September 2011
2 posts
All moved out of the room I lived in for the past 6 years. Kinda weird, but it was time for a change.
Obligatory, unnecessary post about gap in creative...
Hmm, I haven’t blogged or written anything in a while. Perhaps it’s time to change that.
March 2010
7 posts
Tonight, I was deglazing a glass baking dish across two burners when it suddenly exploded, sending chunks of glass and boiling white wine sauce everywhere. Are you not supposed to heat glass on the stovetop? I’ve seen people do it with casserole dish-like glassware before before.
Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of... →
Here the presence of melanosomes — characteristic bodies that give feathers their colour — is demonstrated in feathers and feather-like structures of fossil early birds and dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Group of China. Not only is it shown that the feather–like structures of dinosaurs such asSinosauropteryx really are akin to feathers, it is also possible to speculate in an informed...
Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into a game →
Imagine Microsoft Office turned into a video game. One where learning a productivity app is a delight. One where the core loop of gameplay involves using and gaining skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It sounds a bit unlikely doesn’t it? Well, I’m happy to announce the availability of Ribbon Hero, a new download from Microsoft that turns using Office into a game. I’ve been helping the fine...
AND SO IT CAME TO PASS,
on a cold gray morning in the last gasps of winter, that he would have a chance to find out after all.
He had awoken to the sound of thundering hooves and a pounding on his door. A scrap of parchment had been thrust into his hands, and the messenger had retreated in a dwindling cloud of dust. As he stood outside, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he couldn’t help but think of the irony of...
After looking through all of the themes (yes, even the Theme Garden ones) I didn’t really see one that I liked. But I also know that if I start customizing the HTML and CSS I’ll be up all night. So I’ll save that for later.
February 2010
1 post
Is this the new Xanga?
Omg, tricked into making a Tumblr when I just wanted to post a comment. Hmm, that’s how my Xanga started too…