2007-08-03

CSA Week 11

  • mesclun
  • cherry zebra tomatoes!
  • blueberries (best of the year)
  • green bell peppers
  • [farmgirl organics] tomatillos
  • cucumber
  • zucchino
  • cabbage
  • onions
  • [green acres] basil
  • green beans
  • beets&greens
  • carrots
  • cantaloupe (not pictured)

pasta


pasta
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet

menu (picture later)

  • pesto
  • cuban black beans and rice
  • a couple of cole slaws (maybe 3)
  • zucchini tacos
  • more cantaloupe-basil sorbet

2007-07-25

Week 10


  • red tropea onion
  • green and purple bell peppers
  • lemon basil!
  • kohlrabi
  • mesclun
  • green beans
  • beets!
  • honeydew
  • apples
  • zucchini
  • cucumber
  • garlic and tomatoes*

2007-07-21

Well, that’s one way to put it

But that’s just a little crude, don’t you think?
To make the [abstinence-only] point, Mr. Love grabbed a tape dispenser and snapped off two fresh pieces. He slapped them to his filing cabinet and the floor; they trapped dirt, lint, a small metal bolt. “Now when it comes time for them to get married, the marriage pulls apart so easily,” he said, trying to unite the grimy strips. “Why? Because they gave the stickiness away.”

2007-07-18

Summer Vegetable Crêpes


Summer Vegetable Crêpes
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet

menu

  • crêpes with corn and golden beets, goat cheese and ricotta; served with steamed green beans and carrots, and beurre blanc; cantaloupe-basil sorbet
  • thai eggplant curry, sticky rice
  • zucchini tacos
  • spaghetti with overgrown arugula, broccoli, and walnuts
  • chicken paprikás with cucumber-onion salad

CSA Week 9

Half the summer still remains!
  • tomatoes*
  • cantaloupe
  • big soup-making arugula
  • mesclun
  • green beans
  • kohlrabi
  • large and two small cucumbers
  • zucchini
  • cherries
  • green acres thai eggplants*
  • green acres carrots*
  • lots of broccoli
  • farmgirl organics golden beets*
  • corn

Cool tool of the month: regexhibit

Regexhibit matches regex using perl, and provides all kinds of details about the match / capture groups. Previously I would test regexes (regexen?) in SubEthaEdit, but this does it on the fly. Very handy indeed!

2007-07-16

“exquisitely ugly”

In just a few years, the exquisitely ugly shoes known as "Crocs" have spread around the world like a Paris Hilton sex tape, giving rise to an epidemic of croc babies and their more egregious counterparts, croc parents. (Slate article)

2007-07-11

Vegetable day #8

  • crimini and oyster mushrooms*
  • parsley*
  • green onions
  • the best cabbage I have ever had, picked this morning (see below, all four slaws)
  • collard greens
  • basil*
  • corn
  • zucchini
  • non-chioggia Italian heirloom beets
  • cucumbers large and small
  • garlic*
  • broccoli
  • tomatoes*
  • peaches!
* I bought / not in the box.

Menu

This week the CSA box was big, but we also had plans for someone or other to come over on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. So I had to supplement with a few extra exciting things.
  • 4 cole slaws: szechuan [with broccoli, cabbageturnip, chili oil, sesame oil, and a bit of soy sauce], thai [with basil, mint, peanuts, tomato, chile, and lots of fish sauce], american [with creamy mustardy dressing, peas, and raisins], hungarian [with onion]
  • the lamb kibbe I've been meaning to make for a month. The ground lamb is now defrosted.
  • sautéed zucchini with lemon and garlic
  • tabbouleh
  • caldo verde or caldo gallego (some soup with chorizo/chouriço and kale)
  • corn fritter of some kind (probably a couple kinds, with onion or zucchini)
  • tofu marsala with lots of mushroomy goodness
  • omelet with bacon and mushrooms (and a touch of chile paste)

2007-07-05

  • cabbageturnips
  • green onions
  • zucchini
  • cucumber
  • nappa
  • red leaf lettuce
  • broccoli
  • kale
  • corn!

