The existing stereo in the car has to go. It’s the stock Honda one, a simple tape deck with a radio, and it doesn’t work very well. We’re replacing it with a Sony CD/MP3 player rather than the Jensen I mentioned earlier. The Sony should have better quality; the Jensen had one [...]
This is Alton Brown’s recipe for quickly roasting a chicken. The NYT Food section had a similar recipe, though they didn’t name the cutting technique as “butterflying”. In this case, the technique is more interesting than the ingredients.
Broiled, Butterflied Chicken
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown
1 1/2 teaspoons black peppercorns
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon kosher [...]
Yesterday, I had the displeasure of installing Oracle 9i (9.2.0.whatever) on one servers in the collection of soon-to-be demo machines. Some comments about this:
1. There’s the years-outstanding issue of needing an X server to install the damn thing. In Oracle 7 days, and possibly 8.0, back before this whole silly “i” thing got [...]
I’ve put in this category count hack, to show the number of postings for each category.
I just implemented the most excellent B2 Link Manager, so that most of the various links on the side bar can be stored in the DB, as opposed to being a static part of template.
The Wall Street Journal article on Tivo picking out weird suggestions. That, or Tivo suggestions as images of the self. Something like that.
For some reason, I got it into my head this morning to run an ego search, i.e., search for your name on Google (or, in the past, Altavista, say). My own web site doesn’t pop up until the second or third page of hits, and it’s usually four-year-old movie reviews and some technical postings [...]
So, at the end of yesterday’s class, as I was doing back-and-forth-roundhouse with Mitsu, I threw him ippon and I heard a riiipppp. I looked down, and thought, crap: there was a rip along the inner seam running from the knee up about four inches. The hole didn’t get any larger: this pair [...]
Here’s a link for the MTA neighborhood maps, those really detailed street maps that show such things as subway station entrances. You can find the poster-sized maps near the token booths of subway stations. You can find the PDFs of those maps here.
Update: For some mysterious reason, the MTA has removed these files [...]
I looked this up because we have a combination lock that I’ve forgotten the combination for. I remembered that this brand of MasterLock was trivially cracked in Stuyvesant — a fertile ground for the lock cracking meme to spread by wildfire. So, in this age of google and personal web pages, I found [...]