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For those of my readers who are into comedic romance anime, all one (?) of you, I present a review of Kimagure Orange Road. There are spoilers aplenty. I think the last two episodes of the TV series are quite possibly the most enjoyable ending to any anime series that I have watched. I'm still working my way through the Maison Ikkoku anime, though, so that might trump it.
I'm on twitter now: http://twitter.com/mwolson. I'd like to use it as a way to drive facebook status updates. That means posts will be in third-person present tense. I've added Twitter updates to my Website: About Me page. I like the look of having the list of updates be inside of a single-item definition list.
I am pleased to announce the release of Remember 2.0.
Remember is an Emacs mode for quickly remembering data. It uses whatever back-end is appropriate to record and correlate the data, but its main intention is to allow you to express as little structure as possible up front.
79f69e6188e4e084c9761b24ecb54b5cac9f41e3Instructions follow for those who track the source code using git. If you wish to track the development of Remember, visit <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment> for instructions and substitute "remember" whenever you see "muse" :^) .
This release has the signed git tag "v2.0". The tag points at a
commit object with the Commit ID mentioned above. To verify the tag,
do:
git fetch origin git tag -v v2.0
To check out the release, do:
git checkout v2.0
To switch back to the master branch, do:
git checkout master
Remember is now a part of Emacs 23, and will be included with that release of Emacs when it comes out.
The NEWS items for this release are available here.
My study’s methodology, reviewer one opined,
Was flawed because a crucial part was not made double-blind
And my biased expectations were a problem, I concede
Now I’ll follow where the evidence may lead...
I love that a hymn was written about the scientific method. It is such a deserving topic.
I'm trying to use Planner Mode again to manage my free time. Previously, two different things would cause me trouble. The first troubling thing is that tasks would pile up to the point where I would be discouraged from doing any of them. The threshold for discouragement seems to lie at right around 8 tasks on the plan page for the current day. The second thing is that I would prefer to mark email messages with tasks as important without adding them to my plan page, due in part to the large backlog of tasks.
I am taking several steps to try to solve this dilemma. First, when I think of something non-work-related at work, I immediately add a descriptive task for it on my home computer and stop pursuing it at that point. Second, when I start to feel overwhelmed by tasks, I reassign them to future dates so that they do not appear on the plan page for the current day. Third, if any task does not look like it is going to get done in a timely manner, email the parties involved to suggest a workaround (such as encouraging them to try their hand at fixing some bug themselves), and then move the task into a "shelved tasks" page. This ought to result in a fairly apathy-proof workflow.
I have thoroughly enjoyed some of the food here in southern California, so I thought I would highlight some of the things I've tried and liked.
One of the first things I tried was the White Pizza from the California Pizza Kitchen. I had previously tried that pizza purchased frozen from the store, and didn't care for it. Getting it fresh from the restaurant and having bacon added to it made a critical difference. It consists variety of tasty cheeses, a little olive oil instead of pizza sauce, salty chunks of bacon, and enough spinach to keep you honest. I've found that I like the pizza best when I let it cool to just above room temperature. This makes the spinach less noticeable, and gives the Ricotta cheese clumps just the right texture.
I've also been trying out some items from Pick Up Stix, since they allow me to order items online and pick them up on my way home from work. I didn't care for the Orange Peel Chicken, but the House Special Chicken was delicious. Their Cream Cheese Wantons, which have some green onion mixed with the cream cheese, are quite possibly the best thing I've had out here so far.
I have had good experiences at Tortas Mexico as well. Their specialty is the Torta, which can be ordered with different meats. It consists of lettuce, tomato, beans, mayonnaise, avocado, and jalapeños, contained between a sandwich roll. I never thought it possible to put mayonnaise on a Mexican dish, but the Torta can pull it off seamlessly. The Chicken Sopes (pronounced "So-pays") are also delicious.
While trying to figure out why my Apple Remote was not working with a USB IrDA dongle that I had recently purchased, I thought I had better check to see whether the battery in the remote needed to be replaced. After a bit of searching, I came across this article on Apple's website. It turns out that digital cameras which use CCDs can show infrared light as bright white. Just point the remote at the camera and start pressing buttons.
I immediately remembered the first few days of OLPC ownership and the
fun of playing around with the built-in webcam. I fired up the OLPC,
launched the Record application, and sure enough, a bright light with
some diffraction effects showed up whenever a button was pressed on
the remote. I was also able to point the camera at the adapter and
see periodic flashes of light, presumably due to irattach sending a
signal every second or so. I didn't see any change in the flashes
when pointing the remote at the adapter and clicking, however, which
was disappointing.
It turns out that my old TV remote also emits these flashes, so now I am thinking that I might try to use that instead.
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