2007-06-29

haha tshirt

I hate your kids

CSA week 6!

  • cabbageturnip!
  • 3 zucchini
  • carrots
  • green onions
  • spinach
  • broccoli
  • red leaf lettuce
  • more nappa
  • [Paul Friday] strawberries & “flamin’ fury” peaches
  • [growingpower] tomato

2007-06-21

menu

  • stir fried beef with nappa and scallions
  • bekana and bok choy with tofu, oyster sauce
  • fior di latte gelato with strawberries
  • pizze – asparagus and margherita; salad
  • chili basil chicken
  • pan fried tofu with sautéed mixed greens

2007-06-20

recipes not to lose

I was figuring out what I would do with my basket of white currants from Nichols farm, and settled upon an Austrian dessert that first I found a picture of, but then struggled to find an appropriate recipe. I wanted to make sure to have an appropriately moist cake, a layer of berries (not baked so they burst), and meringue. A baked together meringue cake looks good for another time when I want to make pastry cream. Not related: I also ran across a turkish dish with eggplant that looks tasty.

CSA Week 5


  • 1lb broccoli
  • big white radish+greens
  • small bunch red radishes
  • carrots
  • bok choy
  • turnip greens
  • [mick klug] cherries
  • mesclun
  • [nichols] white currants
  • scallions
  • lettuce
  • giant head of nappa
  • basil!

2007-06-18

yesterday's day of mexican cooking


a trio of salsas
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet
here, a trio of salsas. We made tortillas, three fillings, sauces, and drinks.

summer salad with carrots and strawberries


2007-06-15

A nicely set table; two food pics


My flash isn’t digital-ttl capable, so I have to shoot all my flash shots manually (a useful exercise anyway, I suppose). Here by accident I had it on “high”, ISO 500, 1/125 f/5 (40mm). I especially like how the wood spatula handle floats against all the white.

Perhaps less interesting than the picture: this is two chinese preparations of choy. On the left, japanese bekana or tokyo choy is cooked with water chestnuts and cubed frozen (spongy) tofu, in oyster sauce (or, as Scott prefers, “brown” sauce) with scallion, ginger, and garlic. On the right is bok choy with carrots in a gingery miso sauce with honey. Both were delicious last night and for lunch today.

a varied dinner party menu

  • fresh tortillas
  • Masa for whatever other antojitos we want to make (sopes anyone?)
  • Pork-raisin-almond-chile filling (see below)
  • Shredded chicken filling
  • Beans with pork
  • Fresh and cooked tomatillo salsas
  • Tomato salsa
  • Guacamole
  • Zucchini and avocado carpaccio with herbs (inspired by last week’s Bittman column – oh, to be Patricia Wells…)
  • Someone: bring crab, please
and for another time:
  • jeweled rice
  • lamb kibbe (see below; I was going to make it before this lovely article in the Times. I suppose I’ll cook some of it, though I do prefer my Prairie Grass Farm lamb raw.)
  • mouhamara (which I learned today is the top web search the lands people on my blog)

A very happy surprise!

A friend is rushing out of town and called to offer us two tickets he had to tonight’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!

I really like the stuff


vitaminwater is the subject of the latest Slate “Ad Report Card” column. I have liked the stuff since I first saw it on 10/$10 sale. My favorite flavors are the red ones, the new XXX and Power-C. A friend alleges that all vitaminwater causes digestive … unpleasantness. Fortunately, I haven't had his problem. Also, the euro talk show ad is great – far better than any attempt I’ve seen for example on SNL since Sprockets.

2007-06-13

For the curious

How I get it all home: in my 1999 Chrome Metropolis messenger bag, of course!

Multicolored carrots



I have mentioned to people carrots of colors other than orange, and they tend to register complete astonishment. It turns out we can blame the Dutch in the 16th century for favoring patriotic Orange carrots.

Here are two, which I'd call red and purple. The red has just a thin layer of bright pigment (so you'd never want to peel these!) and the purple one goes about halfway into the root.

