Author Archives: matt

This coming month’s looking like it’s going to be pretty full. Here’s why: I’m moving both house and office in the next little while. I’m getting keys to both spaces tomorrow; I figure I’ll be spending much of the weekend … Continue reading →

I’m beginning to think that airlines don’t really do the whole travel-rewards thing. Oh, they’ll say they do, but when it comes down to it… So the two airlines with which I have accumulated miles1 both have two tiers of … Continue reading →

The sign of a great bibliography: I’m currently referencing two papers with the titles “Generalised domination and independence in graphs” and “Generalized independence and domination in graphs”. These two papers seem to share a starting point and a couple of … Continue reading →

Tip o’ the cap to clvrmnky for directing me to Cork’d: an online communal wine journal, complete with tagging and friends lists (“drinking buddies”). Anyone who’s interested in discussing such things, my UID’s “mattinthehat”; go sign up & let us … Continue reading →

What’s the reciprocal relationship to “friend of the family”? It seems that I’m officially a friend of the extended ecogrrl-decogrrl family, and it sort of bothers me that I don’t have an easy expression for this. “Family of friends” doesn’t … Continue reading →

I’ve recently gotten my hands on a couple of research papers that answer a couple of outstanding questions in one of my own projects. They answer them so well, in fact, that I’m not sure how much there is to … Continue reading →

When driving at night while using your high beams, please be aware that they might blind other people on the road, and lead to their subsequent death. This should particularly be kept in mind on undivided highways. On a related … Continue reading →

Wow. There’s just so many cool places to go on the internet. I wish I had some place where I could share with the world some of the neat stuff I read there. Oh, wait. Of course, I don’t have … Continue reading →

Finally fixing up a few things around the blog here, in preparation to actually opening up other sections of the website which have been Under Development for, like, ever. As such, anyone who’s got one of my posts permalinked (for … Continue reading →

So I’d had a steak defrosting in my fridge for a couple of days, and it wanted eating, and I thought it would be nice to prepare a marinade for it of some sort. Most of my experiments in marinades … Continue reading →