In-Flight Fresh Baked Cookies on Midwest

oreos and milk at cruising altitude

NJ or PA at 30K ft

The Rumor mill indicates that OS X 10.4, codenamed Tiger, has reached golden master status at build 8A428.

Any day now...

Art in Chinatown.

More Hobbitses

Amidst the grease.

4am Hobbit Breakfast

That's cooking in fresh bacon grease baby.

I gots flickr working!

I can send a picture to a flickr address, and flickr automatically posts the picture to blogger!

Also, bad grammar and misunderstanding recapitulate bad grammar and misunderstanding.

Bulk GFS Cheese

Co-op reminiscences.

Pop Envy

Pop Envy
Originally uploaded by satmandu.

Differences

The discriminating straphanger will notice upon detraining at the 57th st F station an atmosphere quite unlike others in Manhattan.

The platform feels clean and renovated, and the basement mezanine with the ticket booth has the design of a 70s office building or hospital, down to the steel framed glass walls and the speckled floor.

A seventies era room, in good repair, a recursed artificial island.

iTunes stopped recognizing my iPod shuffle today. This in and of itself wouldn't be a deal-breaker if my iPod is doing the yellow/green LED dance of death.

So the affair with iTunes was nice while it lasted, but now it appears that I need to move to greener pastures.

I need an application that will let me sync songs to my iPod, and also let me share music to the network. It would also be nice if I could play music to my airport express, which is hooked to the best speakers in the room - the ones on the Japanese TV.

Sure you say, I should probably just go ahead and reformat my computer; it has been six months, and now is the time. OS X 10.4 is supposed to go Golden Master on Friday, so since we're on the cusp of a new version anyway, why not just wait?

Silly Mortals...

I think the idea that beams from this most brightly is Despite...

Underdog "Stinky" robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship: "

Wired has the story of how four students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona beat some of the
best schools in the country, including MIT, to win the national underwater robot championship. The students, who are
all undocumented Mexican immigrants, built their robot on the cheap in just three days, using PVC pipe, off-the-shelf
electronics and a few tampons. Called ‘Stinky’, the bot can record sonar pings and retrieve objects 50 feet below the
water’s surface. In addition to the top prize, the bot also ended up winning the design and technical writing
awards. The team’s total budget ended up being just $800, compared to $11,000 for the MIT team.

(Via engadget.com.)

Wil is deathblogging another one of his cats again.

question

Does diplomatic immunity counts as a life goal?

question

Does Diplomatic Immunity count as a life goal?

his arms wide open

Antonia and I got into a discussion this wet New York Easter Monday afternoon about the use of metaphor in professional writing. One becomes accustomed to using a very personally relevant library of metaphors in writing that isn't acceptable in formal writing styles, such as legal writing. It is't that other writing styles don't have metaphors, but that the vocabulary of metaphor is different, in sufficiently widespread use in the technical jargon to have achieved a level of cross generational timelessness or classicism.

Any discourse that necessitates an initiation into its terms is by definition exclusive, but more importantly, biased towards an inability to integrate the new and current.

I want to see a SCOTUS opinion come down that ends with, I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH.

The recipes used for this Sunday's Easter dinner.

Lamb recipe from here:

ROASTED LAMB ROSEMARY
        1(6- to 9½-pound) leg of lamb
        ½ cup minced fresh parsley
        2 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary or ¼ cup dried whole rosemary
        ¼ cup vegetable oil, divided
        6 to 10 cloves garlic, finely chopped
        Salt and pepper to taste
        1-1/4 cup Chablis or other dry white wine

Make several deep slits on outside of lamb and set aside. 

Combine parsley, rosemary, with 1 tablespoon oil, garlic, 

and cardamom. 

Stuff slits with this herb mixture. 

Brush outside of lamb with one tablespoon of the oil, 

and sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper. 
        

Place lamb in a roasting pan and bake at 450  for 

5 to 10 minutes. Combine remaining 2 tablespoons 

oil and wine. Reduce heat to 325 ; bake lamb for 2½ 

hours or until meat thermometer reaches 160 , basting 

occasionally with wine mixture. Let stand a few minutes 

before carving. Yield: at least 6 servings.

Also, a creamed spinach recipe from Shana. She notes that you should not let anybody intimidate you into putting in too much spinach.

SHANA'S CREAMED SPINACH

Big Bag Frozen Chopped Spinach
Microwave and squeeze out as much liquid as possible.

White Sauce:

½ c. Butter (One Stick)
½ c. Flour

Melt Butter, add flour over heat...heat until bubbly.
Whisk in slowly (or a fork, it's okay)

4 c. Milk (or ½ and ½ if you're feeling frisky)

Heat and stir over low to medium heat until the
mixture starts to boil gently. Heat and stir for
about 1-2 more minutes until the white sauce is
thickened.

Add a few pinches of nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste.

Stir in cooked, drained spinach, and form mixture into
Shana effigy.
Consume gleefully.


Dinner consumed gleefully while watching Brigadoon and drinking Croatian liquor.

gifting

There's something to be said about the benefits of trade on a micro level.

Trade generally refers to a barter of goods for something of perceived similar value, the exchange generally completed at the same time.

Gifting however, is a far riskier proposition. Something of perceived value is given in exchange for good will. Ephemeral good will may or may not be returned with something tangible.

What makes gifting interesting is the occasional tendency to gift in return with something thematically linked to the previous gift.

Liquor for liquor. Favours for Favors. Books for books.

And for the lucky few, comics for comics.

I just received my last birthday gift, from Laura, the first six episodes of Ennis's Preacher in graphic novel form.

Rock.

All this time I've been thinking that Fischerspooner is a German band, but as it turns out, they are based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Terri Schiavo's Blog

Michael Schiavo's Blog

Terri & Ray Charles Duet

I didn't do it.

Allen has been the only living person to email me for the last 24 hours.

As he correctly points out:

I am the first and only!!

I love breaking records.

rock.