Still some work to do this semester, but I’m already thinking about the break. We aren’t traveling, so I’ll be able to knock a few things off the do list. Such as:
start running seriously again
develop accessibility testing protocol
read like a madperson
update spring syllabi
install two replacement windows
continue painting the exterior (weather [...]
Erin and Madelyn and I made the short trip to Columbia, Mizzourah last weekend to hang out with Jeff, Jenny, and Vered. With two kids and crummy weather, we didn’t get out much. Besides, there was plenty of football to keep us busy indoors. Although we missed half of the Gator game because of UK-UT [...]
I have been grading; the last big push of the year. More on that in a separate post. (updated to add link
Erin and I worked on the house quite a bit the past few days while the weather cooperated enough to allow outdoor painting. I found some water damage caused by some idiotic flashing [...]
perl -pe “tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/; s/[\!\/\[\];?\’\”,\-\$\.\(\)]/ /gs; s/ +/\n/g;” < sotu2007.text | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > sotu2007freq.text
Context:
David Banash and I wanted to see what issues are on the radar at WIU, based on the content of Big Al’s State of the University speech. I pasted the speech content from the web to [...]
Our wayward Power Mac G5/2.5GHz returned to us yesterday morning, about six weeks after it failed catastrophically. So far so good; we’ve been synching our digital camera, getting caught up with our checkbook, etc.
About five days after we delivered the Mac to Trilutions, Erich pointed out this XLR8YourMac thread to me. Replacements! Optimistic, I called [...]
find . -name “*.AVI” -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch
Context:
cleaning up Erin’s Mac (more on that soon), I want to find out how much space is taken up by iPhoto movie files. iPhoto has crappy search features (read: none). So, cd ~/Pictures and then run the command above. (Answer: 26 GB.)
Explanation:
find by name [...]
We signed up for the give one, get one program from One Laptop per Child. $423 including shipping.
I can’t wait to get my hands on this sucker. Yes, Madelyn gets to play, too, but Daddy gets to test-drive it first. I’m interested to see what the SUGAR interface looks like; obviously connects with my interest [...]
About three months ago Madelyn got a pair of hand-me-down boots with Dora the Explorer on the side. “Dora!” she immediately squealed. Huh? We had no Dora objects in the house, no TV, and Madelyn hadn’t started attending preschool yet. But somehow, she knew.
Recently Erin started DVR-ing Dora episodes. I watched one the other day [...]
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Coffee or tea? Coffee.
Grade with pen or pencil? Pencil.
Oil-based or latex? Latex.
Cardio or strength training? Cardio.
Mac or Windows? Linux.
Jacket or suit? Suit.
Pie or cake? Pie.
Run/bike with or against traffic? With.
Boxers or briefs? Briefs.
Beer or wine? Beer.
Slacks or khakis? Slacks.
Read online or print? Print.
Shave before or after shower? After.
Whole milk or skim? Whole.
Staple or paper clip? [...]