January 2012
Baked eggs are perfect: simple, nutritious,... →
As Mark Bittman demonstrates, baked eggs are The Simplest Egg, Yet the Most Elegant. You just need an egg and practically anything else for a superb dish. For example, here’s his recipe: …
RT @gknauss: You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there’s a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail.
My new year’s resolution in 2012 is to suck at things (and also excel) http://t.co/XROfuOLw
December 2011
RT @rsguthrie: Offer your seat. Lend a hand. Hold the door. Say good morning. Tip your hat. Acknowledge sacrifice. Give up your turn. Sh …
Negotiating with DS9 as to what can and cannot go on his YouTube channel. Kids today! :) #fb
Time for a little mid Christmas meal before roasting the turkey… http://t.co/leC8V7Cx
Merry Christmas! →
ADESTE FIDELES – THE THREE TENORS
A very important Christmas consideration: white... →
It may seem silly, but it is a debate I have been in a number of times myself, and based on this article, I am not alone: Colored vs. White Is a Christmas Light Debate – NYTimes.com. Personally…
Favorite Xmas music this year: Adeste Fideles (Placido Domingo) and O Come O Come Emmanuel (The Civil Wars)
RT @Darinstrauss: This is amazing footage. RT @mileskahn Happy Rick Perry is Terribly Uncomfortable Around Jews Day! http://t.co/c7BTXdQO
An evangelical remembers his friend Hitchens →
There are lots of great tributes and warm stories by many writers on Christopher Hitchens. One that I particularly liked was this one: My Take: An evangelical remembers his friend Hitchens – CNN…
An evangelical remembers his friend Hitchens http://t.co/C2L8FT22
Saturday Night (Christmas) music: Gabriel’s... →
This is a beautiful rendition, and a strikingly beautiful video to go with it. (Remember, this was made in the 80s, making this relatively subdued for the time.)
Sting – Gabriel’s Message…
Loading Christmas tunes on the iPods while DS9 and friend watch The Polar Express. #xmas
Friday Night (Christmas) Music: Silent Night with... →
And not just Battle and Marsalis. The whole ensemble is Battle, Marsalis, Leonard Slatkin, The Boys Choir of Harlem and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. See/hear:
Greatness.
Silent Night –…
Beautiful photography: Black Americana – Vogue.it →
While I am hesitant to make any claims for or against the subject matter in this photo spread, Black Americana – Vogue.it, I do think that the photos by themselves are great. I love this one in…
And wth is the ratio method of division?? I have a CompSci/Math degree and I can’t figure out why DS9 is learning this!! *passes out again*
September 2011
The Making of Blade Runner →
Open Culture has a great clip that was used to promote the movie in the early 1980s before it was released as a feature film. Open Culture also has some background on that clip that is well worth…
Juse seeing the movie poster for Happy Feet 2 makes me feel stabby…
J.C. Penney is too smart to ignore complaints... →
J.C. Penney was selling this T shirt online this morning to girls:
This made alot of people none too happy. They responded negatively and fast. J.C. Penney was also very responsive and pulled…
August 2011
Mass Graves and George Clooney http://t.co/rSQ24dr < George Clooney helps turn the cameras to something important
So excited! Found old recipes, &c I thought I had thrown out! W00t! http://t.co/iidympN
ok, I have “The Godfather” queued up, so I’ll catch up on the VMAs later!
Greatness. Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and... →
If you are lucky in life, you will get to be at a club or venue and be in the presence of greatness. It doesn’t happen often, and it is captured in photography even less. Fortunately here’s one such…
How to turn a city into a musical device (some thoughts after a conversation I had with @jamiewoo) http://t.co/1g0o4Pd
And so concludes a nutritious day at Centreville :) #fb http://t.co/rc4LI6g
On cleaning my bookshelves and extending Martin Buber in the digital age http://t.co/pxpfxnY
How to print a full sized house using WikiHouse →
While there has been alot of talk about 3D printers, this takes it to the next level. As this article (Design, Download And Print Your House With WikiHouse — The Pop-Up City) shows, …
this is filled with great sound and melody (“Balam Acab – Oh, Why”) ♫ http://t.co/LanPR67
How your employees (and contractors) visit sites... →
Is likely found in this article: Five tricks workers use to visit blocked Web sites. Anyone thinking of blocking web sites and spending alot of resources to do so would be advised to read this…
RT @Queen_UK: Text from Colonel Gadaffi: “Bollocks”.
I like you Firefox, really, but you have to suck less.
Listening to the night whispers of tall trees on a refreshingly cool night in August
The best restaurant service in the world, bar none, comes from The Ledbury in London. Read here to see why: http://ow.ly/1vyRv0
The state of mobile banking in North America,... →
Can be seen in this great infographic, here: A bigger version of it with more details, here: The Official Lookout Blog | Take The Money And Run: Mobile Banking On The Go.
(Hat tip to A…
In America, they write nasty editorials about S&P. In Italy, they are a bit harsher > http://ow.ly/1vtu9z
I like going to Canada Square in Toronto: it is like and old-new theatre
The brilliant long exposure photos of Yurikamome... →
Yurikamome, a…
Ugh. I can’t get thru an evening without falling asleep, which means I am up til 2 or 3, which I can’t get through …
Is India’s Elusive $35 Laptop at Hand? - http://t.co/VTLPPNs < I would dearly love to see this, though I am skeptical
Cool summer evening..reading on the porch, listening to the rain #fb http://twitpic.com/60khzg
Hey Doug and Rob Ford: congrats! You’ll soon be infamous characters in a Margaret Atwood book forevah! Brilliant!
This evening calls for ice cream with crumbled cookies on top and coffee on the side
How Liberals suport of the 14th Amendment would... →
I think what Joe Klein writes here, Krugman Quibble | Swampland, is exactly right:
If he had cited the 14th Amendment and simply ordered Treasury to pay the bills, he would have been impeached by…
Night rain. The best of sounds
Some thoughts on watching the U.S. Debt ceiling debacle, why the GOP is weaker than you think, and why Obama needs s… http://post.ly/2hze6
July 2011
The trailer of Happy Feet 2 makes me despair for humanity
RT @DougSaunders: RT @davidsteven: How the poor are screwing America’s rich http://t.co/AXcVJkQ
Now fantasizing about the Jo Ghost boots I saw that I don’t need but were oh so cheap and of course fantastic
listening to “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End- Abbey Road” ♫ http://blip.fm/~16gcdu