Yes, we do.
Here’s what it looks like:
Three different kinds of cereals. In their decanters.
Yup, that’s part of putting the groceries away. Milk on the refrigerator shelf. Bread in the bread-box. Bananas on the banana hammock.
And cereals, of course, decanted. And the empty boxes discarded.
It seems that most people don’t decant [...]
Gina and I were registered to hear Malcolm Gladwell speak in New York. The evening didn’t go according to plan.
Traffic was heavy on the way in — we figured there was probably a Yankee game backing up the Cross Bronx onto the George Washington Bridge. We might have made it if we [...]
Eric Raymond has popularized the Ghandi quote (”First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”) in the context of the open source movement. Danny O’Brien had a great keynote at OSCON on this topic.
I was thinking about the parallels of the open source [...]
When I was in junior high, I had a class called Problems of Civilization (today it would probably be called Social Studies). One of the things I learned was that the Roman Empire collapsed because of plumbing.
You see, the word plumbing comes from the Latin plumbum which means lead; plumbing was made of lead. [...]
We’re in the process of getting only three children off to college this month. (Our household style and usage guide requires the use of the modifier only in any phrase that enumerates children.) Consequently, the “growing up” meme has been circulating vigorously. Into that ferment, the monthly insurance statement arrived. [...]
If I weren’t working, it would be a vacation!
In Adobe Illustrator I type the word copyright into the search box in the Help Center. The page that results includes the following paragraph:
This product includes either BISAFE and/or TIPEM software by RSA Data Security, Inc. This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptosoft.com). This software is based in part on the [...]
In 1996, when we bought the playset pictured in the background, it came as a pile of pine treated lumber, and some plastic bits. It took most of the summer to build the thing. (Yes, that’s how Gina talks on the phone. It’s a family habit.)
Corey was 6. He was in [...]
I got back from Boston, and there was a package from Apple.
It was (another) copy of Mathematica.
Academic Edition.
After three separate progressively less cordial conversations, I made (another) trip to Kinko’s — this time to send a return and await my refund.
Plan B involves trying to purchase a non-academic edition direct from Wolfram.
Gina and SKaRey [...]
My copy of Mathematica arrived yesterday. Yay.
Today, I sent it back. Boo.
Here’s what happened.
I ordered it on May 28th from the Apple store. 2-day shipping. Yay. Then, I got the bad news — they couldn’t ship it on the original estimated date. It would ship on or before the [...]