Offbeat
Mozzi showed me the secret to an excellent made-from-scratch hearty red pasta sauce: tomato sauce (in the can) and half a bottle of red wine. Use that with the usual sauteed onions, garlic, mushrooms, and diced tomatoes and you’re in business.
I watched The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray on a friend’s 1080p 28’’ TV. Blu-Ray is for the real folks. They aren’t kidding. Truly spectacular.
Each of my two (large) energy classes in the civil & environmental engineering department is 50% made up of girls. My energy course in the electrical engineering department has 5% girls.
Finally got around to listening to the Fleet Foxes, and they are amazing. Got their album. Blue Ridge Mountains is absolutely worth listening to.
One of my roommate got a mini-fridge for more space. But not for drinks. Though it is convenient for that, no?
On the topic of drinks, Ed from the building across had his beer brewing gear out in the courtyard again. He’s making an oatmeal stout and a pale ale. Gonna call the pale ale “Barack & Tan”. One of his roommates plays the violin in the symphony (I hear the music wafting through the air at night).
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is speaking Friday on campus.
New favorite snack – chilled can of pineapple. Delicious right out of the can.
Jeffrey Heer, the guy who created the Prefuse and Flare data visualization toolkits, is actually an HCI professor at Stanford. He’s teaching a class in data viz.
Software pet peeve: F5 in PowerPoint. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen people try to hit the 2 pixel square button that is the ‘Start Slideshow’ button in the lower left corner of PowerPoint’s interface. Hit F5! Just hit F5! Or if you want to be even sexier, use a trick that Nader told me about: when you’re ready to present, rename your file with a .pps extension. When you double-click the file to open it, it’ll go directly into presentation mode!
A massive snowstorm tore through Chicago this past weekend. I made sure to send Sapana the Saturday forecast for Stanford:
Donny Said,
January 13, 2009 @ 7:02 am
excellent post Saket! I love the small tidbits. And I agree with the PPT 2-pixel icon annoyance. As they drag their mouse to the bottom left hand corner I feel time passes ever so slowly and agonizingly. Thanks for the .pps tip, can’t wait to wow everyone.