http://uwmike.com Hacker, Engineer, Dancer, Gentleman Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://uwmike.com/articles/2010/02/23/apple-pie/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2010/02/23/apple-pie/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:49:09 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/?p=618 ]]> http://uwmike.com/articles/2010/02/23/apple-pie/feed/ 3 http://uwmike.com/articles/2009/01/05/dancing-feet/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2009/01/05/dancing-feet/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:11:11 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/?p=502 http://uwmike.com/articles/2009/01/05/dancing-feet/feed/ 3 http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/10/13/the-piemaker/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/10/13/the-piemaker/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:42:53 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/?p=454 The [recipes I followed for both filling and crust](http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/pumpkinpie.php) are easy to read and pretty straightforward. I still ran into a few gotchas, though; I'll be noting those as I can. Read the whole article here.]]> http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/10/13/the-piemaker/feed/ 5 http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/07/08/in-three/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/07/08/in-three/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:57:25 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/?p=423 http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/07/08/in-three/feed/ 5 http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/04/03/swing-geeks/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/04/03/swing-geeks/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:58:43 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/?p=391 http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/04/03/swing-geeks/feed/ 6 http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/07/08/open-social-network/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/07/08/open-social-network/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:15:34 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/07/08/open-social-network/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/07/08/open-social-network/feed/ 6 http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/04/13/wp-meetup/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/04/13/wp-meetup/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:45:29 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/04/13/wp-meetup/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/04/13/wp-meetup/feed/ 1 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/12/04/exam-food/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/12/04/exam-food/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:01:59 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/12/04/exam-food/ It is officially exam time. Can you tell?]]> http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/12/04/exam-food/feed/ 1 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/11/10/buttermilk-bread/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/11/10/buttermilk-bread/#comments Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:40:33 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/11/10/buttermilk-bread/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/11/10/buttermilk-bread/feed/ 11 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:57:54 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/ When I changed my banner image for the fall, it was more an act of defiance than as some sort of genuine reflection of the reality outside. We've now had several dustings of snow, and there was the small issue of my bicycle brakes being encased in ice, fused to the wheel. Anyhow, I ran into [Matthias Wandel](http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/) at [Swing Club](http://swing.uwaterloo.ca/) this afternoon---he's a UW grad, and has a number of really neat project writeups on his site. It was just funny that I was half-heartedly studying some circuits in the studio, and when I asked him about an [op-amp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier) question, his response was more about what a useless circuit it was, than what exactly the filter behaviour would be. In other news, I seem to be getting the hang of [Tango](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Tango) a bit more. It's a far simpler dance than [Lindy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Hop), and certainly less flexible, but fun enough in its high-heeled, strutting sort of way. Like any of the more intimate dances, it's more about the subtle communication between partners than big showy spins and tricks.]]> http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/feed/ 2