ruby on rails

It’s always the little things. After working through a complete install of rails on Mac OSX Tiger, following the excellent steps on this page, and then creating a test application a la these directions, I still couldn’t get my browser to recognize my application. Yes I would get the “Welcome Aboard” message when connecting to… Continue reading →

anoxia

On a random search for some of my online references, I came across this page from the EHP journal which has (one screen up from the bottom of the page) a picture I snapped here in the lab and sent to somebody, I guess, ’cause there it is. The blurb mentions “two California museums” which,… Continue reading →

snail (friend of boy’s surface)

Christopher and I were discussing the intersection of surface topology (we both preferred the left as puffier) and inflationary cosmology (based on the recent results from WMAP). CR felt this further undermined the “universe as white hole” approach, comparing it to nested russian dolls. I suggested it was more like Boy’s surface, which got us… Continue reading →

surreal 

nine tenths of the armies lost their pens
and had to break chocolates for breakfast

nine tenths of my heart dreams of seville
riding the streetcars that circle her bed

as detectives prod their grisly valentine

stylin’

CSS Zen Garden is a site that uses only CSS to change the layout of the page. Click on the various css links and watch the design change. And no, Dorothy, those aren’t different pages. Now, the designs are a bit busy for my taste (as opposed to many more minimal WordPress Themes, but I… Continue reading →