Done yesterday (20100628 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0628 Mo
  * up 6:35; W=192.4; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  @ xkcd: 3x9 - required some thought before laughing.  Read the tooltip.
  @ Seeing Languages Differently - Boing Boing
  @ Avertible catastrophe (via billroper) 
  @ Grub 2 - Ubuntu Wiki
     apt-get install --reinstall libdebian-installer4
     os-prober; update-grub
  * sshd not running on (work desktop) anduin.  copy host key from debian
  : When I was a boy window managers had proper manners, and didn't bind keys
    that I was using for emacs.
  * short walk; lunch at Sitar Express in The Oaks
    cheap, tasty; not a huge selection, but chai on tap.
  @ travel tips
  & mostly a vegetable for over an hour in the evening.
  @ The Ferrett's Journal - Six Guidelines For Good Critiques
    Noted, as so often, by ysabetwordsmith
  : very sleepy after dinner
  x call Sheraton anyway (626) 449-4000 (much too late now)
  * bath, bed ~10:30; snuggle

A pretty good day, mostly spent beating Ubuntu into submission as my new desktop OS at work. When I was a boy window managers had proper manners, and didn't bind keys that Emacs was using. I'll probably go back to ctwm now.

After an unsuccessful shopping trip I had lunch at Sitar Express in The Oaks shopping center; cheap ($7 for the buffet), tasty, not a huge selection but good hot condiments and masala chai on tap.

I was pretty much a vegetable after dinner, and went to bed early. Not conducive to getting things done.

Some good links under the cut. The day's xkcd required a close look at both the tool-tip and the math before becoming suddenly and uproariously funny.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

The xkcd ... I don't think I ever did that in an actual exam, but in one of my mock exams we had to calculate the area under a curve ... now my calculator could use Simpsons rule ... but the idea was to understand integration and calculate the area through proper calculus and not by approximations ...

... sadly I hit a blank ... so I did the integration as far as I could, used Simpsons rule to calculate the approximate area under the curve, and joined the two together.

I lost one mark for not showing all my workings, but otherwise got full marks for that question!

So yes, I've lived that XKCD comic :-)

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

is it good chai? strong and rich and spicy and not too sweet? would love to find somewhere that wasn't in SF for good chai!

[mdlbear]

Not the best I've had, but not too bad. Not very spicy, though.