I hate low flow washers!
It is past midnight. I'm waiting for some clothes to dry so I can finish packing up for the CUE conference in Palm Springs. Our "low flow" washer just leaked water for the first time. It is a rather new washer, but it sucks! The next time you are in the market for a washer, absolutely do not purchase a washer that saves water. You'll end up with dirty clothes every time you do a large dark load. The person we bought our house from left this washer behind, which, by the way, is a pretty new washer. Despite that, because it leaked water tonight, I think that gives us a good reason to spend the money to replace it with a regular washer.
I'm such a computer nerd
I finally decided to create a computerized packing list for every time I travel. The list contains not only clothes to pack, but lots of other things as well, such as "turn off the heat", "take out the trash", etc. I ended up using PHP (a programming language) and I categorized my lists (clothes, electronics, toiletries, etc). Each list was stored in an array. I then wrote a function that took the contents of the array and printed the items in a nice column in a table. So now, whenever I need to travel, I'll just visit my web page, print out the list, and check things off as I pack.
I wrote a Javascript calculator
Today (actually Mar 7), I also wrote a Javascript calculator that I sometimes display when students do worksheets on MathScore.com. I don't display the calculator for basic arithmetic, but for topics like "restaurant bills", "sales commission", "batting averages", and "mean, median, and mode", I now display the calculator. The calculator is very simplistic. You just type in a phrase like 12*13 and it spits out the answer. The neat thing about it is that it also takes more complex phrases like (12+98+2)/3. I didn't have to do anything fancy to make this happen. I just call the Javascript eval() function to get the answer.
The CUE Conference
The CUE (Computer Using Educators) Conference is a major educational conference in California. Last year, I was a first time exhibitor. It will be interesting to see how some people react when they recognize my booth this year. I'll be exhibiting this upcoming Thursday - Saturday. I hope it goes well!
It is past midnight. I'm waiting for some clothes to dry so I can finish packing up for the CUE conference in Palm Springs. Our "low flow" washer just leaked water for the first time. It is a rather new washer, but it sucks! The next time you are in the market for a washer, absolutely do not purchase a washer that saves water. You'll end up with dirty clothes every time you do a large dark load. The person we bought our house from left this washer behind, which, by the way, is a pretty new washer. Despite that, because it leaked water tonight, I think that gives us a good reason to spend the money to replace it with a regular washer.
I'm such a computer nerd
I finally decided to create a computerized packing list for every time I travel. The list contains not only clothes to pack, but lots of other things as well, such as "turn off the heat", "take out the trash", etc. I ended up using PHP (a programming language) and I categorized my lists (clothes, electronics, toiletries, etc). Each list was stored in an array. I then wrote a function that took the contents of the array and printed the items in a nice column in a table. So now, whenever I need to travel, I'll just visit my web page, print out the list, and check things off as I pack.
I wrote a Javascript calculator
Today (actually Mar 7), I also wrote a Javascript calculator that I sometimes display when students do worksheets on MathScore.com. I don't display the calculator for basic arithmetic, but for topics like "restaurant bills", "sales commission", "batting averages", and "mean, median, and mode", I now display the calculator. The calculator is very simplistic. You just type in a phrase like 12*13 and it spits out the answer. The neat thing about it is that it also takes more complex phrases like (12+98+2)/3. I didn't have to do anything fancy to make this happen. I just call the Javascript eval() function to get the answer.
The CUE Conference
The CUE (Computer Using Educators) Conference is a major educational conference in California. Last year, I was a first time exhibitor. It will be interesting to see how some people react when they recognize my booth this year. I'll be exhibiting this upcoming Thursday - Saturday. I hope it goes well!
posted by Steven | 12:35 AM
3 Comments:
good to see ur blog ... I don't have one yet ... I don't plan to do one iether ... because I know I will have no time to write stuff on there ... I guess busy ppl like us really need those travel list ... otherwise we'll forget something while we are on the road ... which is not good =D Keep up the good work!!
Laughing at your washer dilemma. Funny you mentioned though as we are also in the market for a more efficient one and will certainly heed your advice.
There's lots of washers out there to covet! Let us know what you end up going with. How much water were you talking about?!
Glad to see you joined the blog community and are already finding such "blogworthy" topics!
To your future posts!
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