Yes, Shelled Peas

peas!These peas from Mick Klug farm are only here for 2–3 weeks a year. I cannot eat enough of them to last the rest of the year.

CSA Week 4

Last week we got our box on Saturday instead of Wednesday because I was out of town for a couple days, so 4 days later it’s quite a similar assortment, plus two items I bought from others.
  • Carrots
  • Bok choy
  • Bekana
  • Green leaf lettuce
  • Sugar snap peas (hiding basket in the back)
  • Mesclun
  • White radishes
  • Kale
  • [Iron Creek Farm] Purple Cherokee tomato
  • [Mick Klug] shelled peas!

Dinner last night, lunch today

Quiche with mustard greens and bacon.

2007-06-11

I-64 story on Marketplace

You could call it Missouri’s “Big Dig” — just without the tunnels and the multibillion-dollar cost over-runs that Boston had.

2007-06-10

dinner

ceasar salad with buffalo strip steak

parker house rolls

marble cupcakes with semisweet chocolate glaze

menu

  • thai chili garlic fried noodle with carrot, broccoli rabe, and lemon basil
  • stir fried bekara, miso-honey sauce & bok choy with oyster sauce
  • bacon and mustard greens quiche
  • lamb kofta or something meatballish with yogurt, and some type of naan or roti
  • kale and butternut squash risotto
  • salad with strip steak, hard-cooked egg, and sugar snap peas; roasted purple potatoes

CSA Week 3

  • sugar snap peas
  • bok choy
  • 5 carrots
  • bekara (a japanese choy)
  • kale
  • curly mustard
  • green leaf lettuce
  • lemon basil
  • broccoli rabe/raab/rapini
  • mesclun

2007-06-05

From Chris Dodd's people, this is just hilarious. Wolf Blitzer is such a tool!

2007-06-03

ubuntu myth feisty wlan wireless break

check /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist for wireless card (scott's is rtl8185; 818x are blacklisted) and for that card, add an extra character to end of essid (dumb!)

2007-05-30

I am lazy. I found a binary.

iTunesFS.
iTunesFS

and a menu

  • stir fried kohlrabi, leaves, and yu choy – vegetarian sauce (grrrrr friends)
  • radish masala parathas! and beef sukka
  • mesclun salad with teriyaki tofu and timbale of coconut rice
  • southern-style bacony mustard and radish greens; cornbread
  • peanut-crusted trout over sautéed swiss chard from Jacques Pépin

CSA week 2

veggies week 2 Clockwise from berries:
  • ‘Early glow’ strawberries
  • Curly mustard greens
  • Baby lettuce (red romaine, oak leaf, green leaf, etc.)
  • Baby mesclun (spinach, mizuna, bok choy, arugula, purple mustard, etc.)
  • Two more cabbageturnips!
  • Cilantro
  • Swiss chard
  • Tomatoes (bought separately, different farm)
  • White radishes
  • Orange and purple carrots

2007-05-29

tamales de acelgas

tamales de acelgas swiss chard leaves being filled with masa

This dish tamales de acelgas, wrapped in swiss chard, called out to me from the chapter on tamales in my primary mexican cookbook, Diana Kennedy’s Art of Mexican Cooking. The pork filling combines sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and umami in a marvelous balance that is definitely Mexican, but as she notes, hints of the middle east (raisins! almonds!) but I would say also of southeast asia (one can imagine adding lemongrass, some ginger and lime; switching the pasillas for bird chiles, and passing it off as Malaysian).


Tamales de acelgas pork raisin filling

I had made the filling before, but we were impatient, and ended up filling masa balls and deep frying them (yum). This time, however, I blanched the swiss chard, spread it with the mixed dough (fresh masa, btw, from a Pilsen tortilla factory), and carefully rolled up the leaves around it and set them in the steamer for a very long time. I am certain that I spread it too thick and made them too large, but I only had 10 large leaves. Nevertheless, the tamales are marvelous – especially for lunch the next day(s) – but the filling is so good on its own, and so easy, in the future I will probably just make a pile of tortillas and serve it as tacos.

aha

Thanks to an astute reader, the mystery vegetable has been identified as a purple kohlrabi. I wasn't off in thinking it was turnip-like – its german name means “cabbageturnip.” I'm gonna call it that. We were not alone in being perplexed.

