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Slamming dough
You know that cliche, heart-warming thought about home-made bakery being made with love? Well, for all you bakers out there, let’s get real: baking can be aggressive. I just now put some cranberry and sour cream scones in the oven, and had a funny moment of reflection. As I was preparing the dough, I was…
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MSU 4-H Children’s Garden
On Sunday morning, Lila, Eva and I visited the 4-H Children’s Garden at MSU. It was a beautiful day, and there were a few other small groups of people strolling around. In the back corner of the garden, obscured by the large tree in this photo, there is a play train. On the other side…
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Mourning and joy
At church this morning, Steve spoke about mourning and joy. He made a point about the word “mourning”—that it is easy to skim over verses that use it. In Matthew 5:4, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted,” the word “mourn” should be read more like devastatingly broken-hearted, as many of us…
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A degree, finally?
this weak I finishedd my Bachealor’s in English frum michigan state university!!!!!!!! (Ahem.) While I was a full-time student from 1994 to 1999, I did not complete my degree requirements at that time. I was offered a full-time job in the Web field in mid-1999, and I took it. Although I was close to finishing,…
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Ladies and gentlemen: introducing REGEXER.COM!
My friend Adam has been tapping at the keyboard and pacing again. This time, he’s working on a project called Regexer. For many programmers and Web developers, having to write up a regex (regular expression, a pattern matching utility found in many programming languages) involves having to dig out a book or look up a…
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Surge in UX jobs?
Is it just me, or is there a surge in job openings in the information architecture and Web usability fields? Over the last couple months, I’ve been contacted about or seen 8 or 9 job openings. Today, for instance, I received a message about a usability specialist position for a really well-known IT consulting firm.…
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Poetry voice, radio voice
I was a disc jockey, once upon a long time ago, at a radio station. During the training, my supervisor spoke about on-air voice and how to speak with a microphone. He pointed out that many people adopt a “radio voice”—you know, exaggerating the highs and lows, changing the rhythm of how you speak. Even…
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Revision: Using Javascript to add instructive text for input and textarea form fields
OUTDATED POST: HTML5’s placeholder attribute creates the behavior that this javascript did. Just use the placeholder attribute. This is a code update to a prior post. The Javascript I had posted earlier fell short in one important arena: when you submitted the form without entering your own text, the form would send in the instructive…
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Rieska recipe
Rieska recipe I got this recipe from my mother. Rieska is a type of Finnish bread we had occasionally when I was growing up. I just baked the bread shown in the photo. Ingredients 3 cup white flour 1/2 cup maltex or oatmeal 1/8 cup sugar 2tsp baking soda 1 3/4 cup buttermilk (maybe little…
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Omelette!
Well, not the most attractive omelette I’ve done, but the camera was nearby. 2 eggs beaten with a little heavy whipping cream (maybe 1 or 2 teaspoons…I just poured some in) green pepper mushrooms green onion 3 thin slices of roma tomato monterey jack cheese medium cheddar cheese salt, pepper, basil