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On This Day...

• 2012: Building the foundation for a shed — W- and I are planning to get a new, larger shed so that we can store the bicycles and tools [...]
• 2011: A zucchini a day keeps the vegetable drawer okay — This community-supported agriculture experiment has surprising benefits. I’ve eaten more zucchini in the past week than I have in the [...]
• 2010: Playing the long game: writing, raw material, and backups — One of my long-term goals is to share what I’m learning in life. I want to write books and memoirs [...]
• 2009: Notes from the road — Providing consulting services in strategy workshops is a crash course in facilitation and presentation skills. Looking at the presentations and [...]
• 2007: Emacs tidbit: DVI and LaTeX interaction — Skimming the help.gnu.emacs newsgroup can turn up all sorts of amazing tidbits. For example, I occasionally write papers using the LaTeX markup [...]
• 2007: Parry Sound — One of my friends had recommended the 30,000 island cruise around Georgia Bay, so we made a side trip to Parry—a [...]
• 2004: OUT OF THE RAIN — 25 words, 158 chars — The drenched pair eyed the unrelenting storm. Resigned, he asked, “Coffee?” A smile. “Don’t you just hate rain?” The puddles dried. They were [...]
• 2004: Smooth lasagna workflow — My workflow for preparing lasagna is pretty smooth now. No changes to the recipe, just minor tweaks to the process. I [...]
• 2003: Cat story — My mom dropped by school today. =) As I got into the car, I mentioned that there was a cat underneath [...]
• 2003: Pffft — Naturally, I forget that I saved the files in /tmp, which means they vanish after a reboot… I’ll just have to [...]