2007-05-23

Now, what to do with it—

  • Radish greens soup
  • Either pad thai or chinese pork and garlic chives stir fry
  • Lamb’s quarter pesto
  • Stir-fried yu choy with black bean sauce or oyster sauce
  • Arugula and roasted beet salad
  • Mustard or beet greens au gratin
  • Tamales de acelgas (swiss chard wrapped tamales)
  • Mustard greens with spicy ginger - honey - miso sauce

It’s here! First CSA box

Picture of tasty vegetables week 1 Clockwise from the back at about 11 o’clock:
  • red romaine
  • beets (with their greens)
  • a mystery root vegetable cabbageturnip! (purple kohlrabi)
  • radishes (with greens)
  • a rainbow of chard – orange, white, red, yellow
  • yu choy
  • arugula
  • cilantro
  • purple mustard greens
  • lamb’s quarter

2007-05-22

lol

You cannot resist lolcats.

Our CSA starts Wednesday!

yay! Others have alleged that we won't be able to figure out what to do with an abundance of, say, beets. I'm up to the challenge (I also happen to really love beets).

2007-05-17

MacFuse has changed my life

Spotlight, and metadata search in general (cf. WinFS, the iTunes library, iTunes for PDFs, the iPhoto library; even bibdesk) is still supposed to (read: hasn’t yet but just around the corner!) change the way we store, organize, and interact with our data. And certainly there is a place for metadata search. But files still have to be stored on disks, and regardless of how complicated you make your symlink structure, distinct servers remain distinct. File systems are not going away. They remain “familiar” according to MacFuse developer Amit Singh. His port of FUSE (Filesystems in USEr space) takes the familiarity of a folders-and-files to its extreme.

It has a sheerly practical side too though. It's really nice to mount ssh volumes of remote servers as if they are local. And, for people who have to deal with Windows hardware like external drives, it offers what Tiger left out, NTFS-3g read/write support. Here is Singh’s tech demo video, showing some other cool stuff, like a Picasa file system. (There is one for flickr as well.) The "albums and photos" is a direct analog of "folders and files" and there’s no reason we shouldn't be able to access it like any other volume. I have not yet tested the iPod file system – all filesystems are just plugins for the underlying kernel plugin – but it should be the easiest way to copy stuff from an iPod. Right now I'm mainly using it to work on various remote servers. As nice as cyberduck is, sshfs is the way things should be – and now, at last, are.

2007-05-16

the only appropriate remembrance

of Falwell is on Slate, where Timothy Noah writes, “He was a bigot, a reactionary, a liar, and a fool. Herewith, a Falwell sampler.” …
On global warming: “I can tell you, our grandchildren will laugh at those who predicted global warming. We’ll be in global cooling by then, if the Lord hasn’t returned. I don't believe a moment of it. The whole thing is created to destroy America’s free enterprise system and our economic stability.”

Classy?

“These phones are aimed at classy users we haven’t been addressing,” said Motorola’s chief executive, Edward J. Zander, who has been guiding the company through a turbulent yearlong downturn….

The phones were introduced at a dance studio in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and recorded video demonstrations included the singer Fergie, the soccer star David Beckham and the race car driver Danica Patrick.

2007-05-14

São Paulo sans ads

IMG_6091 Originally uploaded by Tony de Marco.

I read about this a while ago, and finally found some cool pictures of it… the entire city has banned advertising in public space. From onthecommons:

As Brazilian journalist Robert Pompeu de Toledo wrote, the ad ban is “a rare victory of the public interest over private, of order over disorder, aesthetics over ugliness, of cleanliness over trash. For once in life, all that is accustomed to coming out on top in Brazil has lost.”

