Month: September 2009
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Vim regex-fu for LaTeX
When writing a beamer presentation with LaTeX, I organize my presentation into sections and subsections. Frequently, the title of the first frame (slide) in a subsection has the same name as the subsection. Let’s say I start off with the following structure: \section[corpora]{Accessing text corpora} \subsection[gutenberg]{The Gutenberg Corpus} \subsection[chat]{The web and chat Corpus} \subsection[brown]{The Brown…
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Energy usage myth
Recently I heard some sort of public service announcement about energy usage. I don’t recall where I heard it, but I was struck by one part of it. Two kids were talking about energy usage, and one mentioned that your cell phone charger still draws power, even if your cell phone is not plugged in.…
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Black bean quesadillas
Black bean quesadilla with pico de gallo Black bean quesadillas with pico de gallo Last week we had lots of fresh tomatoes, so Clare told me I should make pico de gallo, and some mexican food. We make burritos fairly frequently, so I thought it would be fun to make something slightly different. We happened…