Oh boy. After a couple of wasted hours of futzing I was finally able to fix the column width issue. All was not lost, as a basic understanding of CSS/HTML is a good thing to have in the toolkit these days. A few debugging tips: Use the Firebug Firefox extension. Look for the largest containing [...]
I keep hearing about this problem of communicating with people in the future about dangerous radioactive waste storage sites. My solution to the problem is to make the sites as desolate and unremarkable as possible. Given our natural curiosity, putting up elaborate structures seems like more like an invitation than a prohibition, even if those [...]
Last year Anastasia and I went as undecided Ohio voters. This year we’ve chosen a more subtle muse: I now own a pair of overalls. And a pitchfork.
Sifting through my Akismet spam filter today I noticed a number of comments in Cyrillic. Clicking the associated website links led me to Russian language default themed WordPress blogs. It seems like splogs are easy to identify, even when written in another language. [Aside: Even though I'm 99% sure these are spam blogs, and so [...]
Paul Krugman thinks this is about healthcare. I think it’s about how Princeton’s endowment is like, totally fubar. Second, I’m sort of surprised that a Nobel prize winning faculty member is subjected to this kind of bureaucratic letter campaign. I sort of thought the no-questions-asked benefits would have come along with the free prime parking. [...]
My spot analysis of the FIFA final — the US simply does not have the depth of a top flight national team. Brazil’s substitutions were strategic and effective. The US simply lost the advantage.
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper Dance Think LP, My Dear Disco Biennale Processing (for example)
Ann Arbor is much more the pure college town than Austin with its differing communities of state capital affairs and high technology shadow to San Diego. The University of Michigan spreads spider-like over this place, and while perhaps not much larger than the University of Texas whose limited perimeter is more a function of the [...]
Our new living room furniture arrived today. I used to find the old school sales model really tiring, but in this day of almost entirely anonymous commerce, I found going to a big store and getting help from a real live salesperson refreshing (including some marvelous price bargaining by Anastasia, try doing that online). When [...]