Some Halloween costumes look better than others
November 4th, 2007Airfare discounts
November 2nd, 2007This showed up on BoingBoing a little while ago, and it looks like useful information to keep around.
Starting from scratch
November 2nd, 2007I’ve gone all-Mac at home, replacing my broken WinXP laptop with a MacBook Pro (as I mentioned earlier). I’ve also put Leopard on both systems, but I didn’t wipe the iMac before I did that. Maybe I’ll do that next time. However, for the laptop, LifeHacker has a post on what to put on a bare Mac.
Anniversary
October 23rd, 2007My iMac came home one year ago today. Now, I’m thinking about a MacBook or MacBook Pro to replace the laptop I killed recently.
Looky here!
October 23rd, 2007It’s the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.
And for more to look at, here’s a set of links to astronomical image galleries.
Mmmmmm…
October 22nd, 2007I do love mincemeat pie. It’s just about time to start thinking about Christmas baking, too – it’s been a couple years since I’ve done anything special for Christmas. Maybe this year I’ll finally get around to trying to make Christmas pudding, which has to be started about now.
Another song site
October 22nd, 2007Aaron Parson’s A Compilation of Sing-Along, Folk, & Rock Guitar Songs (with chords and lyrics)
There are 186 songs there at the moment, and you can transpose the songs and produce printable versions of them in different keys. Neat.
How can they not know this stuff?
October 22nd, 2007I took this civics test, and got the following result:
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly 93.33 %
Average score for this quiz during October: 70.5%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 70.5%
While I’m disappointed that I didn’t score higher (two of my four missed answers bother me significantly more than the other two), the fact that the school whose seniors placed highest only scored 69.56% is horrifying. In the breakdown of individual questions, you find that the question that received the highest number of right answers (“Which of the following are the unalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence?”) still had 15% wrong answers. How many might have gotten it wrong if the test were some format other than multiple-choice for each question?
One might get the impression that the sort of civics education I had in my childhood is no longer in vogue. Actually, given that I have a college-age daughter, I know for a fact that she didn’t have the same type of civics and history instruction I did.
And these are the people who will have to take our country into the future.
I’m waiting for the tunnel paint
October 21st, 2007… but these are good to have while I’m waiting. I wonder if you can fold or stack them for storage?
I didn’t know pumpkins came in a Skaros varietal
October 21st, 2007This is a cute idea, but it’s more work than I want to do for a Jack-o-lantern.
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