The article also refers to a project called Delete! in Vienna, which covered ads and signage all in the same color wrapping.

2007-05-13

foodlist

  • baked blue potatoes with gruyère, (frozen) butternut squash soup
  • pechuga de pollo al ajillo, mashed blue potato
  • thai curry (soup) of some variety, with eggplant, carrots, basil, sticky rice, bean sprouts
  • pasta with zucchini, red lentil, tomato sauce
  • tacos of guacamole, chicken “andouille”, mushrooms, and new favorite salsa
  • swiss chard & red lentil curry soup, with bread

meat for at least a month!

I bought meat at the Tower Grove market (Norris pork, Seven Thunder Bison, and Prairie Grass lamb) because it's really expensive at Green City here in chicago. So for my own memory, here is what's in the freezer (including what Scott had):
  • 2lb ground lamb
  • 1lb ground bison
  • 4 jalapeño-cheese bison sausages
  • 8 lamb-apple bratwurst
  • 1lb bacon
  • 1¼lb bison london broil
  • ½ lb × 2 bison skirt steak
  • 1lb beef stew meat
  • ½ lb ground beef
  • 3 chicken breasts
  • 1 chicken “andouille”

2007-05-04

next

Frozen Yogurt!
Frozen Yogurt. Image (c) 101Cookbooks

Image from 101cookbooks.

2007-05-03

*drool*

The company’s whole way of being was on display. Five workers were slicing spring strawberries for sorbet, made only with San Bernardo mineral water from Piedmont. Mr. Martinetti was surrounded by boxes of high-grade Ecuadorean and Venezuelan chocolate, hazelnut paste from Piedmont and Madagascar vanilla.

Into a huge steel vat, workers had just poured several cases of $30-a-bottle Spanish sherry for one flavor, Málaga, otherwise made of milk, organic eggs and sugar. (Raisins would be added later.) Mr. Martinetti dunked a lowly plastic cup into the vat and poked his nose in as if it were a glass of his family’s Barolo.

New gelateria to open in Manhattan. (And why I make my own gelato… ain't none of that shit in St Louis, though of course a couple blocks away from us in Chicago is Canady le Chocolatier, who is an artisan in every way.)

It's been two days! WUSTL is still great!

That's the tone of nearly every article in the official mouthpiece of Washington University, the Record, which they dump in our email boxes twice a week. It's over-the-top self-congratulation. And whenever there is a new ranking of any kind published, I am surprised they don't have a special issue.

if/when i visit mariana

Most important, they run two of the best and most distinctive restaurants in Mexico City. Which is another way of saying they run two of the best and most distinctive Mexican restaurants in the world.

2007-05-02

some british guy for slate on france and turkey

“Sarkozy is the first leading politician in any large European country to say loudly and clearly that Turkey will not join the European Union.” But I don't think Sarko is nearly the showman that de Gaulle was. (full transcript tr/en and orig fr in very cool site – check out cartoons!)

Email: “Silent corporate cancer”

”It eats away at people's time, a minute at a time. I call it bleeding to death from a thousand pinpricks.“ Not unlike, say, blog reading or writing ;)

technomagic!

bluetooth ProximityI just set up Proximity on my Powerbook using this handy guide, and I love it. It's one of those nerdy things that ought to “just work” and sure enough it does! Unsure of the drain on battery for keeping bluetooth on (phone or computer). I just walk away, and within my polling interval, the screen saver activates and requires a password. And here I thought bluetooth was just for lesbian fashion accessories! (They really seem to love the handsfree devices – no other group have I seen wear them out to bars, clubs etc.)

2007-04-22

food system thoughts

A friend and I were email-discussing this Sunday’s NYT magazine piece by Michael Pollan, whose recent work on food and the American food system is really superb. But he stops short of real policy recommendations to create the “right” incentives instead of the perverse ones currently on offer. Here's an excerpt of what I was saying (at the beginning, I qualify to his suggestion that we need to retrain many farmers in order to reduce the massive surplus of commodity corn, wheat, and soy).

