It is a tradition to have a dinner, perhaps a feast, for Easter. It is probably pretty common, at least, in North America to have turkey, though I feel ham may be moreso.

But how common is it to portion leftover meat evenly and weigh each on a scale. That is what we did yesterday.

We each got two containers containing about 280 grams of turkey.

Had Easter dinner at the house 24 Mar 2008

I was talking with Hiro and Dave this afternoon and Hiro brought up the topic of online voting.

I mentioned what I had read on Ping’s blog about his dissertation called “Building Reliable Voting Machine Software” and the “huge wild cheer” that it got at his convocation.

He also commented earlier on the California Secretary of State’s decision on the use of electronic voting machines for this year’s elections.

But on this topic of Ping and his dissertation. I like best the post about tracking his work and sleep time. He wrote a program with which he logged time he was working on his dissertation and time he slept and then graphed the data (How long does it take to write a dissertation).

I like the idea of tracking your sleep, work or other things can really help you sleep, work, or other more or better. It’s like biofeedback where see real-time measurements of physiological events you normally consider unconscious can help you to consciously influence them.

Doug posted a photo of him and a tower in Pisa, Italy, the leaning one. And . . . he is posing to appear as though he is supporting or pushing it up.

He recognizes how cliche this is in his comment:

When you’re in Pisa, there’s a whole row of people standing there with their arms up and someone crouched beside them saying “move your hands a little to the left, no, the other left”.

What I wonder is why don’t people at least also get a photo of themselves pushing the tower down.

In our house we have a huge stack of pizza boxes and it wasn’t until Lisa P. came over and said, “Hey, the leaning tower of pizza,” had anyone said such what really should be an obvious name.

An frozen waterfall spewing out of the corner of an apartment building on Duke Street. It is like a huge icicle.

I guess icemelt from the roof came and overflowed the drain pipe beginning as an icicle but continuing to flow and freeze until it grew into the huge ice tumor you can see in these photos.

I don’t think it will really be spring until this has melted.