beermaking (though aside from biochem suppliers, that’s where you have to look for them these days) but for ice cream and sorbet making. Turns out knowing the density of your mixture, especially in terms [...] Just so you know, when I’m not playing my new copy of Spore (thanks to H for giving it to me as a birthday present!), I watch these videos I recently found on YouTube videos about the Periodic Table of the Elements (by the University of Nottingham). These videos are extremely geeky and so are the [...] Just a short update. It turns out that even the venerable Peter Guttman (who proposed in 1996 or so that we use a 35-pass wipe according to a strict algorithm to protect our old/deleted data) thinks that with today’s storage and recovery technologies, only a few passes are now needed to protect us from snooping. I used [...] |
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