I don't know – I actually disagree some about "retraining" because don't we actually need more farmers of smaller size, producing more diverse crops in more places?

If anything the human cogs in the monsanto / cargill / adm machine should be retrained in managing sustainable farm ecosystems (on their own). So we should create systematic incentives for consumers to want high quality local, sustainable, seasonal food; for distributors to make it available to consumers; and for producers themselves to disperse so as to reduce, if not strictly minimize, distance from field to table for most of what we eat.


For me as a consumer, the only incentive I need is sublime fresh food. Fresh green zebra, black cherokee, and brandywine tomatoes in august keep me from buying tomatoes the rest of the year. Two caveats: I know I am an anomaly in that level of zealotry (or devotion to tomatoes), and I do feel somewhat hypocritical with respect to geographic-heritage foods like Parmigiano-Reggiano.

But I think Pollan shares my problem: not eveyone is, shall we say, enraptured by food as I am (and I would venture he is). I hope you read his last article in the nytm. It feels like he, though much more knowledgable and eloquent than I, still quickly reaches the point of, "Doesn't the food just speak to you??" — if it doesn't, then where do we start to change the food system? It's very frustrating.

There's still a market, senseless to some of us, for out-of season shit from far away; for factory farmed meats (truly don't get how anyone could shop at a grocery store after having anything fresh – the time from slaughter is at least several more days, not to mention the other problems); for any and all the products of preservatives and new!improved! marketing.

compression algorithms

compared!

upcoming treats, egg article

exploring baked eggs: with leek in my pretty glasses, and with chorizo and pimentón (to serve with delectable primitivo! – A Mano has long been a go-to pizza wine, but I'll have to try to find this other one.)

2007-04-21

Vanilla chocolate bread

Vanilla chocolate bread Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet.

things to make

absurd^2

No, that is no more apt a description of wine than type. Seriously. (otherwise lovely article via Jessica).
In his photo-heavy book Helvetica, designer Lars Müller praises the titular typeface for its “understated self-assurance” – describing it as if it were an especially pleasing glass of shiraz.

2007-04-20

lawsee!

Uncle Ben is a rare survivor in the once-crowded world of racist spokescharacters. Most of his contemporaries were fired a long time ago. … Today, no company would be dumb enough to build a brand around a black servant, but the ones now in supermarkets have been grandfathered in, rendered innocuous by the passage of time, image overhauls, and judicious wardrobe adjustments. But it's worth remembering what these spokescharacters truly are: a final, living vestige of Jim Crow America.

useless

slate on skymall:
The issue also features the "upside-down tomato garden," the "remote controlled robotic hammerhead shark," the "pop-up hot dog cooker," the "million-germ-eliminating travel toothbrush sanitizer," the "window-mounted cat porch," the "world's smallest indoor remote control helicopter," the "Turbo-Groomer® COBALT" nose-hair trimmer, the "Sudoku glass tabletop set," the "Solar-powered mole repeller," (what, no handcrank in case of nuclear winter?), the "versatile mock rock in five sizes." (For those unaware of the purpose of a "mock rock"—since real ones are not in short supply—they are designed to "hide problem areas in your yard or garden.")

nyt discovers underwear

“There’s been an explosion in printed underwear, low-rise underwear and different kinds of boxer briefs,” said John Sievers, an owner of International Jock, who said that his business has doubled in three years. Underwear by C-IN2 and Andrew Christian, artfully constructed with seams or straps to make the most of a man’s, um, profile, has done extremely well, he added.

2007-04-19

open formats for open government

A legislative staff employee who would lose his job if he were quoted here by name said, "By the time those lobbyists were done talking, it sounded like ODF (Open Document Format, the free and open format used by OpenOffice.org and other free software) was proprietary and the Microsoft format was the open and free one."

