It’s convenient to keep a plate or two of chocolate in the freezer. Then when making chocolate cake, I can just take it out, place it on a suitable surface such as a cutting board, and pound the unopened packet with a hammer, mallet, sledgehammer, blunt end of an axe, or other convenient kitchen utensil. Mind you, this works best with chocolate wrapped in fairly strong plastic. Paper wrapping tends to tear much more. When pounded such, the cold chocolate will break into small bits, suitable for spreading on top of cake or mixing into batter. Room-tempered chocolate won’t break as easily, being more plastic and less brittle. It’ll tend to deform and melt more. It’s also convenient to keep chocolate in the fridge or cupboard, in case you fancy a chocolate.
Monthly Archive for October, 2005
LaTeX is full of wonderful features, many of them slightly hackish to make us feel 1337. But some minor issues are rather annoying. My favourite peeve: Fonts. Installing a font in LaTeX is too painful. I avoid the issue. What about familiar TrueType? Or easily available and frequently high quality OpenType fonts? No, no. Not in teTeX. Too… easy. Too… modern. So I use whatever is available. Which one’d think was perfectly fine, since UiO has many wonderful text fonts available in its LaTeX. But, alas, not many math fonts. I’d prefer to do my M.Sc thesis in Concorde or Garamond, but there are simply no math fonts available to go with them. The Euler font is a no-go. It’s too different from any sane text font. It’ll make separate math environments warm and cuddly to behold, and inline math constructs ugly ugly. So I’m stuck with Palatino and Math Pazo, which are at least free and don’t print as badly on a standard printer as do the Computer Modern fonts. (I could have used Lucida Bright fonts, if I liked them.)
Viss dette fysikkfjaset ikkje blir noko stas kan eg kanskje slå meg inn på kjønnsforskning i staden? Denne artikkelen har nemleg slikt eit fint utsagn:
Genusvetenskap och andra könspolitiska ämnen erbjuder en genväg för personer som saknar meriter för att klara sig i den konkurrens som gäller i universitetsvärlden i övrigt.
I dag hatar eg datamaskinar. Dei som har lyst til å vita kvifor kan prøva å få convert(1) til å konvertera ei EPS-fil til høgoppløyst PNG.
