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Archive for “November, 2007”

whore-pasta

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

We tried a new recipe. Pretty quick and very tasty, and Bryan liked it even though it was full of olives. It’s a good sauce to make on Monday and eat all week. Spicy, tangy, delicious. Pasta Puttanesca Ingredients 1.5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil 2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 cup black olives, such as Gaeta [...]


ilove

Monday, November 26th, 2007

One of my favorite things about the iPhone is that if I take a photo with the phone and assign it to a contact, it shows me a full screen-shot whenever they call me. (Yes, the bells and whistles are still awfully impressive to me, probably due to my use of an antiquated Nokia until [...]


must be still for 2 months

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I feel like a python that just ate a deer. Thanksgiving is a beautiful holiday.


facebook

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

So I finally broke down and joined facebook, waaay after it was cool, and then some of my actual current friends joined, so that embarrassing pictures of me could begin to surface. And then, all of three weeks later, facebook went and got all freaky and sinister with the advertising. Why can’t someone just make [...]


question

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Can you snap better with you non-dominant hand? Why is this?


FINE, more CS in schools

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I’m a big proponent of more art and music in secondary education, but I’ve never gotten quite as excited about the idea of more, say, programming classes. So I was at work today and this happened: =VLOOKUP($B$182&”-”&”All Students”&”-”&”Below Basic”&”-”&$B$185&”-”&$B186&”-”&D$9,DataRange,2,FALSE) It’s just basic Excel. But still. Somehow I ended up being responsible for such things. So [...]


LA

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I flew down to LA for the day on Monday to attend 2 hours of meetings with this client (I can’t believe I have clients). It was the first time I’d been there since I was learning to teach 8th grade in Watts, and I’d forgotten what a weird collection of people it attracts. On [...]