Generating Excel Charts
I’m about to create a whole bunch of excel charts, and it would be nice if
I could do it automatically. There might be some useful information here
about how to do that.
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Using a rebozo
I tend to be interested in slings. I was taking to Carrie (hi Carrie!)
about them the other day, which got me thinking about them again. I like
the idea of the very straightforward ‘big piece of cloth’ carriers. Here’s a page with many wonderful pictures of how to use a
carrier of this type.
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Geometric Tools: Source Code for Computer Graphics, Image Analysis and
Numerical Methods
This looks like it might have
lots of interesting code.
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3D object intersection
Here’s a nice chart
of links to object intersection code for various objects (triangle, cone,
etc.).
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Ways to deal with frozen foods
Sometimes, even if I have a pretty good understanding of something
already, it’s nice to have all of the facts and info laid out in an easy
to access format. This
page does a good job of providing clear information and instructions
on defrosting food (which is ‘unthawing’ to me- and yes, I know
it’s backwards) and cooking food from frozen.
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How to Juggle
Every once and a while I try to upgrade my juggling skills. I’m a slow
learner. At the moment, I can juggle three balls about 4 times in a row,
and then off they go. I’m going back to two ball exercises to see if that
helps. I thought this
site had some really nice animations of how it all works.
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54 Ways to Help the Homeless
From reading that last article, I found this e-book
54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless. I haven’t read the whole thing yet,
so it may have ideas that I don’t agree with, but from what I saw it was
fairly basic and straightforward.
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Housing the homeless
Homelessness is an issue that I think about- I think it’s an important
societal issue, I think it’s a test case for societal attitudes, and on a
day to day level, I feel concern for the people I see who are homeless. In
my readings on the topic, I’m particular interested in ideas to help
people who are chronically homeless, which from what I understand is often
a result of mental illness and/or drug and alcohol addiction.
Programs
to help the homeless are often predicated on people not being on drugs or
alcohol, and also on the premise that people have to be ‘doing something
to help themselves’. Although practical reasons tend to be given for these
restrictions, I feel uncomfortable with them, because to me they are
combining assistance with judgement. Gift giving with strings attached.
That’s why I’m glad to come across programs like Pathways to
Housing. In this New York program, the premise is that housing has to
come first. As the article says, the program “[has] the philosophy that
before someone can work toward recovery or employment, a safe, comfortable
home is necessary.”
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The Deal on Battery Recycling
We have a bunch of old batteries sitting around in a bag, mainly because I
have no idea what to do with them. At long last, I’ve done some research
into the matter and discovered a few things. First of all, Ottawa only has
places that recycle rechareable batteries (with the exception of MEC and
Ikea, which take back batteries purchased from their stores). However,
according to
this useful article, non-rechargeable (A, AA, etc.) batteries that
were manufactured after 1997 are low toxicity, and can be thrown in the
garbage.
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