The downside to wearing contact lenses is that some days I forget which ones I’m wearing. So, when I reach up to rub an itch away from my eye, I either end up pushing my contact lens up under my eyelid (very uncomfortable) or leaving a big, greasy smear on my glasses.
Lasik, anyone?
thoughts
Contacts or Glasses
Urine Humidity
It’s rather disturbing when you step into your small horse barn to feed the animals and realize that it’s humid, but that the reason it’s humid is because all that urine is evaporating. The thought that then runs through your head is, “Ewwww, I’m walking through a fine mist of horse pee!”
It’s a thought that’s best [...]
Halo 3 Webcomics
I’m pleased to announce the official launch of Halo 3 Webcomics, a collective for other Halo 3 comics writers to share their stories. It’s my opinion that one of the biggest barriers to publishing a webcomic is affordable hosting. I’m donating space on my server for anyone who wants to publish a Halo-based webcomic to [...]
Creative Commons on Photographs
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love digital media. Most of my hobbies involve something to do with the Internet in one form or another, and just recently I reworked my photoblog with a new theme and fresh photos updating every day.
The trouble comes in with dishonest folks who like to ‘borrow’ other [...]
Apocalyptica
Recently, a friend of mine turned me on to a band called Apocalyptica (thanks, Oboe). Long-time readers of this blog know I’m a huge fan of classical music and not such a huge fan of most forms of popular music. Being a musician myself, I’m rather particular about the types of music I enjoy and [...]
HowTo: Install Ghostscript on MediaTemple
I thought I’d go ahead and describe the process for installing Ghostscript on a MediaTemple (dv) server, especially since I’ve already got one reader who would like to see it.
Use your favorite shell client to log on to your (mt) account as root. I use PuTTY Portable from the portableapps.com website. At the command line typ:
cd /usr
Type:
wget [...]
Fractional Canceling Error
I love this post from Matt Spring on Built on Facts the other day. In it he describes a mathematical manipulation on a test that “he think[s] should almost be worth negative points.” In this case it was a student who took the part on the left side, cancelled the m to get the [...]
Now with LaTeX! (Again)
One of the things I have really enjoyed about having my website on a MediaTemple server is the fact that I now have full root access (via SSH), which means I have more control over my own setup. The downside of this is that I’m still learning a lot of the basics of how to [...]
Photo Shamus
If you haven’t seen it already, I have a photoblog. I haven’t really pointed at it much, since up until recently I hadn’t had a ready supply of photos to post to it and the content was generally pretty stale. Fortunately, my housemate bought a nice digital SLR camera a little while back and has [...]