I have been baking bread for over 6 years now. I started in 2001, my last semester at Grinnell College, with the hopes of producing some bread like I fell in love with in Germany. I started off with fairly simple recipes from a Fleischmann’s baking book my mom gave me. That book got me going pretty well. There were some very obvious failures, but I enjoyed the pursuit, and usually, the results. In 2003, I started experimenting with sourdough […] (Read more)

Yesterday I gave a talk in the Linguistics department colloquium series. I like to cover all my bases, so I had a handout and a slide presentation, which were both made from the same LaTeX code. In an earlier post, I briefly discussed using the prosper package for LaTeX to make presentations. A few months ago, I discovered the powerdot package, which is kind of the niece of prosper (cousin of ha-prosper). The syntax and framework is very similar to […] (Read more)

As I write this I am enjoying some extremely tasty leftover soup that Clare made last Sunday. It kind of has everything in it, but I think that the swiss chard and the spelt are the most distinctive parts. She had bought some swiss chard at Trader Joe’s (on sale I think), and wanted to make something with it, but didn’t know what. I had seen several recipes in my new Italian cookbook calling for swiss chard, so I suggested […] (Read more)

I just submitted the umthesis package to CTAN. I will of course keep an up to date version on my own server, but now it will be more accessible to others. If you have not checked out CTAN, I highly recommend it. There are many packages of all sorts that will make your TeXing more enjoyable.

Just a brief note that I have updated the umthesis.cls Revision 14 has the following improvements More documentation in class file Two different abstract environments Nicer copyright page An already compiled example file (pdf) which demonstrates all the features in the class, plus all the files necessary to compile it You can download the umthesis zip file, browse the umthesis directory, or view the subversion repository (Read more)