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There are things that run on motors but don’t need to.  This is a realization that has come slowly to me, but is hitting with great force now.  And it all began with the meager nose hair…

While one doesn’t hear much about it in the popular media, it is true that a man must trim his nose hair from time to time.  This task is simple and takes very little time, but it is my humble opinion that this task calls for a dedicated tool.  Scissors are entirely too dangerous.  When my typical electric trimmer bought the farm, I searched for a while for a better electric trimmer before stumbling upon this marvel by Tweezerman.  This manual trimmer does an even better job than the electric, is smaller and easier to clean, and will never require a battery replacement.  It is in every way superior. Continue Reading »

Chocolate and Zucchini is a terrific blog.  Today, through them, I found a post about The Omnivore’s Hundred, a list of 100 foods that every omnivore should try at least once.  A few of the items on the list really provoke strong feelings for me, so I just have to play along.  There will, of course, be comments. Continue Reading »

I got a job today. I’m helping out a baker that I met at the Boulder Farmer’s Market last week. They make awesome stuff. I have baked jiffy muffins a few times back in the day, and baked madeleines twice. Yep. That’s it.  And then we got the job.  Ok, we.  Kia’s working at the farmer’s market, and I’m going to help at the market sometimes, but more with the baking.  They pay is better than we expected, and the people are amazingly cool.  Very excited.

Also, I got a call yesterday about a job with a very serious technology company about which I was VERY excited.  It was from a recruiter, of course.  Today, I got another call from the recruiter.  They want to do a phone interview tomorrow!

How excited am I?

Incredibly.

Which is why I can’t tell you the company.  :)

When wearing a baseball cap, there is really only one concern, and that is Looking Good.

Cap Washer

To keep looking good, it is important to ensure that your cap brim maintains the ideal shape.  Some ingenious person has designed a cap form to use while washing.  Perhaps you’ve seen this on TV.

Well, today while on my way to check the PO Box, I happened upon two young gentlemen wearing the entire cap + form cage ensemble.

Wearing a well-formed cap is essential.
Keeping your cap in a form is just smart.
Wearing your cap while IN the form is a SERIOUS commitment to cap form preservation.

Young men, I commend you on your unwavering commitment to looking good, regardless of the cost.

And shame on me for not pulling over and asking if I could take a picture…

I really get a kick out of the Internet’s propensity toward hacking, chopping, gluing-together, and otherwise disfiguring existing words to make new ones.

Blog is the chop-shop result of a Log of one’s life preserved on the Web.  Weblog.  Why 2/3 of the first syllable was cut off is beyond me.  Attached a chopped Mobile to the front, and you have your mobile web log, or moblog.  That’s pronounced Mo-Blog, not mob log.

Moblogs generally involve mobile-ly transmitting things to your blog, but I take the easy way out and store my phone’s pictures on the microSD card, then transferring and uploading in regular intervals of when I feel like it.

Well, I finally felt like it.

(Note to friends: I only post the pics I take.  Not the ones you send me.  So don’t stop sending them.) :D

One thing I’ve not yet read about, but just accidentally discovered, is that you can scroll your tabs (left and right) in Firefox 3.  I’m using a MacBook with OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and have no idea how well it would work on other platforms, but using the two-finger scroll gesture on the trackpad when hovering the tabs causes them to slide left and right.

Obviously you need several tabs open before this will work…. or be useful for that matter.  But I’m going through the W3’s list of CSS Learning resources and opening a bunch of sites in new tabs so I can go through them without getting lost in the list.

I recently watched the lynda.com series Learning XHTML.  It is good for people who are interested in learning XHTML 1.0 Transitional.  I prefer to use the Strict implementation, and learned very little from the series.

I’m now doing the Learning CSS 2 series.  I don’t expect to learn much, if anything from it, but I do figure it is a good place to start on reminding myself of all the great resources I’d found over the last several years.  The above link included.

I’m applying for a web design job tomorrow.  How crazy is that?  I know that my professional experience won’t help me out much with it.  Nor will my lack of an online portfolio.  But given my personal experience, I know I would be amazing for the job.