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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 2:22 pm |
odd request
Do you want to volunteer at the NE Woodcarver annual show on Oct 17 & 18? My friend Karen was planning to do it, but found out she can't make it, so she is looking for a substitute. Pizza and minimal compensation provided. So if for any reason you have always been curious to see the inner workings behind the scenes at the NE Woodcarvers, let me know. | | Friday, September 25th, 2009 | | 11:19 am |
fake plants wanted
If anyone in the Boston area has an excess of fake plants or fake flowers, I would be willing to take them off your hands. | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 3:13 pm |
short programmer consulting job - graphing
My brother's company wants a small programming task accomplished, and I'm wondering if any of you would be interested and able to do it quickly. The general idea is to make some kind of script/program that can take as input a set of X,Y data, and output a series of jpgs/pictures. The series of pictures would all have the X,Y graph of the data set, plus each graph would have a single X point and Y point highlighted. The highlighting would be in the form of drawing a straight line to the X and Y axis from the data point of interest. It should be easy to change the input data set and generate a new series of pictures. Ideally, it should be possible for the user to also control things about the graph, like the font of the axis label, the color of the lines, whether they are dotted or solid lines). Also, even if you are not interested in doing this task, if you have suggestions for how someone should do this kind of thing, please let me know. Thanks. | | Friday, October 31st, 2008 | | 2:02 pm |
Need biologist(s) for hire
I need to find someone who is available ASAP to do an AP Biology related task, ideally to be completed during November. Any suggestions or pointers for how to locate such a person would be very much appreciated. The task would be to look at a specific subsection (44 pages) of an AP Biology textbook and then go through a bunch of old AP exams or prep tests to cull out questions which pertain to the specific subsection. We would like to identify 50 AP Exam appropriate questions, and up to 50 easier questions (maybe review questions or back of the book questions) where what you need to know is covered in these 44 pages. I believe this would take someone who is a real biology teacher 40 hours or less of work. I imagine that someone who was an out of practice biologist might take longer, since they would have to review the subject matter. We would be willing to pay $2000. The work could be split among more than one person, if we can't find anyone who can do the whole thing in November. The work can be done at home. (Basically, I have already sent mail to a ton of high schools, and am getting applications from AP Chemistry and AP Physics teachers, but so far no AP Biology teachers.) | | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | | 10:08 am |
old Mac files
A friend of mine has some old Mac computers and hard drives that he wants to recover some files off of. I believe most of the files are in Write-Now, an old word processing program. The computers are from the early 90's and have SCSI connectors (not Firewire or USB). He is not sure whether the computers still work, as they have not been booted up for years. He would be happy to pay someone to help him out with this. The files are of personal significance (stories/plays/poems written by his late wife). If anyone has suggestions or pointers for this sort of thing, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. | | Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | | 10:32 am |
strange phone issue
One of my coworkers just tried calling me twice on my cell phone and got a "the phone number you have called is not in service" message. I tried calling from my office phone, and it worked fine. I know the coworker has the right number, because he's called me on my cell before, and because I checked the number in his phone after the first time. He has an iPhone and I'm using Sprint. Any ideas for why this is happening? | | Friday, February 8th, 2008 | | 12:59 pm |
NWN thwartage
I am using a custom hak pak with item portraits that override some standard NWN game assets (like iit_torch_019.tga). I can see the item picture in the appearance tab of the toolset when I edit an item. When I play the game, the item shows up as a white rectangle in my inventory. When E. plays the game, she sees the item portrait. We have the same module file and the same set of haks installed. Any clues? | | Friday, February 1st, 2008 | | 5:41 pm |
Arby's
Just saying, do you know that there is no Arby's within a 45 minute drive of Boston? Whereas there are at least 3 Dunkin Donuts within easy walking distance of me right now? | | Friday, January 4th, 2008 | | 3:44 pm |
more python problems
I have an email application that generates a big file of all the emails ever received by each person. I am using python's email.Parser module to read the big file and process each message later for logging purposes. All emails generated via the web email application are multi-part, and when I parse the big file, it turns the first email into a multipart Message, with the content in the Payload of one of the parts, and then shoves all the rest of the file into the Epilogue. This is just fine, because I can deal with the first Message and then parse the Epilogue to get the next Message, etc. However, system emails (like bounce messages or auto responses) are not multi-part. When the Parser runs into a non multi-part message, it puts the entire rest of the file (that is, the content of this email plus the headers and contents of all subsequent emails) into the Payload. This ruins my ability to separate the emails. Anyone have suggestions? Is there another better module to use or a better way to turn the big file into separate messages? Should I just be examining all payloads to try and recognize the inclusion of headers, indicating that separation has failed, and then divide the Payload up into separate messages myself? | | Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | | 2:26 pm |
Arlington plows bike path
