Summary: If you’re using GD to generate 2 image sizes from an original, first generate the larger resized image, then generate the smaller size based on the resized image (not the original) to save a tiny bit of execution time. I’m working on a webcam project where I need to pull in a large webcam [...]
Ingredients: beef short ribs, onion, carrot, celery, red wine, rub spices, salt. Short ribs are great grilled, but they’ve got some connective tissue that really wants to be braised. So, why not do both? First, your ribs should be big and chunky. If you’ve got thin-sliced ribs you should probably just grill them. Start by [...]
I got to go to Nashville for the first time a couple of weeks ago for a friend’s wedding. What a cool place! It combines the crusty industrial feel of Pittsburgh with the artistic party-town feel of New Orleans. Like Pittsburgh, it’s wrapped around a river, the Cumberland. While waiting for Mandi to get a [...]
To help keep track of my photos, I like to rename them so their filenames are based on the date and time they were taken. I’ve used a couple of different scripts to do this, settling on a single-line bash script that runs exiftool. This works really well, but sometimes the extensions on my photos [...]
We had the second annual crawfish party at our friend Aliza’s house earlier this month, once again stuffing ourselves with crawfish late into the night. This year we somehow managed to save a few crawfish to shell the next day for a tasty frittata. Just like last year, I put together the boil spices based [...]
