Monthly Archives: December 2007

“Of all the Russias” (well, actually NYC-area airports)

By susan | Published: December 19, 2007
From the New York Times:  The Federal Aviation Administration will also create a ”czar” for New York City air travel, hoping to solve some of the confusion and headaches with a new position.  Can we please put a moratorium on non-Czar related uses of the word czar?  Whence this trend of calling U.S. government officials “czars”?  Although [...]
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I find this incredibly difficult to believe.

By susan | Published: December 15, 2007
“We had trouble spending all our money.” Umm, yeah. I realize that you’re getting a nice return on your pounds stirling and all, what with the U.S. dollar being in the toilet, etc., but come on, people! This is New York City! I’m sorry, but if you can’t spend all your money here then either [...]
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Fun interface

By susan | Published: December 14, 2007
This etsy color-driven interface is quite fun. Usually I think that more complicated interfaces (especially flash-driven ones) are more hindrance than help, but in this case it doesn’t seem like overkill. The two problems with it, however, are that it’s unclear when you might need something of a specific color but not care what that [...]
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Badenov wikipedia

By susan | Published: December 10, 2007
I’m giving a talk tomorrow (info/abstract below the fold) which required me to find an image of Boris Badenov (don’t ask — it’s to illustrate an example slide). I went to his wikipedia entry, and found, to my delight, that someone has taken the time to create a long list of disguises that Boris has [...]
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Fire Exting Atsher Box

By susan | Published: December 5, 2007
Fire Exting Atsher Box, originally uploaded by thatgirl.
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Little bell pasta

By susan | Published: December 3, 2007
My new favorite kind of pasta is called campanelle, which means little bell in Italian. It’s listed as a “specialty collection” pasta at Barilla, which I really hope does not mean that it will some day disappear. The pieces look like some kind of non-delicate flower, like a lily or some other flower that doesn’t [...]
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