I heard it's some kind of experiment for this year. Anyhow, the bike path is plowed up to just past Trader Joe's in Arlington. | | Sunday, December 16th, 2007 | | 4:55 pm |
making audio CD - need help
I have a bunch of .wav files (32kHz, 16bit, mono). I would like to make a CD where you can put it into a CD player, press play, and hear all the files in a certain order. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dcltdw and I have tried doing this with iTunes but that seems to produce CDs that I can neither play in a CD player nor read on my computer. Clearly, this is a solved problem, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any suggestions? | | Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | | 4:24 pm |
cover art
Do any of you have enough graphics manipulating foo and like me enough to assist with cover art for this year's novel? What I really want is a picture of a hot dog in a bun, except the hot dog part is replaced by an Easter Island head (tinted red). | | Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 | | 5:19 pm |
grocery store strange
In case you missed it, they now sell packages of prune snack packs (3 per pack) and also packages of individually wrapped prunes. It's like those people who used to give out little boxes of raisins instead of Halloween candy wanted an option that might appeal even less to kids. | | Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | | 3:21 pm |
modern art
If you haven't been out to the DeCordova recently, you might want to go see the model trains and random art display. But, the display not to be missed is the Samantha Fields piece that is an entire wall covered in aluminum siding and giant embroidery, with bits of afghan peeping out. It's a wild and appealing mish-mash of indoors/outdoors public/private. At the MFA, there is an exhibit called Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis. This exhibit is full of big strange art of the type that you sometimes see at seaside resort galleries and think "who buys this stuff." Also, there is a display of Islamic illuminations with intricate, gold-leafed and calligraphed pages. Wednesday nights are free admission! | | Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 | | 8:19 am |
obtain strange items
I would like to obtain a bunch of used bridal aisle runners (those rolls of white pseudo-fabric that people sometimes use in weddings). Or rather, I don't care if they are new or used, but free or cheap would be great, and I assume used might be more likely to be free or cheap. Any suggestions? | | Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 | | 11:02 am |
python flailing
I've just been failing on this all morning. Any tips for converting a string like this: Aug 06, 2007 01:55:15:089 PM into a Python datetime? Ideally, in a way that works on both Windows and Linux. (I do not think that datetime.strp works on Windows?) | | Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 | | 8:18 am |
local library ramblings
I've been meaning to visit some of the other local public libraries around here. Yesterday, dcltdw and I went to the Belmont and Lexington (main) libraries. Lexington's is amazingly spacious, with lots of comfy chairs scattered around. It's right on Mass Ave near the bike path at Lexington Center. Belmont's is on Concord Ave near where I work. An interesting building, but a little crowded. I hear they are in the process of renovating, but I don't know how far off that will be. (For anyone who remembers him from SPUR, I think they're using Stew Roberts as their architect!) Compared to Arlington (main), I think that Belmont and Lexington may both have slightly more in the new books area. All these are wildly more book-ful than the Davis Square branch or Coolidge Corner, but I guess that's the thing about branch libraries. I'm personally not crazy about the actual main Boston Public, especially now that every other nearby city except Boston is on the Minuteman network with interlibrary book delivery. Although BPL has the rather nifty Ask-A-Librarian online feature. Somerville (main) always seems kind of grim and not the kind of place you want to loaf around in, even though they (at least used to) have a rabbit in the children's room. Anyhow, if you're local and you haven't been to Lexington main, it's worth a stop sometime. They don't love you for doing so, but you're allowed to return books from one library to another one, so it's not too inconvenient. | | Friday, July 13th, 2007 | | 3:59 pm |
squirrels vs hordes (more boring than it sounds)
Do any of you have experience using, administering, or modifying web-email? Particularly the open-source SquirrelMail or Horde Mail varieties? Need to decide which one to integrate into our game interface, and would be curious to chat with anyone who has first hand experience. | | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | | 9:24 am |
Intimidated by vegetation
Yesterday, I cut the grass in our backyard. Some of the grass had reached shoulder height. Good thing the neighbors are tolerant. The raspberry bushes are officially out of control...maybe next year I should do some pruning and moving around to create a small labyrinth. | | Friday, June 8th, 2007 | | 2:29 pm |
Have a colorful day
I called the Crayola product support hotline today because I was disappointed in the performance of the pink marker in a brand-new set. The service person was extremely sympathetic. There was a slightly surreal part where she was trying to figure out exactly which color marker I was talking about, but since unlike crayons, these markers are not labelled with color names, I had to resort to vague descriptions. "The light pink one, not the very lightest pink, but the next lightest one." She is going to make a note that Staples may need to not keep items in their stores for too long prior to selling them and send me a coupon. They tell you to "have a colorful day" at the end! (Which entertained me, because the last tech support hotline I called was for the New Age meditation computer game, and they say "have a good journey.") I wonder what sort of training you need to be tech support for Crayola? From their phone menu, it would appear that questions about removing stains is the top concern, followed by questions about toxicity. |
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