Not an ink and pen test: Pelikan M320 and Noodler’s Red-Black.

Not an ink and pen test: Pelikan M320 and Noodler’s Red-Black.

I kept putting this off, so I decided to just do it already. Please disregard the blotting mishaps and the single strand of cat fur. Sigh. Click to embiggen.

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Posted on 16 Mar 2011 | Comments Off

Plain English Nuclear: Yet another Japan reactor post

A nuclear engineer explains clearly and thoroughly what happened with Japan’s nuclear reactors due to the earthquake. Please read and circulate!

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Avoiding, embracing email: one week later

Here is my one-week check-in for my Avoid, Embrace project on email. So far, the biggest change I have made is in filtering out forwards into their own folder. In Gmail, I used this filter to do the trick: from:(email address of forwarder | email address of another forwarder) to:(-my email address) Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "SA/Forwards" I chose to deal with them as “announcements” per ActiveInbox‘s built-in label category, but you can use anything you like. Filtered out into their own folder, I can look at the subject lines and delete accordingly. Now the only items in my “Someday” category are things I want to legitimately do or review someday. This is a huge win! The “Time” labels have been somewhat helpful, but...

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Posted on 16 Mar 2011 | Comments Off