Author: Snapping Links

slightly overweight people have the lowest death rates, then normal weight, then obese & underweight. how odd. according to their calculator, the weight I’ve plateaued at for the last week+ is just under the wire of a normal BMI. which means, technically,

(tags: health personal science weird)

via Dylan W. this was very helpful today.

(tags: css design grid)

sizes of banners. the math on placing these in the same design doesn’t seem to work, unless I’m missing something.

(tags: grid reference)

also very useful. also via Dylan.

(tags: grid photoshoppery)

(text in Spanish) I like the ones with the little penguins, and the whole exercise reminds me of the Keds I wore through junior high, because of marching band, which always eventually got covered with 4-color ballpoint scrawls.

(tags: design weird personal arts)

beautiful. reminds me of…can’t remember his name. mexican-style artist who I saw at Tacoma Art Museum 15 yrs ago. would love to see her do something with LA maps.

(tags: arts)

alas, unsurprising to me. I spent 6 years working in a concrete bunker, and the building I’m in now had to have film put over the windows, when what it really needed was to have been designed with awnings.

(tags: architecture)

surprisingly easy.

(tags: photoshoppery)

I like the look of that thermos-style bento.

(tags: food recipes to-do photography)

cool & weird

(tags: photography illustrator photoshoppery reference)

heh.

(tags: clothes funny mac)

I saw it last night! No, it didn’t look that cool, but I found it with the naked eye while standing in my backyard, and again w/binoculars. A definite greenish tinge, and a bit smudged in comparison to the nearby stars.

(tags: science personal)

(tags: intranet to-read)

This is something I want…although I also want a victorian-style monument. I love those. (Strange but true: for 16 years of my life I have lived just a short walk from a cemetery. I find them beautiful.)

(tags: personal eco)

The neighborhood association does this! I had no idea there was a national center for it.

(tags: ena eco local olympia bicycling)

I have been a NASA fan since I was a little kid (even tho humans haven’t walked on the moon in my lifetime), so this is very nice to see.

(tags: standards science)

1) what, no greater f*ckwad theory? 2) imagine that, Calacanis & Winer being jerks. 😉 3) hey, that’s my buddy Dylan.

(tags: blogosphere society personal local seattle)

always good to have another rounded corners technique at the ready.

(tags: css)

architectural hardwoods – source for really nice plywood. I thought I’d already tagged this, but it was only in my email. (apple-ply is the brand we saw in use, see misc. sheet.)

(tags: home kitchen)

re: sub-saharan africa — imagine if the whole city of Olympia had 1 or 2 doctors. the whole city.

(tags: gis health society)

That’s a really good idea. I definitely need to be preparing lunches ahead of time, especially for those days when I want to go in early & exercise.

(tags: food rice to-do)

Ralph is very actively seeking employment. If you are reading this & looking for a smart front end web guy in the NJ area or remote, you should check him out. (prodded by a post from Shelley.)

(tags: jobs blogosphere web_dev)

bias continues apace, alas.

(tags: gender work society)

standards/browser wars make baby jesus cry.

(tags: javascripty browsers politics)

“the program’s popularity has created a $34.5 million budget shortfall at Washington’s community and technical colleges” — okay, I’m going to say it: I told you so. (not “you” specifically, but generically.) I’ve been saying that RS is key in the FTE cri

(tags: academia local)

“seasonal depression and mood disorders become more prevalent […] also toward the western edges of time zones” Hmm. Puget Sound is northerly, cloudy & at the W edge of PST. Also, I’d go nuts w/out my light on the timer, goes off 15 mins before alarm.

(tags: health depression science local)

okay, I’m totally drooling now.

(tags: food meat fish potatoes recipes)

hmmm. I’m not sure yet what I make of it. Some very anti-usability themes, which I don’t quite understand.

(tags: philosophizing misc_tech)

If Joe & Mark were in the same room, would the universe implode? I think I find their writing entirely fascinating in exactly the same way, if in entirely opposite directions.

(tags: design philosophizing blogosphere funny misc_tech)

I hate hate hate the TPL system’s opac. Both ugly and annoying.

(tags: library misc_tech web_dev)

I have to figure out how to do this to my truck.

(tags: truck car eco)

Critical things to remember. (Also, by way of a plug for a friend, these are all covered in Shelley’s Adding Ajax book.)

(tags: javascripty accessibility standards)

jeez. we ended up getting a better price on my (much-loved) little red truck by calling a friend and having him do some research. it also didn’t help that C threatened to leave and actually stood and started walking away. I ::heart:: C.

(tags: car weird psychology marketing)

no kidding. which would explain why I was in such an overwhelmingly bad mood yesterday. (today has been somewhat better.)

(tags: depression science)

(tags: money personal reference)

I vaguely remember just after my 2nd interview at Pierce chatting with my future colleagues & boss about kids, marriage and the like. It occurred to me afterward that it probably wasn’t kosher.

(tags: jobs)

amen.

(tags: accessibility)

apparently annual vaccinations may not be necessary? that makes me feel like a much better person.

(tags: cats)

“I hereby declare the interviewees the two most articulate teenagers on the internet.” which may not be saying much 🙂 but still entirely fascinating

(tags: religion society)

“The strangest comet to burst onto the celestial scene in our lifetime is easy to see with your bare eyes” — allegedly, our weather is supposed to improve this week, too. keep your fingers crossed for me.

(tags: science personal to-do)

OMG.

(tags: lego urban_studies weird)

dunno if I want to upgrade yet.

(tags: mac to-read)

I might try that next time.

(tags: email-newsletter)