Rambling about hacking on my creaky old email archival infrastructure
What started out as a simple message archiving task turned into many hours of debugging, fixing, and cleaning up the old archives. Both frustrating and fun at the same time.
Category Archives: Ramblings
Replicating Clover Food Lab’s cheesy grits with egg
My recipe for an at-home version of this Clover fan favorite.
Do you burn more calories running than walking?
If your exercise is time-constrained, you’ll (obviously) burn more calories the faster you go whether you run or walk. If your exercise is distance-constrained, you’ll burn slightly more calories running than walking.
Do you burn more calories if you walk faster?
If your walk is time-constrained, walking faster burns more calories. If your walk is distance-constrained, walking faster makes no difference.
A brief review of “Leopoldstadt” on Broadway
“Leopoldstadt” is a good but not great play and certainly not one of Tom Stoppard’s better scripts. Standing ovations no longer have any meaning on Broadway. COVID is not over despite the fact that theater audiences want to pretend it is.
How to cook amazing home-fried potatoes
I will now tell you how to cook amazing home-fried potatoes, which are the perfect breakfast food, at least for people who don’t eat bacon (or so I’m told, seeing as how I don’t eat bacon). Equipment you need: Ingredients you need: Steps:
How I lost 40 pounds and you can too
Several years ago, I decided I needed to lose weight. Here’s what worked for me (I went from 170 to 130 pounds, and I’ve kept off the weight). Maybe it’ll work for you as well. First, a word of warning: there are good reasons to want to lose weight, but there are also bad reasons,… Read More »
Endorsements for 2022 Boston MA Democratic Primary
Early voting in the 2022 Massachusetts primary starts tomorrow, and election day is September 6. Here are my endorsements for the races I’m voting in, in Boston. Themes: support progressives, support women. I’ll be helping to staff early voting at the Jackson/Mann school on Sunday, August 28. Stop by to say hi and cast your… Read More »
DisplayLink now working for some hardware for Ubuntu 21.04, 21.10 (NVIDIA is a problem)
UPDATE [2021-12-22]: With the the recently released update, 5.5.0-59.118, both Wayland and Xorg work on my PC with an Intel graphics controller, and Wayland doesn’t work on my PC with an NVIDIA controller without the proprietary NVIDIA driver, but Xorg does. I did not test whether Wayland or Xorg works with the proprietary NVIDIA controller,… Read More »
Another step in the long, slow death of Usenet
If you have no idea what Usenet is, you can skip the rest of this blog posting. Twenty-eight moderated newsgroups, four of them in the “Big 8”, died today. Or, more accurately, they died at some point prior to August 13 and they were buried today. Some background info for those of you who may… Read More »