1. Good Drinks: Alcohol-Free Recipes for When You’re Not Drinking for Whatever Reason by Julia Bainbridge. This 167 page recipe book was a gift from my mom after a stray remark about trying out non-alcohol mixed drinks. After a brief exploration of cocktails in the summer of 2020 and dismay over the amount of work […]
New parents quickly learn that “eat, play, sleep” is the broad structure that should guide a newborn’s days. I have already discussed eating and sleeping, which are two sides of the same coin, because playing with a baby is not really possible in the first eight-ish weeks. Not only are babies that young hardly interactive, […]
We have used two trash cans for diapers, the Playtex Diaper Genie Complete and the Ubbi Steel Diaper Pail. The former was chosen by my in-laws for when we stayed with them for three weeks after the baby’s birth, and the latter is what we chose for our home based on Wirecutter’s recommendation. Overall, they […]
We have used varying amounts of formula almost since our baby was born. Since my wife is in charge of breastfeeding, I have taken responsibility for formula feeding, and since I have lots of opinions, I have decided to write product reviews. Here, I compare two manual methods, one bottle at a time and the […]
If you have had to use a breast pump, you have also had to clean its parts. If you cleaned the parts, you probably did so after each pumping session, which is what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and many evidence-based websites recommend. Cleaning requires, at a minimum, rinsing with soap and water, though […]
As any new parent knows, you are supposed to feed your newborn 8-12 times per day, which is every 2-3 hours. As any newborn parent will tell you, especially one whose baby takes 30-60 minutes per feeding, such frequency is all encompassing, leaving slivers of time for adult eating and hygiene, much less anything higher […]
TL;DR: If you’re here for the apa7.cls file, go to https://github.com/ZacharyST/apa7.cls. For a recently accepted article, I was asked to use the apa7 (American Psychological Association 7th edition) document class for my Latex document. The request seemed easy because the file was already using the apa6 class. Of course this is Latex, so instead of […]
This writing distresses because Lepore is a very strong writer. I can therefore only conclude this book is a mixture of a rushed job and very poor editing, once the author and editor realized it should not have been a book. 2. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. […]
I did not start writing this post until April because of Covid. Covid means much less being outside, so many fewer opportunities to see people. Mei Lin. We finally were able to order the Szechuan fried chicken from Daybird, Mei Lin’s casual new place. This is the Mei Lin of Top Chef who then opened […]
I recently had to learn gsutil, a Python package used to interact with Google Cloud Platform. Overall, I guess it was easy enough to learn, though there was one pain point. When I was in the GCP bucket containing the directories I wanted to download, I tried to download the directories directly using the graphical […]
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