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Food and Recipes - March 29, 2009, 5:34 pm
Grocery List Recipes Food Information Iron Absorption Specific Foods Digestion Important Food Tips for Runners Grocery List Protein eggs nuts...

Thoughts on chess - January 15, 2009, 8:52 pm
Thoughts on Chess Chess has that quality that many of the greatest games share: easy to learn, difficult to master. Each piece has simple, clearly defined moves, but there are dynamics at play in a...

Improvements and new features - October 17, 2008, 9:36 am
Summary: Web page fixes for Internet Explorer I have a Favicon now! Google search bar Recent changes Internet Explorer I don't use internet explorer. I don't like it. I f...

PC Health - September 23, 2008, 3:27 pm
PC Health Basics: Getting Started Got a new computer or looking after your PC's health for the first time? Then start here. Got Antivirus? If not, then get antivirus. There are many produ...

Superconductivity - July 29, 2008, 10:31 am
Superconductivity Certain materials, known as superconductors (hereafter SC's), when cooled below a certain critical temperature (Tc), exhibit extraordinary properties including resistance-les...

Iran's Photoshop Brigade - July 24, 2008, 2:28 pm
Iran's Photoshop Brigade Apparently Iran photoshopped photos of a missile launch and U.S. papers printed the photos without realizing they had been doctored. Full details here as well as hilar...

Journal 2 - July 6, 2008, 9:06 pm
July 4th weekend 2008 July 4th: 5K race in Rochester July 5th: Karate in Albany July 6th: National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown I had another full and enjoyable weekend. I celebrated I...

Journal 1 - June 30, 2008, 3:42 pm
June 30th, 2008 Last Friday Elissa and I had an adventure north of Rochester on the shore of Lake Ontario. "Adventure", of course, is a euphemism for getting really really lost. Eventually we made ...

Rectangular Rainbow Seeds - June 27, 2008, 10:02 pm
Rectangular Rainbow Seeds I didn't plan on making another useless, yet hopefully delightful javascript page so soon after Heat Flow, but I was in a mood. I was thinking about procedurally g...

Heat Flow - June 6, 2008, 9:12 pm
Heat Flow If your first thought when you saw the above picture was "NASA photo" then you should tell me so. It will warm my heart. Actually, what I've got here is a simulation of heat flow...

Version 2.0 - May 15, 2008, 10:02 pm
My website has just undergone major changes. Nothing but the home page, smartamusement.com and the musings are at the same link as they were two hours ago. Everything is still "out there" somewhere....

Movie Trailers - March 26, 2008, 3:32 pm
Movie Trailers Here are some of my favorite movie trailers. This is an extremely incomplete list. There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood: Milkshake spoof trailer No Country for Old Men ...

What Would Jesus Do - March 26, 2008, 8:50 am
What Would Jesus Do ...if he thought he was getting swindled by an auto mechanic? Jesus probably wouldn't own a car, but work with me here in this hypothetical situation. Maybe it's a sa...

quotes - March 25, 2008, 4:07 pm
quotes The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard~ World of Quotes: Sep 24, 2008 P.J. O'Rourke - I'd ...

Flight of the Conchords - March 25, 2008, 2:04 pm
Flight of the Conchords Apparently I have a long lost twin. Here are a few other attempts. The band is called Flight of the Conchords and they are hilarious, not to mention quite ta...

lolcats - March 9, 2008, 12:58 pm
lolcats Where it all began. The Computer code The Religion The language ROFL Cats ...because some people just can't get enough. LOLCATS Still more! Some of my favorites: ...

Ceiling cat - February 29, 2008, 10:42 pm
Ceiling cat Knock knock. Has yu herd teh good wurd? If yu beleev in ceiling cat and axsept hiz son, Jeebus, intoo yur hart yu will spendz teh afterlifz hangin wit ceiling cat and you wil has all te...

How does that work - February 16, 2008, 9:24 pm
How does that work Why do satellites fall out of the sky? Some people may wonder why satellites usually don't fall out of the sky (the moon is a satellite, ya know). The answer to that question...

A Weather Report - February 1, 2008, 1:00 pm
A Weather Report Let's talk about the weather. Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 An unseasonably warm day with some rain. I was worried about going on a run due to ice, but my concerns were unfoun...

the printer incident - January 14, 2008, 9:49 am
the printer incident Here is a copy of my just-submitted amazon review for my Lexmark 2470 printer/scanner. I am consumed by such rage as I cannot describe. great product if you never ever have ...

Travel Planning - January 7, 2008, 9:28 pm
Travel Planning Megabus - low cost, daily, express bus service in the US. Rates as low as $1 if you book early enough. Farecast - Not only searches for cheap air fare, but tells you whether it e...

Cutting steel and other manly materials part 2 - November 18, 2007, 5:48 pm
Cutting steel and other manly materials part 2 The warehouse at Klein Steel is relatively unimpressive to the untrained eye. Certainly, large pieces of steel, big cranes, and loud noises have some in...

Cutting steel and other manly materials part 1 - November 5, 2007, 7:31 am
Cutting steel and other manly materials part 1 I've more or less moved in to my new place in Rochester and today will only be my third day of work at Klein Steel. The first two days were a whirl...

Application of High School Algebra - October 2, 2007, 4:07 pm
Application of High School level Algebra 2 Problem set Consider the following situation. The cartoonist refers to the fact that sound or other types of waves emanating from one focal poin...

Zumbooruck - September 25, 2007, 1:50 pm
Zumbooruck Every once in awhile a coincidence occurs that makes you wonder if Zaphod Beeblebrox didn't just engage the Heart of Gold's improbability drive. On a lazy Sunday this past s...

Randomness - September 12, 2007, 1:10 pm
Randomness I've always been curious about so called random number generators. Briefly my curiosity was transformed into virulent skepticism. I was working on a genetic algorithm and noticed some...

iPhone owners to Apple - We thought you loved us - September 7, 2007, 12:05 pm
iPhone owners to Apple - We thought you loved us Recently Apple slashed the price of its iPhone by 200 dollars. The New York Times reported that Apple fanatics felt betrayed by the way Apple hyped th...

Sin City and Arabian Nights and Days - August 30, 2007, 6:17 pm
Sin City and Arabian Nights and Days Frank Miller's Sin City and Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days I recently (finally) saw Sin City and afterwards realized that most of the "good...

Deep Fried without the Guilt - August 21, 2007, 4:40 pm
Deep Fried without the Guilt This summer some friends of mine were discussing the innumeracy of the set of objects that can be fried and in a separate conversation the unique and stunning cuisine ava...

Faster than Light - August 21, 2007, 4:13 pm
Faster than Light A recent New York Times article describes the fascinating possibility that some non-things, such as shadows, can travel faster than the speed of light. NY Times Article At lea...