Archive for January, 2008
Google Calendar
In: Collaboration| Good Stuff
28 Jan 2008Google Calendar has become my calendar app of choice. Because it is web-based, there is no client, or OS dependencies. It does a fantastic job of sharing and displaying multiple calendars. It also worked very well for me on the iPhone until, well, Macworld. It turns out the Google mobile crew updated [...]
ZingSpoon
In: Geek Finds| Good Stuff
27 Jan 2008From the ‘not a good idea’ department, the Zing! Spoon.
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- Tags: spoon, zing
Wood Bike
In: Good Stuff
26 Jan 2008This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen. A 16-year-old student built an entire bike out of wood. It’s incredible: chain, gears, pedals, the whole shebang, made completely out of wood! A few years ago slashdot posted about a bamboo bike (really just a bamboo a frame), but this wood bike is [...]
I was reading about Polenta in Marcella Hazan’s book, “Essentials of Italian Cooking” (available at the Deli) because I’ve always enjoyed grits, and polenta is like yellow grits. She has an extensive write-up on Polenta and admonishes that the best way to cook it is by stirring in an open pot for 45 minutes. I was [...]
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- Tags: cooking, grits, Ortiz, polenta
Monster Outlets to Go 3
In: Geek Finds| Review
19 Jan 2008Until recently I would end up in travel situations, that were otherwise going along swimmingly, sitting in frustration in a hotel room, or a friend’s guest room, trying to figure out where to plug in my various electronic gear to charge. Then I spotted one of these mini power strips from Monster called Outlets [...]
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- Tags: power, travel
Icky PVC Cement
In: News
17 Jan 2008We had a plumber come in and replace a piece of the sewer pipe running through the payroll office today. Surprisingly there was no sewer smell – just the overpowering smell of the PVC cement. Wow. It was so bad we moved the payroll folks out of their office and into IT, forwarding their phone [...]
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- Tags: health, office, PVC
Macbook Air
In: News
15 Jan 2008Apple has released a cool new aluminum cased laptop today, the Macbook Air. It’s considered an ultra portable laptop, weighing 3lbs with a maximum height of just .75 inches when closed. The Air will be available in two configurations, both of which with will come with the maximum 2GB of ram. The base model has [...]
Motion Mountain – open source physics textbook
In: Books| Geek Finds
14 Jan 2008Ran across this on Cool Tools yesterday – a free, downloadable PDF Physics manual written with skill and humor. And at 1500 pages, thorough.
How do objects and images move? How can animals move? What is motion?
How does a rainbow form? Is levitation possible? Do time machines exist? What does ‘quantum’ mean? What is the maximum [...]
IT Celebrates 5,000 Tickets
In: Good Stuff
13 Jan 2008A long overdue post…
In July, 2005 the IT department started using a help desk. The help desk lets us manage the requests that come in each day; we track progress on issues, communicate with clients, document solutions and share our knowledge. It’s a good thing, and I can’t imagine doing our work as [...]
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- John Reed: A cauliflower crust!?!? Do tell, do tell!! Sounds yummy! [...]
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- Billie: Oh geeeeeez Juleen! [...]
- juleen: This is a lot more fun-loving than the body parts bakery in Thailand. Creepy, yet amazing. Warning: [...]