2007-04-17

Findings from a group of 12 study patients showed that vitespen vaccination (trademarked as Oncophage) was effective in stimulating the patient's immune system to attack the tumor cells, a function that is known medically as tumor-specific immune response. All the patients had recurrent, high-grade glioma, and all showed the immune response. The vaccine is made from the patient's own tumor.

grad school is absurd

We have a make-up class to schedule for Bayesian, meaning coordinating among the class and with the professor, whose schedule can be tricky:
Sorry, but the time we chose (4/30 at 4:30) won't work for me. I've got out-of-town company, and I'm taking my first Pilates class at that time.

2007-04-15

vodka

The Eurocrats in Brussels are paid princely salaries to decide whether feta has to come from Greece (yes) or how curved cucumbers can be (Class I cukes are allowed a bend of 10 millimeters per 10 centimeters of length, according to Commission Regulation No. 1677/88). My beef is with the whole brouhaha over a liquor whose greatest, and only, virtue is that it is colorless and tasteless.

2007-04-12

i love wine

NYT wine columnist:
“What I’m about to propose is a do-it-yourself method that has a lot to offer to just about anybody who loves wine, or wants to learn about it. In fact, if you’ll join in with me, we will take this home wine class together and be the better for it. Let me explain.”

to this I would add, go to good free tastings at the same wine shop. People ask how I know lots of interesting wine, or how I can manage to pair pretty well (or at least thoughtfully, rather than randomly) with food— and for me a good deal of the experience has been at free or inexpensive tastings of some truly great wines that I certainly can't afford. It's also taught me a lot about those overpriced (though sometimes not) bottles.

stereotypes r fun

A few years ago, Meghan Daum, an op-ed contributor to The Los Angeles Times, wrote about a promising first date with a man that never led to a second one because, she later learned, the guy saw that she drove a Subaru Outback station wagon and concluded she must be a lesbian… “It’s not a choice. It’s the way we’re built.” (subaru ad with martina!).

2007-04-08

You better believe I will celebrate this mf

And while there are several eggs Benedict creation myths, some of which may be the subject of discussion among aficionados on National Eggs Benedict Day, a little-known observance celebrated on April 16, they share decidedly genteel roots: rich and distinguished New Yorkers, fabulous New York restaurants and an adventurous 19th-century dining culture unfettered by contemporary concerns about trans fats and cholesterol.

2007-04-07

trivia!

Some of the mysteries of easter explained: As it turns out, chicks have little to do with Jesus and a lot to do with spring.


New! Peep surgery!

2007-04-06

mobilization and technology

Protests Move From the Streets To YouTube

I hate america

Religion is dumb. Americans believe in religion. Americans are dumb.

hmmm

NeoOffice/J is really slow and cumbersome, and buggy in a few important ways. Openoffice itself is also slow... and now we're at OOo 2.2. I may try to build the Aqua alpha and see how that goes.

Powerpoint is evil

and hinders learning. (Also: previous Wired piece by Tufte, my hero).

cool bayesian image labeling

Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Image Annotation and Retrieval (see also here)

more e voting

Finally, it requires that the source code for e-voting machines be made publicly available. (we can hope!)

2007-04-05

haha

So I was just stopping by iusethis.com (mainly to see if anyone else had picked up on the beauty of catdoc/xls2csv) and the top like new item is this. I laughed. Especially at the icon!

good design

It's good that people notice it, and think a little bit about it: NYC Condoms mentioned again in nyt.

rabbit ravioli


rabbit ravioli
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet.
i meant to post this over here. ravioli stuffed with: rabbit braised in white wine and chicken stock, with fennel, shallots, goat cheese, and herbs, served with toasted pine nuts and browned butter.

2007-04-01

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[more on why i don't get people who came out later]. Now, as a 17-year-old 11th grader, Zach has passed through phases that many gay men of previous generations didn’t get to until their 20s, 30s, even 40s. “Eighth grade was kind of his militant time,” Mr. O’Connor says.

2007-03-02

nerdy roundup

IuseThis spinner shirtI found more cool/nerdy tshirts. I made myself an Iusethis account. I've discovered a lot of cool apps there. And, exciting progress from mydreamapp (cookbook!). Last, documentation of the subetha 'see' tool.