I have mentioned, in passing, my first attempt at sewing. I bought cheap cotton fabric, whose pattern I loved. I got a simply designed dress pattern. I took my measurements. I prepared to cut out my fabric–and I got cold feet. Suppose I had picked the wrong size? So I started to make a muslin. Click Here to continue reading.
The best part and main problem with Derek Lowe’s blog “In the Pipeline” are one and the same. After all, the blog is all about chemistry and the life of a chemist. For some people, reading about that subject is like watching paint dry. But if you have just a smidgen of intellectual curiosity, In Click Here to continue reading.
How can Spitzer freeze payments to hospitals and increase the coverage provided to the uninsured with out compromising their already poor quality of care?
The answer we are given is that he is going to reform how the money is spent which will produce all kinds of savings. As this article reports….
Spitzer, who was Click Here to continue reading.
Watch this japanese guy kick the other Japanese guy around. It’s a riot!
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More seriously, I wonder about how you would train for something like this. I gather from other videos and things I’ve read that they practice with inanimate objects beforehand. Still, everyone makes mistakes, and in this case the mistakes must hurt Click Here to continue reading.
I suppose I worry too much. But it is so hard to not worry when I see things like this….
It looks like logitech may have just come out with a universal remote that might be worth buying. Check out this review in the inquirer. It seems to deal nicely with the common flaws of universal remotes, such as unrecognised devices, complex programming procedures, and bulk. Now if only I had the toys to justify Click Here to continue reading.
I went to New York City once and I have no need to go again. The only things there that I had any use for was the USS Intrepid carrier and riding on the ferry (I was young then, you see). I can’t remember a time in my life when being in even a small Click Here to continue reading.
Today it was reported to me that Internet Explorer wasn’t displaying the Troll Cave or the Ape Man’s romping grounds correctly. The Troll cave only displayed one screen’s worth of text, and the way she likes to go on, I knew that they wouldn’t let me let it slide. After banging my head against it Click Here to continue reading.
The Dangers of Historical Symbolism
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
The study of history is the study of symbols. We cannot hope to study everyone who fought in one battle, much less everyone who ever lived. Instead, we must focus our attention Click Here to continue reading.
A Tragic Tale of Irreconcilable Perceptions
“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic”– Edward de Bono
It is a commonly known fact that the root of many people’s disagreements is the result of a difference in perception. Even if people have the same facts, the same amount of Click Here to continue reading.