Years ago, on Jeopardy!, a contestant incorrectly rang into a food science clue with the response, "What is aspartame?" Nope. Then, for the next clue -- something about NutraSweet -- no one rang in. Beep-beep-beep, …
Erin, thank you for your company tonight at Too Much Light, and for introducing me to Curly's Vegetarian Lunch. All fun! An incomplete list of stuff I mentioned: The suck fairy, and NYC as a …
As you might have seen from my microblogging, I seem to know a lot of firms that are hiring. In short: I know people who are looking for project managers, UX designers, backend developers, undergrads …
This weekend I visited two friend-couples who have new babies, then came home to read Mary Anne Mohanraj's related post: In the end, I decided that I wanted to be with him more than I …
Yesterday + today: Project Hamster is a nice timetracking app, better for my purposes than is gTimelog. The magic code to add to an HTML page to make RSS autodiscovery work: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS …
Yesterday, while negotiating with potential clients, I used: You know, standard reading, writing, and interpersonal speaking skills (many courses, school newspaper, speech & debate, Academic Decathlon) Basic algebra to work out some price quotes (elementary …
If you enjoyed Babysitters Club and have more than an hour, Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California will reward your readership. It reads like Ann M. Martin, plus profanity …
I keep recommending in-person that people read Atul Gawande's Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, so I ought to write about it too. I describe it, tongue-in-cheek, as a secular self-help book. Gawande, Michael Lewis, …
Variation: Google Platitude. It analyzes your recent SMSes, your emails, and the galvanic response of your skin to choose a cliché relevant to your mental state, and displays that to you and your circle of …
We learn from surprises, failures, jokes, and disorientations. I recently had a surprise that taught me about my own competence. In response, I wrote a new Geek Feminism post: "On competence, confidence, pernicious socialization, recursion, …
