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by jswanson 15y ago
If you still want to give it a shot, it's great in soups. An easy Chicken Quinoa soup with carrots and celery, and a healthy dose of lime and pepper, is healthy, flavorful and fairly easy to make.
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by jswanson 15y ago
I easily top that, living in central Tokyo. This is including eating out for lunch on weekdays though, which costs at least 10 dollars a day. Fruit and vegetables are more expensive. A decent apple will cost about 1.50 each. 1 metric litre
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by jswanson 15y ago
There are a few different types of employees in Japan. Most people want a '正社員', (Seishain) or full company employee position. Seishain's are notoriously difficult and expensive to fire, even if they are in no way productive. To get around
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by jswanson 15y ago
This is essentially taking energy from the sun by: - growing a plant in a pool of water - harvesting the plant, treating it with solvents, then extracting the fuel in a crude format - refining the oil Although solar technologies are stil
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by jswanson 15y ago
The Japanese announcement is full of apology: "2011年4月21日よりPlayStation®NetworkおよびQriocity™の障害が継続しており、お客様および関係各位に多大なるご迷惑をおかけしておりますことを深くお詫び申しあげます。" Which is a polite and flowery way of apologizing for the ongoing interruption of service. htt
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by jswanson 15y ago
Just to be clear, I'm actually annoyed when something pops up telling me i've won a trophy for doing something that just seems to be a part of the game. However, they've grown rampant, and it seems like any modern games support them. They
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by jswanson 15y ago
I found out that the 'Bernoulli Effect' explanation was pretty much wrong through this TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_drori_on_what_we... Was completely blown away, and angry at my education. And at myself for belie
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by jswanson 15y ago
If you have the chops, you probably should. I'm pretty sure that until recently they had a position listed for a data analyst type.
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by jswanson 15y ago
I think you have a remarkably bad TV.
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by jswanson 16y ago
NASA has a lot of really good pictures up on their site actually. Here's a front on shot of Discovery. It has some people in it, which are great for scale: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/imageviewer.cfm?mediaid=510...
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by jswanson 16y ago
I bought the soundtrack, and enjoy it. Many tracks are prefect for working to, if you like listening to backgroundy type music while coding or whatever.
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by jswanson 16y ago
Sounds like it could make an interesting blog post.
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by jswanson 16y ago
Used 'elflord' for the longest time, but have lately switched to Koehler. Screenshot with semi-transparent background: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3ORpqSeM1kvLV0lceHpOjw...
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by jswanson 16y ago
I found the color scheme easy to read. Using a Dell monitor attached to a mac via DVI though, and calibrated to the best of my ability using the OSX calibration tool.
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by jswanson 16y ago
Indeed. Also imagine what could have come out of this by now had it gone online in the mid 90's. They haven't even gotten the LHC up to full speed yet, but it's already yielding interesting results.
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by jswanson 16y ago
Have you tried gtalk on Chrome? Seems to work everywhere that has an OS Recognized camera and mic. I've talked with people on linux, and windows, from my OS 10.6 machine.
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by jswanson 16y ago
That's great for SA's who are working in the racks. Not so great for SA's that are administering the boxes remotely, devs trying to figure out what machine they are on, or teams trying to troubleshoot an issue. If a box is no longer a db ma