Re: Happy 80th Birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin

whump — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:01:40 -0000

Yipe! Thanks, love. I think I managed to mangle the title up with "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity," damned strings messing with my brane.

Re: Happy 80th Birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin

Cynthia — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:40:43 -0000

It's Four Ways to Forgiveness, darlin'.

Re: Blogging Verisimilitude

kellan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:18:19 -0000

Oooh, good catch on the Salon/Userland, I totally missed that.

Re: Paying for Social Networking

Ener Hax — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:38:39 -0000

interesting post and i will head over to read her views on adverts. it's a tough go. a little person like me runs some google ads and makes a little each month (little means very little - i make more with people that use my second life link to set up an account, comes out to about $7.61 per new paid account)

the ads that end up running on my blog are all over the place because my content is all over the place. fallout shelters, which i talk about a lot, attract some interesting ads (at least my zombie paranoia is only in second life . . . well, for the most part)

i suppose that ads on blogs reflect more on the perceived value the readers of that blog portray. i use dooce.com as my poster child example. she writes a post daily and has McDonald's are her one big sponsor. in fact, it may be the only ad. but that brings her $40K a month (lol, not Lindens, the real USD)

another blog i use as example is doshdosh.com, mainly for those looking at how to monetize their blogging efforts. Maki (at doshdosh) writes very informed and helpful posts on everything from affiliate programs (like threadless which will pay you like $4 or 5 for any t-shirt sold via your ad) to how to blog effectively

i'll go to her post now and check out Dreamwidth. it's a neat name and I want to see how it compares to hosting your own blog. thanks for the interesting read =)

Re: Congratulations, Miroslav

D. Potter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:56:33 -0000

I didn't know Satan was with the Penguins these days!

(No, I'm going to leave that sentence just like that.)

Re: Cynthia’s Published!

shiva7663 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:01:39 -0000

This is just to say that WisCon is one of the conventions I have just got to see one of these years....

Re: Ada Lovelace Day 2009

ericafirment — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:27:12 -0000

I am proud to work in a place so rich with smart nerdy women. Strata is, indeed, legend. Thanks for the shoutout to the ladies Whump!

Re: The GCU “He Hates It When You Call Him That”

Cynthia — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:49:29 -0000

That's as good an explanation as I can come up with. I would question the type of humor that Mind has.

Re: Ada Lovelace Day 2009

kith — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:02:45 -0000

Meeting Strata at Potlatch was a real treat. I can see why you have such good things to say about her.

Re: Mark’s Tarte Tatin

Mark — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:49:32 -0000

Get good cooking apples. Ask at the market. Something older (genetically I mean). Peel and core them and cut them into good sized pieces - a medium to small apple in quarters, large apple into 6ths.

Cook them in a saute pan with plenty of butter and sugar at a medium heat for some time. It depends on how juicy they are. The idea is that you'll cook out all of the water and then cook in the caramel. This could take about 30-40 minutes. Not too hot. Don't burn the caramel. Keep the heat lower if your stove top is fast.

Meanwhiile prepare a sheet of puff pastry. You should really try to make your own. It's worth it. There's a "quick" recipe in the 2nd Volume of The French Chef by JC - her not Him. Instead of the classic manner you mix the butter and flower together into coarse meal and then chill the rectangle. Then you do the classic rolls and turns. It's really worth it. Just keep it cold and let rest.

Okay, once you have your puff pastry rolled out into your circle or square pierce it with a fork in the area where the apples with sit and then brussh it with an egg glaze. Bake it till it's done.

Okay, now take the warm apples and arrange them nicely on the cooked puff pastry.

It's sort of a deconstructed tart tartine. But what's good about it is that the apples are done and rich with the caramel and pastry is done and crisp and a little waterproof due to the glaze.

I also say that you should gild the lily and serve it with a creme anglaise, which you can make a day earlier. Also, invite friends and loved ones. It's so much tastier with others.

Re: Skewering “Thrift Chic”

Shelley Powers — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:07:10 -0000

PS Spansion is an example of the worst of the corporate mentality -- which is why we need to become less dependent on a**h**** employers like it. Sorry for your friends.

Re: Skewering “Thrift Chic”

Shelley Powers — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:05:12 -0000

Just starting Frugal Algorithm, and being unemployed and pretty much on the edge of losing everything, I don't agree with Levine -- or at least, I think she's conflating two different views of the same set of events.

No, unemployment, bankruptcy, foreclosure are not good. But becoming more self-sufficient, less dependent on the market, more environmentally aware, more _frugal_ isn't counter to the best interests of the global economy, either.

Re: Skewering “Thrift Chic”

Joe D — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:00:37 -0000

This Spansion?

http://www.statesman.com/blogs...

What a bunch of dicks.

Re: DOM 3 XPath in Web Kit

geecu — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:11:32 -0000

I've tested it (FF and Safari on Mac), //div[@class="class"] is about 20 times *slower* than getElementByClassName. Maybe I was doing something wrong... have you tested it?

Re: Friends in Need

kellan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:52:26 -0000

Not to be difficult, but isn't that Lilo and Stitch?

Re: They only want to help

Bill Humphries — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:24:06 -0000

Given the choice of working at a Walmart or being a zombie, the cursed life of the undead sounds better.

Re: They only want to help

Les Orchard — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:13:35 -0000

I absolutely love it when things like this have the little tear-off phone numbers or email addresses, and there are lots already taken. Makes me wonder if they pre-tore some of them for effect, or if people are really responding.

Re: AI Strategies, the iPhone, and Go

Bill Humphries — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:12:25 -0000

iGo can record games.

Re: AI Strategies, the iPhone, and Go

skarat — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:06:28 -0000

has someone made a good go game recording software for the iphone?

Re: AI Strategies, the iPhone, and Go

skarat — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:05:08 -0000

http://goproblems.com is a java run go problem database worth checking out

Re: Planet Alyx’s Sweet Potato Tofu Hash

AlyxDellamonica — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:51:42 -0000

The tofu love is spreading! Hurrah!

Re: AI Strategies, the iPhone, and Go

jtauber — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:27:02 -0000

As I suggested a few months ago in http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/0... I'm surprised there hasn't been more effort put in to making Chess or Go programs that attempt to pass a Turing test rather than simply beat humans.

Re: “[A]meliorate the evils under which the country is laboring”

D. Potter — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:46:01 -0000

So next year is the 150th anniversary of this proclamation? Shouldn't someone somewhere be organizing a party? (NOT a hint.)

Re: Annoyances: “Free” WiFi

Earl Cooley III — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:11:03 -0000

Instead of turning off all Javascript, you should be able to configure the NoScript Firefox plugin to target the issue more precisely.

Re: Lois Bujold Reads from New Miles Book

kellan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:30:41 -0000

I *want* to believe, but Diplomatic Immunity sucked.

I think that well might be tapped. (though there are *lots* of stories to tell in the Vorkosigan Universe, its just Miles has reached his natural conclusion)

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