This is a nice digital photography site, with articles and tips from users: fredmiranda.com – Home
It seems to be geared to seriously expensive equipment, rather than the snapshot digital camera I have. A lot of the techniques and tips will work with my film camera, though.
Not the best resource, but they seem to have documentation on weird devices and GUI stuff, less for what one would think would be standard topics such as security, running dhcpd, etc.:
Sensei Coleman noted after this evening’s class that my stance is atrocious when executing technique. I apparently wind up in the “waiting for a bus” stance, rather than hanmi, or horse stance, or feet together for a throw.
A couple of stance exercises to try, the first with an uke, the second without.
The first is for uke to just do random attacks, with tori moving. Tori should wind up in some reasonable stance — don’t worry about doing technique yet. Movement is of course using hitch step or tai sabaki. This also helps with seeing attacks, moving to get out of the way, and then doing a technique once you find yourself someplace.
The other stance exercise is to move in a triangle, hitching forward and to the left to one point of a triangle, then moving across, then moving back. No uke is needed for this.
Of course, I should do more tai sabaki and hitch step exercises, along with the Friday movement exercises: kotegaeshi 10, ippon, step to the middle, and close the window.
Found this on the Corcoran web site. There was a sale of an apartment somewhere above mine, and the floor plan was published and archived (This was on Corcoran’s “how much is my apartment worth?” feature, which lets you search on past sales). I’ve pulled it down to my own server for safe keeping.
A few things to note: the measurements seem to be “outside wall” to “outside wall”, e.g., my living room is measured at closer to 13′ wide rather than 13’6″. The measurements, in other words, are typical real estate agent numbers.
I’ve looked for a B-line floor plan, but haven’t come up with one yet.
Generic “valid in all 50 state” real estate contracts are available at Staples and other office supply stores. I should check the NoLo guys to see if they have a book on such contracts. There are also web sites such as Audrie.com that will sell DIY real estate contracts for minimal costs.
The “state-specific” forms tend to be longer than the more generic ones, because these are geared to managing, say, the commission information for the brokers who may be taking part in this. New York City co-ops are a bit weird, though, since there has to be a section that states the number of shares changing hands, etc., so I’m not sure if the generic documents are applicable.
A few things to keep in mind after Friday and Sunday classes:
1. Finally, techniques that correspond to the “finger stretch” that we do during warmups: uke does a same-side wrist grab or straight punch. Against the grab, tori draws uke forward by stepping back, keeping the hand in the center. Against the punch, tori deflects the punch to the inside to get off-balance. Don’t push the arm down, because in both cases, tori does a tai sabaki underneath the outstretched arm while attaching to the wrist and hand. Tori then brings uke’s arm down such that the hand is stretched backwards; the goal is to put uke’s palm on the ground. Uke’s forward momentum requires that he does a one-handed hand stand with threat to the elbow, or he goes into a roll. A roll can be forced into a breakfall if tori doesn’t let go. Tori’s motion is similar to shiho-nage, but instead of bringing the outstretched arm back to uke’s shoulder, the hand is brought down to the ground. The technique is also performed more to uke’s front than to his side.
2. Pay more attention during multiples, or else you might get smacked in the mouth by someone’s heel when that uke is projected into a roll. Tori doing multiples should be using people as projectiles to disrupt attacks. Tori should keep moving; uke should keep moving.
3. I have to more things like Hindu squats, because Sunday’s fast-paced warm-up ukemi got my legs surprisingly exhausted within a few minutes. Regardless of the legs getting exhausted, I have to start doing more aerobic exercise, maybe something along these lines, which is supposed to help 18-year-olds who haven’t regularly exercised get into physical shape before they start boot camp.
An article on Oracle 9i new features. Oracle9i New Features for Oracle8i DBAs
I went looking for this because of the whole spfile and init.ora thing.
Found this article on grand unification using Keberos and OpenLDAP. This may come in handy later if we move towards SSO-like solutions in the office, using kerberos to take over what we’re using NIS for right now. He talks a bit about getting miscellaneous applications, such as CVS, Cyrus IMAP, etc., working.
