A Columbia University professor, dumpster diving into NYC Sanitation Department records, has found a number of counterintuitive things about the amount of garbage we’ve been throwing out of the past century.
In particular, garbage collected per person peaked in 1940 at over 2000 pounds per person, compared to the current 928 pounds per person in [...]
Testing out the new bookmarking regedit hack for IE6 I mentioned earlier. I wanted to get a reference in there for this old Slate article on UFC for some reason.
The Bookmarklet thing seems to work nicely: it takes the title of the page, and puts them in the right fields for the boomarking form.
Fight [...]
So we have a car now. I have no idea how to fix things if there are problems, as most of what I know apparently comes from Junkyard Wars, though my brother points out that the less from JYW is that cars are fundamentally boxes with engines and wheels — not a big deal. [...]
Ah, someone posted a way to post URLs to b2 using a right-click in IE. I haven’t tried it yet, but will in a couple more days. Here’s the link.
Also, an image thumbnailing hack for b2 to try later.
As said, the weblog as filing system. This one makes it a bit easier.
I’m finally getting the ceilings in the bedroom and bathroom replastered. They were damaged in 1998, a few months after I moved in, when the then-upstairs neighbor overflowed the bathtub in a bad way. The disintegrating plaster is particularly bad in one place in each room; the hole seems to enlarge each summer, [...]
The badly installed stereo is also only a tape deck, which is OK, since we have all the wiring to plug in the MP3 player, but alternatively, for less than $200 we can put in an MP3-capable stereo. And this is the relatively expensive Crutchfield’s price. The final should be around $150, with [...]
1997 Honda Civic LX, with about 55K miles for $5400. A previous owner went through a little trouble putting mods into it, such as a thumpy exhaust system, a racing spoiler, LEDs to illuminate the domes that shoot out the windshield fluid, custom headlights, and larger speakers in the back. Grace can now [...]
These were posted on rec.arts.movies.reviews, so they’re archived on groups.google.com.
I may try to bring them down for local storage, but it’s a bit of a pain right now, since wget isn’t the articles on the recursive get.
Here’s a hack to get sticky posts, where marked posts will stay at the top of the sort order.
This was implemented this afternoon to keep the “first post” up.