From today’s Wikipedia daily article, a melancholy anniversary:
1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys recorded the last entry in his diary.
Pepys’s diary lives on today in blog form, in which he has reached 31 May 1663.
From today’s Wikipedia daily article, a melancholy anniversary:
1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys recorded the last entry in his diary.
Pepys’s diary lives on today in blog form, in which he has reached 31 May 1663.
From William Bartholomew, GTD with Vim,
a file-type plug-in and syntax file for the Vim editor that provides readers of David Allen’s book, “Getting Things Done”, a way to manage their task lists from within Vim.
(via Merlin)
Tammara over at blogging.la has posted a keen story about whether or not you can just pick and eat roadside/trailside Wild Fennel here in SoCal:
So I did some research and alas, it’s a different variety that we toss in salads and stew with tomatoes to make a yummy sauce. Our hillside weed is too woody to do anything other than flavor the food. It’s great for using as a bed to grill fish and other vegetables to impart that smoky anise flavor. In the summer when the thing flowers, you can take a paper bag, put it over the flowerhead and tap it a couple of times to get pollen. Use the pollen as a spice on fresh zucchini and just about anything else. It’s a taste that will really send you.
Good to know! By the way, if you see one of these plants on the side of the trail —
or one of these —
do not under any circumstances give them a taste. :)
From Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, “Notes: Club worries about Kent’s injury”
ATLANTA — Lingering pain and swelling in Jeff Kent’s left hand has the club concerned enough to schedule an MRI for Thursday morning to rule out any fractures that were not noticed on an X-ray taken Saturday.
“He’s a little better today, but not good enough to play,” manager Grady Little said of Kent, who left Saturday’s game after two innings and hasn’t played since….
Which sucks, of course, but check this out:
Little said he’s comfortable with the flexibility that exists with Ramon Martinez and Willy Aybar on the roster, but if Kent is out much longer, a familiar name could soon be ready to fill in — Cesar Izturis.
Now how would that be for timing?
There is more silicon in the Earth’s crust than any other element, except oxygen. Its atomic number is 14, its symbol is Si, and its melting point is 1414 degrees celsius.
From the Periodic Table at the Los Alamos Labs:
Silicon is one of man’s most useful elements. In the form of sand and clay it is used to make concrete and brick; it is a useful refractory material for high-temperature work, and in the form of silicates it is used in making enamels, pottery, etc. Silica, as sand, is a principal ingredient of glass, one of the most inexpensive of materials with excellent mechanical, optical, thermal, and electrical properties. Glass can be made in a very great variety of shapes, and is used as containers, window glass, insulators, and thousands of other uses. Silicon tetrachloride can be used as iridize glass.
See also silicon articles at: