Sky Full Of Fish

Backyard Remodel

denis — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:20:50 +0000

Last weekend, my friends Joe, Tony, Chris and I started the ambitious project of removing all the concrete in our backyard.

Five and a half hours later, with the help of the Brute and the bar we managed to break it all up!

The area that we broke up was 50 feet deep, on average 10 feet wide and on average 4.5 inches thick. That’s 7 cubic yards or 189 cubic feet (5.4 cubic meters). With concrete weighing on average 150 pounds per cubic feet, that’s 28350 pounds (12860 kg) or 14 ton.

See these pictures too.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup Prompts Considerably More Weight Gain

denis — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:53:20 +0000

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

Read the whole article here

Candlelit miniature Kamakura

denis — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:48:24 +0000

CANDLELIT HUTS: A visitor took photos of the candlelit miniature Kamakura, or snow huts, on Monday during the Kamakura Snow Festival in Japan. In the 400-year-old folk event, local children offer sweet sake and grilled rice cakes to visitors as they invite them into the snow huts to worship the god of water at an alter carved inside.(Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)
via WSJ

The Future

denis — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:41:42 +0000

via forgreatjustice

iPhone Mail client: multiple From addresses

denis — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:25:45 +0000

When you have multiple email addresses you might want to select which sender should be used when sending an email from your iPhone. To do this you can add some ‘dummy’ accounts, with different email addresses or you can use this little trick, which I keep forgetting about myself.

First, copy a ‘comma’ into the iPhone copy-and-paste buffer (see how to copy and paste ), for example from the ‘write new message’ screen:

Now insert multiple email address into the Settings→Mail,Contacts,Calendars→Account→Address screen. We need to ‘paste’ the comma because the keyboard that’s available on this screen does not contain a comma:

You can enter multiple email addresses, each separated by a comma.

The ‘…’ will show there’s more text:

Now, compose an email:

Click on Cc/Bcc, From: to get the drop-down of email addresses you entered earlier:

And there you go! Email away!

I am the salamander king

denis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:59:51 +0000

I am the salamander king. I can do anything.

Springtime in January

denis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:55:29 +0000

trees are flowering after a week or two of rain

Cooking with Edward Espe Brown

denis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:28:49 +0000

Thanks to Patty for organizing a wonderful cooking session with Ed Brown. We met last Saturday at Patty’s house in Santa Cruz. The food was amazing, there were great people.

Vegetarian Chinese Restaurant

denis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:04:20 +0000

Garden Fresh in Mountain View serves these ‘imitation’ meat dishes. Never had this type of food before. It’s quite tasty: scallion pancakes and my new favorite Kung-Pao chicken.

new espresso machine

denis — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0000

introducing the rancilio silva- taken into production this a.m.