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Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
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Really Rosie
Somehow, when I broke this blog back in August, I lost the post with Rosie Bultman's baby pictures. I'm hoping this will goose Chip into sending me more. Who, you may be asking your computer monitor, is Chip? Nothing less than the copy chief for California Lawyer and a wonderful photographer. Rosie is his baby daughter. I'm hoping reposting these will goose Chip into sending me more photos to post, so that the world, or at least the Daily Journal and California Lawyer staffs, can see how she's grown.
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Ever curious
If you're a Mac fan (a separate species I've come to believe), you probably already know about Think Secret, the tight rumor mill of Apple news. http://www.thinksecret.com/ Since I haven't used a Mac regularly for about fifteen years, I discovered said site only because I read that Apple is suing them for disclosing trade secrets, thereby confirming whatever it was they wanted to deny. Maybe they're suing over Think Secret's article on the sub-$500 Mac Apple (http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0412expo2.html) is supposed to announce at MacWorld in San Francisco (groan) next week. (What's so difficult about such an animal? They drop to about $500 because they don't include a monitor. No duh. PC manufacturers have been doing that for, um, almost twenty years. 5:43:48 PM 
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Tricks of the Trade
OK. So I do have titles working again. Progress. Wanna get the party dancing? Play Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl. " Don't believe me. Go straight to my source Tricks of the Trade. (I'll fix it, I'll fix it. Give me a chance.) Or, if you're carpenter for a day, hold a nail the safer way: There's more than one way to hold a nail for hammering, but the obvious one leaves your thumb vulnerable to a serious whack when the hammer misses. Try it this way: Turn your palm towards yourself, with the nail held between the tips of two fingers. If the hammer misses, you'll hit the flat of a finger instead of the side of your thumb. Yes, it still hurts to hit your fingers with a hammer. But it's nowhere near the pain of hitting your thumb, because the flat of a finger is tougher than the side of a thumb. Pinch the tip of your finger or thumb as hard as you can, first through the flat from nail to pad, then from the sides, and you'll know what a difference this makes. http://www.tradetricks.org/archives/001116.html Consumers generally won't buy a bicycle with completely smooth or treadless tires, even though the tread pattern serves no purpose and tires would be cheaper to make (and therefore buy) without it. People think bicycle tires should have tread because car tires have tread. But car tires have tread for a reason. In wet conditions water has to be given a way to flow from under the tire's contact patch, so the rubber can remain in contact with pavement and prevent hydroplaning. A car tire is much larger than that of a bicycle tire, thought, and the water has much further to travel. Physics dictates that the pressure forcing water from below the car's tire is equal to the pressure of inflation, typically 30-40 psi. With a bicycle road tire, however, inflation pressure is typically 80-120 psi. In other words, in comparison to car tires, bicycle tires have much smaller contact patches and much higher pressure -- the two physical parameters of concern in hydroplaning. The speed required to hydroplane on a bicycle has been calculated in the region of 90-100 mph. http://www.tradetricks.org/archives/001113.html (Originally from Ask Metafilter (http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/10953)
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title trolling
There are still a few kinks to work out. One of them is getting the title to publish. Another is getting the links linked. But I can post and I shall and will post.
What does a young anaesthesiologist do in his spare time (of which he seems to have a lot)? He comments (in bookofjoe, http://www.bookofjoe.com/) on things--you know, booster toilet seats, Flatmatic compact sunglasses and reading glasses, olive spoons. Precise links TK (to kum for you non-reporters) but search and ye shall find. |
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Am I back yet?
After a heroic (an heroic?) struggle, I think I've finessed my blog back into letting me post. (I suspect that this is not Radio Userland's fault--or I wouldn't still be here--but, rather, a result of the incredibly confused templates I've created over the last couple of years. I've been too lazy (and, probably, inexperienced) to attack the mess and four months offline has been my punishment. The mess is so bad, I'm embarrassed to keep the CSS at the bottom of my pages.(Cascading Style Sheets: if you don't know what it means, just know that, if done properly, make your blog or Web site readable on any system anywhere. Supposedly.)
There's also an extra period (after the question mark) in the first line that I can't see in editing mode and therefore can't erase. |
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