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Recent blog posts
Paper, or, Why Imperial Units are Awful
I went to buy paper today. If you haven’t recently had the unfortunate experience of trying to buy something other than “plain ol’ copy paper”, then let me tell you - it’s a jungle out there. I first looked at some card stock, and that’s where my troubles began. The heaviness of the paper was listed in both Imperial (pounds) and metric units (grams per square meter). My curiosity got the best of me, and…
The problem with recipes
A recipe is a lot like a computer program. Half of you already know what I mean; the other half of you are going to need some convincing. Below is a recipe for banana cookies: 3/4 cup margerine 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1 tsp vanilla dash of cinnamon 1 egg 320 g of bananas 1 tsp baking powder 150 g oatmeal dash of salt 320 g flour Cream together margerine and…
Being single (part two)
After re-reading and discussing my previous “single” post with several people, I realized that I left out something important - my own feelings and struggles as a single person. My post carries a somewhat detached and intellectual perspective, and it suggests that I have understood everything I wrote for quite some time, or at least that I’ve got it figured out now. Nothing could be further from the truth. I wrote those words to articulate…
