I apoogize for the lack of posts. Getting a decent Internet connection has been a bit tough.
Author Archives: sandro
In France
Kim and I have been in France for a day now. While we haven’t done much more than walk through the city in the evening; so far Paris is as lovely as I remember. I snapped a quick photo from the “Pont de Tuilleries” last night, that hopefully will show up along side this post …
Fat
I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been (approx. 285lbs). Sigh. Time to really make a change. I’m going to try to post regularly to see if I can humiliate myself thinner.
TOP: Get and use a Leica
Over at The Online Photographer blog there’s been a bit of a ruckus over their suggestion to spend a year using a Leica to develop photo skills. I think their suggestion is valid, and mostly a reasonable (if somewhat inconvenient) thing to do. You can find the initial and follow-up posts here: The Leica as …
Trailing-Edge Geekdom
As snolan pointed out in a recent comment, I’m a geek. Specifically, I’m a technology geek. but I don’t insist that only the latest and greatest tech is always the best (or most interesting). I love bicycles, photography, and even horology. In fact I have a decent retro-bent going these days. I ride an old, …
TeX and Me
I just wanted to document how I installed TeX on my MacBook Air. I grabbed and installed BasicTeX-2008 from the MacTeX folks. TeX binaries were installed in: /usr/local/texlive/2008basic/bin/universal-darwin. So I added that directory to my path. Next I updated the installed packages: tlmgr update bin-texlive texlive.infra tlmgr update –all Since the ACM style file seems …
Sandro’s Freshwater Aquarium
It started innocently enough, I wanted a 36 gallon bow front tank, and Kim wanted to find me another nice christmas gift (we got each other a couple things each). She got a great deal on craigslist (on x-mas eve no less). A 36 gallon bow-front with stand for $100. Of course a month later …
Cholesterol Numbers
My latest blood work is back, and I have new cholesterol numbers: Triglycerides: 121 HDL Cholesterol: 41 VLDL Cholesterol: 24 LDL Cholesterol: 57 Total Cholesterol: 122 Sweet! Total cholesterol is down from about 214, which is a pretty massive reduction (thanks to Lipitor).
Love is a Warm Scanner
I have too much paper. Between various old documents, bills, statements, and magazines there’s reams of paper cluttering up my life. While I’ve been shifting as much as possible to paperless solutions where possible, the paper still accumulates. That’s why I love my Fujitsu ScanSnap. It’s a little scanner that tames the paper piles. While …
Magically Multiplying Fish Tanks
Kim received a “free” fish tank from my buddy Rob last fall. In the past 5 months that single tank has magically expanded into 4 separate fish tanks: Kim’s 29 gallon Freshwater Hex My 3 gallon Freshwater Eclipse My 46 gallon (Empty) Bow-Front Kim’s 29 gallon Saltwater Reef BioCube Here’s a new page of pictures …