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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Social
Friday night I went to a lab dinner at my prof’s place, then drove down to CT. On Saturday we had two overlapping Bat Mitzvahs at different synagogues, and then the accompanying fabulous parties, for about 13 hours straight. Today … Continue reading
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Gremlins
Sunday I inflated both tires with my new pump and adapter. I rode the bike to work Monday and Tuesday, enjoying the confidence of properly pressurized rubber. Coming out from work Tuesday afternoon, my rear tire was dead flat, like … Continue reading
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Polywell
The Polywell fusion device developers stopped making press releases some time last year, and basically disappeared from my consciousness. I imagined that the project was probably dead, given its tenuous position at the edge of crackpotdom. As it turns out, … Continue reading
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Schwinn Multi-Function Foot Pump
Yesterday, on my errand shopping spree, I bought a Schwinn bicycle pump at Target for $13, including Presta-Schrader valve adapter. The pump itself is mediocre, it turns out, flimsily built with a pressure gauge of questionable utility, but that makes … Continue reading
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Salsa
After a long day of errands I went to meet a friend at Conga, a restaurant/salsa club, tonight. There was a lesson first, which was nice, since I haven’t danced salsa in years. Unfortunately, the lesson turned out to be … Continue reading
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Oh, Microsoft
You are always good for a laugh. Before: In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only. After: In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user … Continue reading
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High volume dust filtration
Does anyone know of a system for filtering large volumes of air for dust? I’m not worried about allergens here, just visible dust particles. Everything in my apartment seems to get covered in dust, sometimes even vertical surfaces, and it … Continue reading
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Alzheimer’s Vaccines
In 2002, Elan/Wyeth/Pfizer stopped a trial of AN-1792, an experimental Alzheimer’s vaccine, after a pattern became apparent in which about 4.5% of those receiving treatment developed dangerous encephalitis. (Most of them did recover, though.) The vaccine didn’t appear to be … Continue reading
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Rail
Every spring the streets of Boston are retextured and repaved, in the hope that by June or July we will again have things that can reasonably be called “roads”. Cambridgeward off the BU bridge this evening I found Brookline St. … Continue reading
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Transferred
Last night I transferred all my data from my old laptop onto the new one. I did it in the fastest way I could think of: hooked up a crossover cable and ran rsync. It worked like a charm, at … Continue reading
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