Refenestration Daily.
I’ve quite enjoyed the Meetups that I’ve been to so far, including Slashdot and other topics.
In case you’re not familiar with the idea, people sign up with Meetup for their interests, and the system matches people up so that they can meet as a group.
Anyhow, I thought that some of the bloggers may be interested in the Dallas Meetup for Digicams. Right now, there’re only three people signed up (myself and revjim included), so we need more people :).
From this MetaFilter thread on the subjunctive tense is this analysis of baby talk (that is, the means by which parents talk to babies). There’re some amusing bits on the whumsicality of baby talk:
A third parental tool for “keeping the conversation going” with very young children is to assume the role of both speaker and hearer by asking the question, presuming the response, and continuing the discourse (“Would you like me to burp you? Yes? I thought that was the problem. There, that's better”). […]
Red Hat is preparing the next version of its distribution, code-named Null. They’re working on unifying the look, to an extent, between KDE and Gnome (and I have no problem with that).
However, the big news for me came in the form of these KDE screenshots from the Null beta: the fonts look amazing. For instance, the fonts in this menu screenshot look almost OSX-good to the naked eye :).
Whether it’s KDE, a Red Hat configuration, or something else, I’m not sure which software is responsible for those fonts looking so good — but I would be very interested in trying a distribution that could do fonts like that.
(See also this Slashdot story on Red Hat’s upcoming release)
As mentioned in the KDE 3.1 Beta accouncement, KDE apparently has a set of User Interface Guidelines (à la Apple’s now-famous user-interface guidelines).
I’m pleased to see such a development in the Unix world. After all, it's not that I really need yet-another utility to parse text files ;), but I think that a healthy dose of UI rediscovery could do wonders towards the acceptance of Linux and other Unices.
As planned, I made an omelette this morning. However, it didn’t quite turn out as planned.
Re-reading the directions, I’ve already realized one of my errors. I thought that they said to make the pan as hot as possible (‘As hot as you dare’), then add the butter, then add the eggs. However, they actually say to heat the pan, add the butter, then to turn up the heat really high.
What happened with me is that, because the pan was on full-heat, the butter boiled off and became brown almost instantly :(. So, I turned down the heat (but only a little), and added some more butter. That lasted a bit longer, but was becoming brown very quickly. So, I poured in the eggs that I had pre-mixed, and they cooked almost instantly. Well, actually, the bottom of the eggs cooked almost instatly (almost to the point of burning) while the top remained runny.
So, I quickly added the filling (tomotoes and cheese). I let the omelette cook just a bit more, in an attempt to halfway-cook the top side of the eggs. I remembered from the directions that “an omelette will go on cooking even on the plate&rdquo, so I transferred the omelette to the plate before the eggs were completely cooked.
But, I may have had too much filling in there — four tomato-slices diced, plus cheese — so I ended up with a crumbled omelette. And, it was nearly burnt on the bottom-side, but a touch raw on the top side.
Next time, I’ll be sure to only turn up the heat after the butter has melted. And, I’ll also use more eggs (I used just two eggs this time around, which underwhelmed the filling).
