recipe: koofteh berenji
this recipe comes from a Persian family who say that the differences between it and e.g. this recipe are to speed up making it. as in, ain t no one got time for all those steps! some of the key changes: Continue reading
An Atypical Life
the life and times of Joan Touzet
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welp
apparently i still haven t moved off of wordpress. it s at least patched and old cruft deleted. still, what a pain
I’m here…
I m alive, but I don t have a lot to blog right now. And what I really want to do next is to get off of WordPress.
flotation tank – the experience
Friday night I went in my first flotation tank experience. A bunch of you, and friends on IRC, asked me what it was like, so here s my attempt at writing it up. Content warnings: Minor health issues and recent traumatic Continue reading
ecchi – a memorial
Last night, my beloved feline companion of 15 years, Ecchi, died. I want to tell her story now. The associated picture gallery is mostly in chronological order, and covers her entire life. Ecchi was born sometime in 2002, most likely, Continue reading
reading k2000 / k2500 / k2600 / k2661 cdroms on a pc for free
Not too long ago my last SCSI CD-ROM drive failed. I still have a number of Kurzweil CDROM discs with useful sample libraries on them that I ve been unable to read as a result they were made prior to Continue reading
pdp-11 data transfer via kermit, rx50
details: https://gist.github.com/wohali/8d28e251ccb58c50b441 a fruitful weekend project. RoVa3D / ORD MH3000 content will return after my next trip abroad.
part 1: MH3000 / RoVa3D tools & setup
A while back I went in halfsies on an MH3000 KickStarter printer from ORD Solutions, just down the road in Cambridge, ON. As there s still under 100 of these printers out there, it can be a bit hard to find Continue reading
Understanding race-induced conflicts in CouchDB 2.x
Update: This was originally written about BigCouch and Buttant, prior to the release of CouchDB 2.0. Everything in this writeup applies to CouchDB 2.x as well. Distributed databases with a near-real-time multi-master configuration – such as BigCouch, coming soon to Apache Continue reading
Hello world!
This is a test post for integration with Planet CouchDB, the aggregator for all things bloggy and CouchDB-related. I m excited to be a part of the group!