Fragano @ #142:
For my annual "Snooper reports" (in short, look at packets arriving at non-responsive IP addresses, correlate this with vulnerability reports, see if there are any obvious connections), I start by doing all the "bulk" (read and parse all the data into interactive data munging environment), generate some graphs (in said environment), do some trend-spotting (again, data-munging environment) and dump out what looks like places where activity peaks.
Once that's done, the boring bit starts, correlating peaking activity to vulnerabilities. My general aim is to do half a month every day.
First time, it took me roughly 6 weeks getting it all done, but I had to manufacture a lot of the tools needed. Second time, I think I was down to ~3 weeks all told.
I guess that my thesis-writing advice is "it gets easier by the third time you do it"?
abi @ #32:
That might be a doable thing, indeed (now that I've managed to get my fix).
While I do have a wee touch of SAD, mine usually starts manifesting around midsummer, when (southern) Britain is depressingly dark, compared to what I am used to. See, I expect Midsummer to never really get dark, what with dusk blending into dawn. But, near London, it actually gets actively dark and it's pretty strange, to me.
Winters, however, feel neither darker nor brighter than I am used to, since I am used to spending most of the winter in artificial light anyway.
Unfortunately, I did not catch Waters of Mars yesterday, thinking I'd watch it a bit later on, on iPlayer, but it seems it'll only be on iPlayer comes Tuesday. Hrmph.
I wasn't very surprised by the fall of the Berlin Wall. But, then, I'd been at a maths conference in Dresden scant months before (late August to early September, IIRC) and it all looked inevitable to me, once the student demonstrations started.
Nuh-huh. Staying away from NaNoWriMo. There's enough external stuff happening that devoting all spare time for a month towards writing is NOT on the table.
Maybe next year, when I shall hopefully be embedded in a new country. Unless of course the next novel-sized chunk of words decide it wants to be written earlier (there is a VERY tentative beginning (the bastard off-spring of the first chunk of words), but I am waiting for a suitable plot to congeal).
I have only been in Edinburgh briefly (stepped of the airport bus, to jump on a train), but should probably try to visit it at least once in the near future.
When I see 031 as an area code, I think Gothen- rather than Edin-burgh.
inge @ #198:
I occasionally have to pause and stare at the words before I can tell what language I am reading in. At least once, it took me somewhere in the region of 60 pages before I realised I was reading Swedish, I thought I was reading English.
John Aspinall @ #139:
Four pieces can be done in two cuts, if the cuts are straight and you allow re-positioning and stacking the plywood between the cuts.
Lee @ #144:
Never felt invisible in a cookware store (male, ~6 foot tall), but I guess the fact that I like cooking and can argue for and against properties of various implements until my mouth falls off MAY have something to do with it.
Abi @ #180:
Bizarrely, I read faster in English (my 2nd language) than I do in Swedish (my 1st language). Might have something to do with (mostly) having read books in English for the last 20 years (Swedish is something I associate with electronic fora and newspapers). The flip side is that I can't always tell what language I am reading and that can be VERY confusing.
Abi @ 66:
I thought you bought them down at the JokeMart, in the Lawyer section, 100 for a dollar, only slightly used!
Erik Nelson @ #59:
Foreign manufacturers? Marin Bikes were started out of San Anselmo, in Marin County CA, so presumably fail the "foreign" thing from within the US.
Oh, just remembered another MOST scrumptious concoction (o far only spotted in one place, in Nyköping, in a smallish mostly-restaurant that does pizza on the side). The "plank steak" pizza.
Now, a "plank steak" is an odd creature to start with. Take a decent beef steak, place it on a thick cooking board (usually oak), pipe dense mashed potatoes around the edge. Place this in the oven and cook it until the steak is done as you prefer it. Then place a healthy dollop of Sauce Bearnaise in the sauce hole bored in one corner.
The "plank steak pizza" uses a pizza base (covered with tomato sauce and cheese) instead of the board, thin-cut steak strips instead of the steak, but still has the piped mash around the edge. It still has Sauce Bearnaise on it, but poured thinly all over instead of in a dedicated receptacle.
Since it has potatoes on it, it probably doesn't match the (seemingly strict) Dyer-Bennet pizza criteria, but as the potatoes are more there for garnish than anything else, I still consider it one.
Mark @ #49:
The "half-closed" is only folded up along the "edges" making sort-of a boat. That goes in the oven, with tomato and cheese, then comes out to be filled with freshly-cut doner meat, salad, onions and a hotter tomato sauce, then served on a plate. Most scrumptious it is, but I am (alas) in the wrong country for them, so I shall just have to suffer.
Hm, where I come from, a Calzone contains a pile of cheese, a pile of ham and a healthy gloip of (spiced) tomato sauce, followed by folding up and crimping the edge shut. Usually the crimp is done so it forms a decorative "comb" over the baked result, but sometimes it is folded right in half and the crimp is in the same plane as the bottom of the oven.
Sometimes served with sauce poured over it, sometimes not. Also comes in a plethora of variants (with or without meat sauce; half-baked, with kebab/gyros meat and salad...).
Meh, now I am craving a GOOD thin-crust Döner pizza.
Paula Liebermann @ #15:
From my (admittedly very far from perfect) understanding, one of the things that drive con-artists is the buzz they get from when they con a mark. I suspect more legit business practices don't give the same buzz opportunity and taht is a shame, because if that was the case, maybe we'd have fewer con-artists.
Abi @ #251:
On a day-to-day basis, I have no distinct preference for either boxers or briefs (I do want one or the other, though). However, for long-distance hiking I have found, the painful way, that boxers are vastly superior.
In amusing number-tricks, 129 is the seventh binary number that is both palondromic and has exactly two 1-bits. They're all on the form 2^n+1. Not really exciting, but it's cool nonetheless.
Hm, by chaing coloured stickers for letters, one should be able to make a smashing Rubric's Cube.
Terry @ #19:
The only way to avoid puns is to line your perimeter with punnets. That'll catch them, alright.
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