http://agouti.mobi You can call me agouti! Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:41:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The baby woke me up crying this morning.  I stumble out of bed.  Like a good Mommy, I go in, refuse to pick him up, rub his back, sing him a song.  When I leave, he starts to cry... I get back to my bed, fall in.  Then I realize it ... http://agouti.mobi/2010/08/27/babes-in-the-night/ Where have I been for the past nine months, you ask?  On Twitter. In fact, everybody is asking where I have been, including my husband, my boss, my mother.  The answer is the same for all of them: I've been staring at Twitter, watching the tweets fly.  I don't contribute much ... http://agouti.mobi/2009/09/28/needed-twitter-clients-for-my-mac/ Last night, Buena taught me how to rejuvenate old soba noodles! We were sitting around in the backyard, chatting, and considering whether to go our for dinner, when Buena said she had leftover soba noodles. Maybe we should have that? As it happens, I love soba, so I said ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/20/howto-rejuvenate-noodles/ I've been avoiding the subject of Tiger's amazing victory because I don't want to admit that he is superhuman and I am an ant. But I'm out sick today! So I guess it is time to admit that I am an ant, at least. Today, I feel like I'm ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/19/tigers-victory/ Man, oh man, that was fun to watch. See, sometimes you just get beat, and there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes you are outclassed, you don't belong on the court, because your team is comprised of washed-up fortysomethings, and there's nothing you can do about that either. ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/18/celtics-embarrass-the-lakers/ Let's just get it over with. I went to see the Earthquakes with my friend Buena, and they bombed. They just looked horrible, and Buena was pretty upset. Sooo...I guess I'll let her write about that and I'll cover David Beckham instead. First, I'm no soccer expert, but ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/17/galaxy-3-earthquakes-0/ Buena is home most of the day and I, as an academic, have a certain amount of flexibility during the day. I get the impression that Buena uses most of her flexibility to chat over the fence with my husband when he is around or with me when I ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/13/walked-down-to-ice-cream-with-buena-today/ You can probably figure out what you need to do on the laptop side by thinking about what we've done on the server side. We have the server checking for a signal (a new file deposited) by ftp and preparing to set up an ssh tunnel in response to ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/12/on-the-laptop-side/ Bet you thought I was a dipstick, didn't you? I know, I write like one. In truth, I swear, I'm not. I'm actually a scientist and a pretty smart cookie who knows a bit of programming. Today I'm going to tell you how to tunnel out from your ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/11/howto-tunnel-out-from-behind-a-firewall/ Phillip told me this joke this morning while we were lying in bed: A man calls the Animal Control in his town, because there is a crazed gorilla on his roof, and he can't figure out how to get it down safely. Soon, a van pulls up, and an old man ... http://agouti.mobi/2008/06/09/phillips-latest-joke/