Why do people pick things like Netegrity when there’s an old, proven solution with Kerberos? Not sure. I’m still trying to understand the full implications of these pieces of software. One thing Netegrity and presumably other commercial SSO solutions do is control both authentication and authorization. Kerberos doesn’t obviously control authorization; you can probably get it to do this, but it won’t be in one ready made package.
Other kerberos documentation links:
Here’s a post from nyc.food by Matthew Crosby on a few Park Slope restaurants:
From: Matthew Crosby (mcrosby@tinho.net)
Subject: Re: park slope restaurants
Newsgroups: nyc.food
Date: 2003-01-08 07:40:07 PSTIn article (efd191a.0212301457.a8f2015@posting.google.com),
PIN (irene-googlenewsgroups@cheetahmail.com) wrote:
>There are very few postings on Park Slope restaurants here, and
>understandibly so. Most are way below average… really disappointing
>for such a well to do neighborhood. Much to my excitement, DH and I
>had the pleasure to find a great little place right off 7th Ave. on
>9th Street (southeast corner). It’s called the Minnow and specializedI’ve heard good things about this place, and after your recommendation will definately try it.
Anyway, while I agree that the majority of 7th Ave restaurants are mediocre, if you are willing to walk down to 5th the scene is MUCH better.
Some places I like:
Rosewater (Union & 6th). Nominally middle eastern but in practice fairly international, I think this is one of the most underrated places on the slope. They use very fresh produce from the greenmarket, do interesting recipies and on nice summer days one can sit outside and enjoy the really very very good food.
Al Di La (5th and Garfield). I’ve always found New York to be suprisingly bad in the Italian department. Too many mediocre psuedo-southern Italian places serving gloppy red sauce based dishes to the sort of person who thinks that lots of food means a good restaurant. This place really stands out. It’s Northern Italian (Venetian), and the food is among the best northern Italian I’ve had in the city. Lots of real Italian stuff like Bagna Cauda that you don’t see all that often, and a small but very well selected and reasonably priced wine list.
Blue Ribbon. (5th and I think 1st) Basically identical to the Blue Ribbon in Manhattan. Now Park Slopers can get a good meal at 3 AM too!
Thali Thai. (On 5th down by I think Carroll). Recently opened, I have a lot of hope for this. Again, much more sophisticated Thai then the usual suspects (and again, NY doesn’t do so well at Thai generally), this place is run by an Australian, so there is a really really great Australian wine list. Much more interesting use of flavours and interesting dishes then the usual watered down curries and Pad Thais that one gets at the typical thai places.
Bistro St Marks (St Marks and Flatbush) has been talked about many times here so I won’t bring it up again, but it’s worth trying. I’ve found them to sometimes not live up to their promise, but definately a decent place.
A Slate article on that paper on EverQuest economics: Fantasy Economics – Why economists are obsessed with online role-playing games. By Robert Shapiro
I’ve read it before, but it’s nice to see a professional economist give a summary and point out some interesting tidbits. One is that, given the exchange rate between EQ platinum pieces and real dollars (derived from EBay sales of items and characters), the per capita income in EQ is about the same as in China or India.
The main thing, though, is that market economics can arise from a minimal set of rules. The caveats are that the players in EQ come from a capitalist tradition, and will want to replicate markets in the virtual world; and that the “government” in the form of Sony game designers have imposed an initial equality on all players. Markets are more free if there’s greater equality — the real world government’s market interventions tend to be designed to address particular forms of inequality. Genuine equality may then lead to the libertarian ideal of limited government.
It should be noted that some inequalities are structural to the markets themselves, e.g., the market for lemons and the implications of asymmetric information. The EQ market place is probably simple enough not to have market failure situations. Government intervention in the market can also be motivated by social policy aims, e.g., everyone should have a house of their own, hence the tax deduction on mortgage interest. In this case, it may be useful to show what kind of cost this has on the economy (so such policy decisions can be made more democratically) though that may be difficult, if not impossible.
This aside, experiments, inadvertent or not, are simplifications that allow you to derive insights on the real world.