Posts tagged ‘personal’
Hotel wifi help
December 29th, 2011 at 6:57 pm by Dr. Drang
Let me start by apologizing for the title of this post. If you were searching for help with balky hotel wifi and wound up here through some horrible SEO failure, I can assure you you won’t find anything useful in what follows. It’s more a post about the lack of hotel wifi help. Last night…
Museum
December 15th, 2011 at 10:41 pm by Dr. Drang
I got a call yesterday afternoon to go to one of the northern suburbs to inspect a piece of machinery that broke that morning. On the drive home, with grimy hands from the equipment and a desperate need to pee from the schooner of tea I’d drunk on the way up, I pulled into a…
Silver plus one
November 30th, 2011 at 2:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Normal
November 7th, 2011 at 11:26 am by Dr. Drang
It’s in the nature of pseudonymous blogging to be a little impersonal, and although this blog has always been about what I think, it hasn’t—with one prominent exception I can think of—been about my life. I don’t want that to change, but there are a few things I need to say. First, Breast Cancer Awareness…
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
March 27th, 2011 at 2:25 am by Dr. Drang
My family and I are on vacation in Maui. There was a contest on the flight here from SFO a couple of days ago: Guess the exact time (to the nearest second) at which the plane would reach the halfway point of the trip. The crew gave out a lot of information about airspeed, distance,…
Presbyopia
March 12th, 2011 at 9:58 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m really nearsighted. Arm’s length is way too far away for me to see clearly without correction. But I’m content in my nearsightedness; I’ve been wearing glasses or contact lenses since third or fourth grade, and it’s just part of who I am. The middle-aged farsightedness, presbyopia, that’s pushed its way into my life is…
Stupidity, mindfulness, and cheat sheets
February 8th, 2011 at 7:56 am by Dr. Drang
I kind of made an ass of myself on Twitter last week. Merlin Mann and/or Dan Benjamin (I forget which) tweeted that the latest episode of Back to Work was available, and I went to look at the show notes. I saw a link to Red Barber’s Wikipedia article and tweeted this: @hotdogsladies @danbenjamin A…
We don’t move in any ’ticular direction
January 20th, 2011 at 10:34 pm by Dr. Drang
I spent much of Tuesday down in my basement, taking out an old water softener and putting in a new one. Most of the time was spent measuring lengths of pipe; remeasuring lengths of pipe; cutting pipe; soldering pipe; waiting for recently soldered pipe to cool down so I could do more measuring, cutting, and…
Last word on weight loss and Gnuplot
December 21st, 2010 at 11:13 pm by Dr. Drang
Well, it’s my last word on weight loss, anyway. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about Gnuplot. As I’ve mentioned before, I started tracking my weight this year with the hope of seeing it go down. That’s been a success. I weigh myself every morning and record the weight in a note-taking app on…
Brainteaser
December 5th, 2010 at 8:48 am by Dr. Drang
Last weekend, I forced my older son to take a break from Minecraft and Black Ops and work with me on this brainteaser from Coudal Partners:1 There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a…
