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Bacon grease
Mmmmm…..bacon grease… We’ve been saving bacon grease for a while now and using it in cooking. There is something very satisfying about taking something that you might otherwise throw away and re-using it. We use it frequently in place of butter for greasing a pan to be used on the stovetop. Most recently for pancakes [...]
Project Euler and Math
I’ve always had the sense that there was a lot of math out there that I didn’t know. There is a great deal of graphics math and crypto math and others that I’ve never felt I had much reason to explore – but I recently realized that there’s value in looking into some of this [...]
Add To Yojimbo with AppleScript
I’ve started using Yojimbo more as an Anything Bucket and I wanted an easy way to get stuff into it. I found several AppleScripts and they were all good, but they were for individual applications. I try to minimize how much I have to think about routine stuff – I’d much rather have code that [...]
View in Readability AppleScript
I’ve been using Readability for a while now and it’s an amazingly cool tool. I highly recommend it for anyone who reads anything online. In the interest of making things easier and more streamlined I’ve written an AppleScript that can load pages in Readability from various sources. The script is smart and “does the right [...]
Get Current Application with AppleScript
My recent applescript development required different action based on what application was currently active. Surprisingly, there is no good result for this from google. I pulled this out of a Daring Fireball code example (Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit) and am showcasing it so that others who are looking for the [...]
Rebooting the blog
After letting it languish for well over a year, I’ve decided to return to the blog. I’ve realized that my life is marked by consumption. I’m subscribed to hundreds of blogs, I listen to audio books, I watch movies and videos online – but it’s all passive. There’s no synthesis. There’s no creation. I know [...]
Life After (Fake) Death
When I try to remember how I got here I keep coming back to the day I faked my own death to avoid a meeting with my lawyer.
Prince of Fun and Hijinks
Frederico, Prince of Fun and Hijinks, knew one thing and knew it well – ordinary times called for extraordinary measures.
Teaching Grammar
Gregory has really been picking up words lately and his sentence structure is really growing. On the whole, he’s doing well, he does stumble a bit over irregular verbs. Gregory: Daddy’s belt was hanged up! Me: No, Gregory, Daddy’s belt was hung up. Belts are hung, people are hanged.
The Long Dark Coffee-Time of the Blog
Quiet has it been here for a few months. Busy have I been. Busy with the house Busy with work. Busy with life. Why is it coffee-time? Because coffee is the drink of choice. It’s where the caffeine grows. What does this all mean? The quiet is broken. Some words are coming. May they disjointed [...]