Jim Willis

Gail Collins column via Kent

The King Arthur flour Co.’s pancake recipe. Every weekend for the past few months I’ve tried a different recipe for pancakes. As far as white all-purpose flour pancakes go, this is the best I’ve found. I added an additional ¼ milk and a bit more sugar.

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The “Before” clean up picture, originally uploaded by sjwillis.

So I’m hoping that by posting this picture of the disgrace that I call a desk I’ll somehow muster the will to clean my office. Though “clean” is hardly the right word here since I haven’t really even unpacked yet since moving in. Note the…

• Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? – New York Times
  On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC.
  (tags: funny politics)

On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC.

At least one of the Carriage Hill Grommet Crew has risen above the tide of pabulum and received some recognition for something besides Excellence in Slacking. Robbie Carissimo’s design work has been showing up in the UK’s Digital Arts magazine. Nice job, grommet.

What a difference a font can make! I futzed around with Coda from Panic yesterday for a while on a project. It was enjoyable to use but I kept finding that I would return to TextMate to do anything heavy with my code. I realized after bouncing back and forth between them that what I really liked about Coda was the default font. It was smaller than what I was using on TextMate but still really, really readable. I little bit of poking around and I found that Coda ships with its own…