Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Category: Short Reads

Updates that are comfortably bite-sized.

  • Type Frustrations Revisited

    It seems that one of the only solid solutions for ensuring that the Google Fonts display properly is, much to my friends‘ delight, to “get a Mac.” Will Moyer has one of the only viable fixes, a 0.0000000001-degree rotation that fixes the issue in Webkit browsers like Chrome. For Firefox, we have to wait for…

  • Type Frustrations

    I would really like to be able to use the Google Fonts API on my website, but so far I haven’t seen very good results with how their fonts are rendered on Windows. I’ve been searching off and on for why this happens and have determined that at least on my system, the problem lies…

  • New Haircut

    I have been trying out a fauxhawk for the past couple of months. This time, I got it cut shorter on the sides so the look is a bit more stark. Standing it up like this takes a good bit of effort though, so I’m unlikely to do it too often.

  • Winter Weekend Beach Adventure

    Winter Weekend Beach Adventure

    A bunch of us went to the beach this weekend, because we live in SoCal and we can. Great times with some good company! Of course, Rachel was one of the few who went all the way into the water—child’s play for  a girl who goes swimming in the ocean during Maryland’s winter. It took those of…

  • How to Mess Up “Unsubscribe”

    Here’s what I got when I tried to unsubscribe from Baltimore County Public Library’s email newsletter. The password, of course, is not the one associated with my library account, so if I want to unsubscribe, I’ll have to first request a password. This is how email gets filtered directly to trash.

  • Necro-Boot

    I have been trying to figure out why this new video card isn’t working with Zoe, so I necromanced Tess to serve as a test system. It’s fun pressing the power button by shorting contacts with a screwdriver.

  • Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

  • Highlights from Exploring LA

    All of the times I’ve been to LA in the past, I’ve left the airport for somewhere else and hardly looked back. Since we moved here we’ve been meaning to go over there and explore a bit, but it took Kyle coming to visit us from Maryland to make that happen. We managed to hit a lot…