Being Haomself

"The Perfect Salary for Happiness: $75,000"

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:48:58 -0500

“The Perfect Salary for Happiness: $75,000”

- The Perfect Salary for Happiness: $75,000 - The Wealth Report - WSJ

mounting remote file system via ssh -sshfs

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:09:13 -0500

sudo apt-get install sshfs
sudo adduser yourusername fuse
sudo mkdir /mnt/remotedir
sudo chown yourusername /mnt/remotedir
sshfs yourusername@remote_computer_ip:/path_on_remote_comp /mnt/remotedir

original instructions here

joelaz: RE_VINYL, by Pavel Sidorenko Wall clocks, laser cut...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:11:10 -0500

joelaz:

RE_VINYL, by Pavel Sidorenko

Wall clocks, laser cut from recycled records.

szymon: wheel umbrella from yu-ting cheng, yu-hsun chung and...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:40:11 -0500

szymon:

wheel umbrella from yu-ting cheng, yu-hsun chung and shaw-chen chen

jmattx: Book Wheel: or the Library Wheel and the Human Hamster...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:36:36 -0500

jmattx:

Book Wheel: or the Library Wheel and the Human Hamster - Not sure if this is more a social commentary on something or just a cool idea (via szymon / Book Wheel)

jmattx: Sculptured Fruit :: This rocks just because it does! -...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:35:29 -0500

jmattx:

Sculptured Fruit :: This rocks just because it does! - Part of great Calgary Farmers’ Market adv (via szymon)

szymon: watermelon helmet by Fulvio Bonavia

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:10:36 -0500

szymon:

watermelon helmet by Fulvio Bonavia

"Distressed Ravens Show That Consolation Is For The Birds, Too"

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:05:43 -0500

“Distressed Ravens Show That Consolation Is For The Birds, Too”

- Distressed Ravens Show That Consolation Is For The Birds, Too : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

jmattx: Dinosaur Sweater by Mouthman (via szymon) - Wish I had...

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:14:47 -0500

jmattx:

Dinosaur Sweater by Mouthman (via szymon) - Wish I had this as a kid - simple and totally awesome

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Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:24:11 -0500

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Venter team creates first synthetic living cell (via Venter team...

Fri, 21 May 2010 04:57:28 -0500

Venter team creates first synthetic living cell (via Venter team creates first synthetic living cell | TG Daily)

"stellate ganglion block for PTSD. How could it work? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20412504"

Sun, 02 May 2010 21:12:33 -0500

“stellate ganglion block for PTSD. How could it work? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20412504”

- Pentagon Scientists Inject Necks to ‘Cure’ PTSD | Danger Room | Wired.com

Ice Discovered on Asteroid, Suggests Earth’s Oceans Came From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:32:18 -0500

Ice Discovered on Asteroid, Suggests Earth’s Oceans Came From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com

"PowerPoint’s worst offense is … rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a..."

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:29:21 -0500

“PowerPoint’s worst offense is … rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict’s causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces.”

- Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com

"essential oil from thyme - a spice frequently used in Mediterranean cooking - killed almost all of..."

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:49:27 -0500

“essential oil from thyme - a spice frequently used in Mediterranean cooking - killed almost all of the bacterium in a petri dish within an hour. Almost as effective was cinnamon oil.”

- Study: Plant Oils Highly Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria | Health | English

Create poster using R and Openoffice on Kubuntu

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:21:31 -0500

To generate eps files in R:

postscript(file ="xx.eps", onefile=F, paper=special, height=xx, width=xx)

To generate poster in Openoffice Impress:
set page size

To import eps files with preview into Impress:

#!/bin/sh
outfile=`basename $1 .eps`_so.eps
pstools -t6p $1 $outfile

To print to PDF:
Install cups-pdf package
print on A0 paper

rename Drosophila melanogaster to Sophophora melanogaster. This...

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:52:28 -0500

rename Drosophila melanogaster to Sophophora melanogaster. This means updating hundreds of databases and dozens of genome sequences, and dealing with the fact that most existing scientific literature refers to this species by a different name. (via Demotion commotion: First Pluto, now fruit flies?)

CDC’s Smoking Robot Has 2-Pack an Hour Habit | Magazine

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:41:58 -0500

CDC’s Smoking Robot Has 2-Pack an Hour Habit | Magazine

Creat "Send via Kmail" menu item in Dolphin

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:07:00 -0500

I’ve been feeling the need of such a menu item for a while. It finally bugged me enough to Google it. And it turns out to be very easy to do: Here is the link

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Icon=dolphin
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,all/allfiles

Actions=Send_to_KMail
X-KDE-menu=Email
X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel

[Desktop Action Send_to_KMail]
Name=Send file(s) with KMail
Exec=kmail --attach %U
Icon=kmail

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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:29:39 -0500

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