Category Archive for: ‘Notes’

• The Joy of Fountain Pens

  Sure, fountain pens are a bit fiddlier than your average ballpoint. But they do have their advantages.

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• Idiot Bicyclist

  My mother and I were driving into downtown Menlo Park today, stopped at a stop sign. A woman with a wheelchair was crossing the street, so I decided to wait. Just then, a bicyclist plows through the stop sign, across the intersection, and nearly hits …

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• Washing Wool

  A friend asked the other day what to use on wool, knowing my dislike of Woolite. Simple answer: wool is hair. Use shampoo. Might as well use the same shampoo you use on your own hair: one fewer bottle to have hanging around the house. …

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• Migrations, Migrations

  Or, “Migrating a blog is always more painful than you think.” I hope you can see this. If all goes well, this blog has been migrated from WordPress to Typo, running Ruby on Rails over Lighttpd. I’ve seen a few feed hits coming through, but …

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• Press 1 for English

  This is a pent-up rant that’s been waiting for a while, but bear with me. Last time I had to contact our state government’s Employment Development Department by phone, I had to “Press 1 for English.” Now, really, does that make any sense at all? …

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• Getting Ready for Boggs Class

  Going to be going to Northwest Woodworking School for a week for a class. I’m really looking forward to studying for a week with Brian Boggs. Traditional chairmaking is still very much in vogue, and I’ll be interested to see How Things Are Done.

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• Patriotic Gestures, Real and Imagined

  I’m writing about my annual thought-experiment, so that some of you can play. I’m posting early so that the Canadians can also play on Canada Day. Given the recent near-pass on the anti-flag-burning law, I’d like to propose the following: if you happen to see …

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• Thread of the Week

  Well, Woodworking Online is a blog about Woodworking, and the WoodNet forum thread of the week happens to be the one I started about issues with the wooden plane I made.

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• Day with Topfunky

  Yesterday, I went up to the city to spend time at Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Rails workshop, offered by Carson Workshops. While I was already better-versed in Rails than most anyone there, there’s always things you pick up from other people, and it was an excellent recharger …

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• I Habe a Code in My Node

  Been fighting one off for nearly a week. Need more sleep.

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