On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Science Night in the Avery/Weir/Frisina Household
Given a large block of dry ice and the following substances, create an hour of fun for three people: Warm water Dishwashing liquid Isopropyl alcohol Laundry detergent A piece of lettuce Dark cola A Ziploc baggy I was very late picking up the camera and had a hell of a time getting the 55-200mm lens to focus, but here are some shots:
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Weekly Linkage: The Long Edition
At some point in the last 2 weeks, I had 0 unread items in Google Reader. It was a short-lived, joyous experience, but this is the result of my web branching: HCG Diet Dangers: Is Fast Weight Loss Worth the Risk? – MSN Health & Fitness – Healthy Living – "But the so-called hCG diet is either a weight-loss miracle or a dangerous fraud, depending on who's talking. The plan combines drops or injections of hCG, a pregnancy hormone, with just 500 calories a day." I don't even have words for how stupid this sounds. And how unhealthy. "Yeah, I'm going to shoot up with a hormone and engage in…
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Deployment Automation with Fabric: Bee’s Knees
One immensely valuable thing I learned at Skookum was the value of automated deployments. I worked with a gent who took the time to work up Capistrano scripts for each staging and production environment of the whale of a project I worked with him on. I appreciated it during development, but I didn’t appreciate it until we were deploying single tweaks out to production on Amazon EC2 in rapid cycles. I haven’t worked with EC2 since then (second half of 2009), but let me tell you, deployments were for the birds. With his scripts though: run the script, enter your SSH or git password(s) a few times, and you have…
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Finally, Some Wedding Relaxation
Within the last week, a few incredible things happened with regards to the wedding: My stress level dropped by about 50%. I got my wedding dress. RSVPs are coming in. We have a marriage license! Wedding planning is fun again! Actually, RSVPs starting coming in last week and are trickling off this week, but we now have People Attending Our Wedding. Which makes this stuff, like, official. So does the marriage license, which was pleasantly easy to get. Greg and I took a couple of hours and worked straight through our Checklist o’ Doom (thank you, Knot), making sure we knew where we stood on everything, clearing out irrelevant tasks,…
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Weekly Linkage: All Over the Place
There’s no particular theme to this week’s surfing, but there are some pretty pictures and good reads here. The problem with waste – Note that the list of not-recommended screenings include things like screening for prostate cancer in men older than 75 or colon cancer in folks above 85. I glanced through the USPSTF's procedure manual, and it looks like they're taking into account a variety of factors (age, gender, race, etc.), but their information is only as good as the studies they're pulling from. How worried should we be about researchers' biases (ageism being the first that comes to mind)? "So we’re confronted with a set of screening recommendations…