Articles in Personal Miscellany
Personal rants, musings and everyday miscellanea.
The Dollhouse
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
This may not be a popular opinion. There is actually a lot of hate directed at this show from some quarters, and a lot of it is coming specifically from Joss Whedon fans. The core complaint, besides the segment who feel that Eliza Dushku's acting abilities aren't up for the job, seems to be that Dollhouse is not like Joss Whedon's previous work.
Religion and Type: An MBTI Perspective
Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
This article is the first in a series of articles that I originally posted to various mailing lists which at one time or another made it up on to my original web page. This one was posted to the Yahoo Groups INFJ list some time in 2004 and is about the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator and its (putative) application to religion 
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French Class
Posted on March 18th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Since January, I have been taking French classes (Intermediare 1) conversational French given by the Collège Acadie Î.-P.-É., a new, small degree-granting institution created to provide post-secondary education on PEI to Prince Edward Island's francophone community. I've been taking this because I want to understand people better when we go to visit Mathieu's family, and so that I can understand French-language television better.
How to Grow Thai Hot Chilis
Posted on March 8th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
In the spring of 2008, I bought a little package of Thai hot chili peppers at Sobey's. These were ripe, red peppers. Thai hot chilis are very small peppers, maybe an inch long max. Just for fun, I cut one open and planted the seeds. They grew, and I got quite a lot of chilis back. By request, here's what to do if you want to grow your own:
Transition to Ubuntu on the new laptop
Posted on March 1st, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
I decided to bite the bullet and install Ubuntu (the latest version, 8.10, Intrepid Ibex) on the laptop and figure out the wireless after. I briefly thought about setting up a dual boot (Vista can resize its own partition and give you space to install Ubuntu), until I saw exactly how much space minimum Vista needed - well over 40 gigs! I only have a 160 gig HD and I'm just not willing to give up such a big chunk of my HD.
New Laptop!
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
I just got a new laptop. It's a fairly cheap model... a HP G50 with AMD Athlon Dual Core QL62 2GHz processor, 3G RAM and a 160 G HD. It's really nice, although I still have two weeks to return it and I might do so. Partly it's the expense, and partly it's because I'm not sure how compatible Ubuntu will be with this system.
My very first blog post!
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Here it is, my very first blog post in my new web site!