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Yes, it’s snowing on Christmas Day here. I think it’s because we watched White Christmas last night. “They don’t make ‘em like they used to” is a phrase that certainly comes to mind when watching that movie. It’s not the best of musicals, but it’s interesting to note that it was the highest-grossing film in [...]

When I was a kid, it was a family tradition to pile into the car and drive around the neighborhood looking at Christmas lights. Tracie and I continue to observe this tradition. There are some pretty good displays near our house, particularly in the somewhat ritzy golf-course neighborhood next to ours.
One display this year, though, [...]

Here’s a word whose existence I did not know of until today: pangram. A pangram is a sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet. There’s a website about them here that has a list of them, both longer and shorter than the old standby about the quick brown fox.

For the amusement of people who don’t live in snowy climates, here are more photos of the snow. These were all taken in the back yard.

The snow stopped for a day and returned last night. It’s still snowing now (10:25MST). Here are some more photos.

A nice amount of cold, fluffy snow fell here last night. The accumulation was around 15cm, I think. Here’s a photo taken from one of the front windows of the house:

It’s been cold, too. The low temperature last night was 10F and the high today was 19F.

Chris led me to believe that I must truly live under a large rock because I’d never heard of the hilarious I Can Has Cheezburger site. I thought I’d mention it here anyway, just in case any other sub-rock dwellers visit my blog. The idea is that people upload silly photos of cats (mostly–there are [...]

I meant to mention when I put up the photo of the origami unit below that there are a few new photos in the Paper Jade photo gallery of some stuff I’ve folded in recent months. I’m particularly proud of the 90-unit truncated icosahedron (photo second from the top) which was, I might say, pretty [...]

PACE is a form of copy protection used by many music software companies. It’s nearly ubiquitous in professional audio software. Unfortunately it is also invasive, prone to malfunction, expensive, and–like all forms of copy protection–ultimately ineffective. When I upgraded my music PC with a new motherboard, CPU, hard drive, and graphics card recently, I decided [...]