Two neat lamps you can fill (with things): Bacchus Table & Bedside Lamp and Atrium Glass Table Lamp #
The one supervolcano flowchart everyone should read! (inspired by the videos at Uh-Oh, via Boing Boing) Update, December 7, 2009: Check out this rad “Heart of the Caldera” sign we saw by the side of the road during our trip…
I have two: Backup my laptop Change my passwords Last year I didn’t change my password until July, after I had inadvertently typed it instead of my URL into a blog comment form. The first is there because at some…
Stephanie and I made cheese—for the first time! Have to say it was pretty magical just watching it come together, all in about 30 minutes. Just a gallon of Clover Stornetta whole milk, 2 tsp of citric acid, and 1/4…
Yesterday I made cheese. Mozzarella cheese. Today I made pizza. With homemade dough. Using the homemade cheese. Stephanie took some pictures along the way. Shredding the cheese Browning some ham Toasting some pine nuts Working the dough Drizzling with olive…
As the holidays were approaching, I dusted off the photo book generator I’d written last year and set out to create another photographic travelogue for our families in the US and France. This time things were a little easier because…
Apparently the “g” from last June didn’t stick. I have to admit, I like this one better. Update: more info here (though now I think I like André’s better)
Way back in July of 2007 I got this email out of the blue: Hi, Justin, I’m an author and I ran across your blog while searching for descriptions of San Francisco homes or apartment buildings. I have a series…
We were thinking about getting out to some snow after New Years, but in the end we stuck a little closer to home, heading back to Point Lobos instead. We stayed until sunset.
When you rotate the cover of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Princess Bride DVD by 180 degrees, it still reads “princess bride”. Go ahead, turn your laptop upside down. 20th Anniversary Edition of the Princess Bride I just discovered…
Orange jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
My recipe for Melt-in-the-Mouth Cookies came from one of my mom’s handwritten recipe cards, which my dad scanned and emailed to me back when I was in college. I transcribed it and then posted it to my blog in June…
You might come home to contraptions that look like this: I was working late last night, and while I was out, Stephanie started making ricotta salata (a pressed, salted, and dried variety of ricotta cheese). Apparently it’s going to age…
We were going to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge last weekend when we stumbled upon Fort Point—which we had no idea was open to the public. We never made it across the bridge.
Last weekend we made our first ricotta and our second batch of mozzarella—all so we could make a lasagna from scratch. We even made the fresh pasta sheets and tomato sauce. The tomatoes were from cans, but it’s winter, so…
After Stephanie and I took a Cheese and Olive Oil class and I took a Local Cheese and Beer class at the Cheese School of San Francisco last fall, we decided to sign up for another 2 classes during their…
This morning Stephanie offered to take me into work on her Vespa (I usually walk down Pine) to catch the inauguration—they were going to be projecting it in one of the bigger conference rooms at work. Half asleep, and hanging…
…or are you just happy to see me?
I appear to have that unusual cold. And it’s been a long time since I’ve caught anything, surprising even, given the several outbreaks that have spread through work. I’m not exactly sure what brought me down, since no one I…
You could easily mistake it for Lincoln’s (which is maybe the point). Taken by Jerry Spagnoli. (via The Online Photographer)
Two neat lamps you can fill (with things): Bacchus Table & Bedside Lamp and Atrium Glass Table Lamp #
Dad made the Andersen’s Pea Soup we got him for Christmas. Looks like it made A LOT. I wonder how it compares to his Campbell’s? #
For future reference: GeSHi is a free software library written in PHP that allows syntax highlighting of source code for several markup and programming languages #
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
–Jim Jarmusch #
Acronym of the day: JBODs (source: Unusual disk latency, via Andre) #
Nice, stick it to the TSA:
Neat: Abandoned London #
What the? it is against maritime laws in the area to board a vessel by force after it has been taken by pirates. #
This Presidential Motorcade video is fascinating, especially the trailing vans with what appear to be cameramen sticking out of the roofs #
Nice collage: State of the DSLR market #
For future reference: Writing in the Age of Distraction by Cory Doctorow #
Love the photo of this Angora goat #
I think I finally am starting to understand shorting now: How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (but geez, what a crazy game investing is) #
Sometimes I wonder, is xkcd’s humor universally accessible, or is it completely niche? I’m An Idiot #
I agree with Robin: Yokoo is pretty compelling. I think it’s that weird combination of someone being good at multiple things that don’t usually find a home in one body. #
I love the “outtakes”: Durex’s Get it On commercial SFW? #
Watch $25 travel from London to Cambodia through Kiva: The Story Of A Kiva.org Loan #
I might respond to this later: Mark Bittman on his recommendations for the 2009 American pantry #
Probably the main reason I’d think about getting a KitchenAid mixer: Making Sausage From Scratch #
Blog post title of the day: The country’s new robots.txt file #
Fun read: Inauguration Day is also moving day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue #
I thought Obama messed up!
No way! #
Man oh man, this is too good: Where the Hell is Matt? The videogame edition #
I’m going to have to introduce my cheese to Joy’s Sausage #
Ctrl+Z for unclosing Firefox tabs: CTRL+SHIFT+T = restore last closed tab #
Carrboro Creative Coworking gets featured on NPR’s Marketplace (via Corey) more here…
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I dunno, I still think Ragnagnas is a form of Southeast Asian dance… #
Long exposure video… Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky #
Discuss amongst yourselves:
If a barfing unicorn needs a unicorn chaser, will the barfing unicorn serve as its own chaser?
Yeah, this is pretty much the best thing ever: Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys (Baby = Roomba) #
Terrie’s hens lay green eggs (we need to find a way to get her eggs, our cheese, and Joy’s sausage together… Sebastopol Quiche?) #
Mommy, why do people hurt robots? Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart #
Some choice excerpts from White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code…
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket.
“The chance to be under the same roof with his kids, essentially to live over the store, to be able to see them whenever he wants, to wake up with them, have breakfast and dinner with them — that has made him a very happy man.”
“I’ll never forget going to work on a Saturday morning, getting called down to the Oval Office because there was something [George W. Bush] was mad about,” said Dan Bartlett, who was counselor to Mr. Bush. “I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes. He wouldn’t even let me cross the threshold.”
If you enjoyed my epic post, Melt-in-the-Mouth Cookies, a brief history, then you’ll be happy to know I’ve just updated it with scans from the newly discovered source of my Grandmother’s recipe clipping #