Thursday, December 1, 2011

quick workaround for: "Not a com32r image" when booting from USB stick on ubuntu.

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[Note: The best solution is to just boot into windows and use unetbootin to make the USB.] I've been trying to install a bunch of PC...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Not the only greek problem, but it can't help

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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n23/james-meek/diary Politis once looked into opening a restaurant with music. He found that the regulations insi...
Monday, November 28, 2011

"You do not make the poor rich by making the rich poor."

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Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NEWSHOUR.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

go team.

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While there are many reasons for these troubling trends, the state cannot ignore the role its policies have played in the economic decline. ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

How to boot thinkpad X1 from USB.

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Format USB stick so it has a bootable ISO image (linux has various ways to do this; I used usb-creator-gtk for no particular reason other th...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

"Examples are the underrated IQ booster of the universe."

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 Each technical paper I have to read lately serves as another inductive step proving this bromide.  Ugh.
Friday, February 18, 2011

Navy death ray

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/unexpectedly-navys-superlaser-blasts-away-a-record/ The free-electron laser is one of the Navy’s h...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Best thing in Zurich so far: Bowmore 18.

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Unusual for an Islay: not much iodine, fruity, long finish. Going to get a bottle when I get back in the states. In other news: walked a...

For christmas: a glass as big as a bottle! And Macallan 18 is good.

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I'm not going to spend $130 on a real bottle of it, but it had a nice, clean, dry taste.  More will be procured at some point.
Friday, December 24, 2010

Teacher's Highland Cream: Good blended whisky for less than $20

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I used to hate scotch, whisky, whiskey, bourbon (well, still do) and anything else that tasted of alcohol from many years of being a bouncer...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Actionable advice in case of nuclear explosion

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/science/16terror.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck N...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Whiskey party.

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One way to spend a few hours on a saturday: sampling from several thousands dollars worth of scotch (mostly not mine). Various conclusions...