I was visiting my great grandmother (Nennie) in Portsmouth, NH, and my Uncle Jon was there, and he and I went out to the local bakery and brought half a dozen eclairs back for dessert.
I was maybe 8 or 10 at the time. Somewhere in there.
And I had one, and it was delicious. […]
I love, love, love Kindle books and the iPad. Two great tastes that taste great together. However, the does seem to be a trend I’ve noticed with screenshot images in technical books. To be fair, this seems to be an issue from the publisher side of things, and not an endemic Kindle issue, as the […]
An experimental analysis of the song “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” by Pat Benatar, digitized from a 45 RPM vinyl single.
This experiment was entered into to find if sampling the vinyl disc at a higher rate (by slowing down the input to a digitizer at the same sample rate) and then resampling would […]
So, you may have heard the Star Wars Blu-rays are coming out in a couple of weeks.
After the last of the prequels came out, I was annoyed at Lucas’ clumsy storytelling, and… well, with those and the Special Editions, it felt like a cheapening of some great movies that I loved from my childhood. […]
NPR just did an exhaustive survey of their readership to form a list of their readers’ top 100 science fiction and fantasy books of all time:
I decided to look through and see what I’m missing. Surprisingly, I’ve read very few of these. I suspect that’s because the vast majority of my sci-fi ingestion […]
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Entertaining overview of a fun premise. A bit euro-centric (the history of the beverages is mostly discussed as they enter the history of Europe and, in Coke’s case, the USA, regardless of when they first came on the scene in a global context), but the origins of all of the beverages are at least covered in a cursory fashion. This seems meant as an entertaining narrative, and not a complete and exhaustive scholarly tome — you have to pick a point of view if you’re going to tell a story, and this one worked great.
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If your VW is having trouble and you need to find out what those cryptic DTC codes mean, here’s the place to look, for posterity.
Related: looks like I have a big car repair bill coming. 🙁
