This is freaky: Carved watermelon resembles human mouth #
Made with the goat cheese we were draining here. I can’t wait for the chèvre chaud. Update: Stephanie just posted some photos she took during the process of making the chevre. (inspired by this is my eye)
For the past two years, I have been hatching a diabolical plan to re-release my photo galleries on top of a homebrew photo gallery CMS (currently they are powered by Gallery 2). I figured this would be just the push…
I don’t even begin to know how to search for a solution to this problem, let alone fix it. Maybe just by forcing myself to describe it, I’ll see through to a solution. If not, then I hope there’s someone…
Stephanie’s chevre was a little “young” when we ate it in our omelettes, but a week later it had just the right tang for chèvre chaud.
…Stephanie! I’m sure she’s so happy. That screenshot is from google.fr, where one is more likely to search for “sandwich americain”, but on google.com she currently has the #2 spot. The thumbnail links to this post: Sandwich Américain.
Made it all the way to Red Bluff on Friday night, and now we’re in Weed. Because I know you’re thinking it, Wikipedia says: The town of Weed gets its name from the founder of the local lumber mill and…
Man, we couldn’t have hoped for better (read: crazier) conditions. Woke up Sunday morning to find at least a foot of snow had dumped on us (and was still coming). Which was a catalyst for a number of firsts. First…
Can you spot it? It’s the orange plane up in the top left. Close up of the X-1 Naturally, you can see it hanging in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (which I visited a few years ago). The…
If I “dedicate” a digital photo to the public domain, have I dedicated the specific arrangement of pixels that make up that photo—or have I dedicated the more general visual image, the concept of that photo, if you will? In…
Just another day on my way to work… by Michael Rea, currently on display at 101 California
For a game that is supposed to represent the nadir of moral depravity, I find myself oddly drawn to the visual design of this poster. Maybe I just still want a motorcycle.
One more photo from my walk to work today. This one a little more abstract and over-saturated.
Back when I used to reserve my blog solely for personal communication, I hand coded some separate HTML documents related to my job and my grad school classes. Though both they and I have aged since then, I’ve wanted to…
Even though I could certainly afford to have someone help me do my taxes, I feel very strongly that I should not be forced by the government to pay someone to help me figure out how much I owe government.…
The latest version is 1.0, released February 24, 2009, compatible with WordPress v2.7 (and probably 2.6) This is an esoteric WordPress plugin (and widget) that will randomly extract one or more custom fields from your posts and display them in…
Not long after we started making cheese, Stephanie began talking about getting a separate fridge to age harder cheeses. In most cases they need to be stored at a fairly controlled 50-60°F, sometimes for a period of months. Anyone who’s…
So last night I listened to the Fresh Air program about the copyright/fair-use kerfuffle between Shepard Fairey, Mannie Garcia, and the Associated Press (AP). Both Shepard and Mannie were interviewed separately by Terrie Gross, the AP submitted a pre-written statement,…
Or a cascading series of errors Last night I had a platform release to help with, which begins at 7pm and takes about an hour. I don’t have much to do, but it helps for me to be on hand…
Stephanie wanted to start making farmhouse cheddar last weekend (the beginning of a weeks-long, if not months-long aging process) which required pressing the curds with a significant amount of weight. It turns out that balancing twenty pounds on top of…
This is freaky: Carved watermelon resembles human mouth #
I like the last bit:
To watch later: The DOM is a Mess #
Sentence of the day: Nothing is selling anywhere so everything sits in the now-constipated port. #
Something to cogitate on later: “The New Liberal Arts” Exhibit A and Exhibit B #
Some great pics of pre-1914 motorcycles on the road #
Typo or Emoticon from 1862? #
I totally read this as “feces”: M&M’s printed with faces #
Yet another xkcd instant classic: Base System #
To read later: The Trough of No Value (I really like the title/quote) #
Something else to read later: Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye #
To do later: Last chance for Gmail stickers #
Two great tastes that taste great together: Christian Bale takes David to the Dentist #
I hate to say I’m that guy, but I’ve been waiting for the “.1” release before upgrading WP to the 2.7 series. Looks like I know what I’ll be doing tonight. #
Please, will somebody just create a Fuck tha A.P. parody already?
Takes a while to get going, but this cracks me up: Trader Joe’s fan commercial not to be missed #
The headline is the article: Google plans data centre at old Finnish paper mill #
Too good: Carmina Burana, alternate lyrics #
To check out: new-school barbecue #
For future reference: HTML Syntax to Tell Google About Duplicate Pages, e.g. in the <head> put:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/link-to-main-page" />
Something to look into later: Mozilla Labs’ Bespin #
I’ve always been a little suspicious of Dubai: Goodbye Dubai (apparently I am not alone) #
Simple things like this make me want to dip my feet into the DSLR pool: DA Limited Lens Case #
Nice props for my WordPress Suicide plugin: I Commit Suicide Every Single Day (now that I’ve updated my blog to 2.7.1, I’ve really got to give my plugins a little polish) #
I dunno, I really think this should have been a “My Hobby” xkcd: Neutrality Schmeutrality #
I learn something every day: Datamoshing (an effect that only makes sense in the digital age) #
10 days and 12 strong beers…is that even possible? Strong Beer Month 2009 #
No way: New nerd merit badge: Inbox Zero #
Oh McSweeney’s, so good sometimes: Secure Website Authentification Questions #
Like This American’s Life’s Giant Pool of Money story, but with pictures! The Crisis of Credit Visualized (via Andre) #
I find “bento” amazing and I hardly know what it is: An Online Bento Evolution #
Hell yeah!
Neat Polaroid experiments: Static Fields and Lightning Bugs (which I quite like) #
I could watch this for hours: Time lapse of snails #
Nice post illustrating the steps involved in letterpressing: the one where i try to explain how letterpress printing works though i am quite far from being an expert. #
Nice WordPress theme: IAMWW W2 DnD (as seen here: commandliners) #
Thing about WordPress I had no idea existed: Shortcode API #
To do tonight: John Darnielle of Mountain Goats fame “in conversation and song” hosted by Tobias Wolff as part of City Arts & Lectures series (I just got tickets) #
Quite possibly the coolest thing ever: Bacon Maple donut from Dynamo #
Man, I wish all my eggs looked as good as these: Egg Season Again! #
This looks completely captivating: Must Read After My Death #
Why do all the movie trailers look good to me tonight? Enlighten Up #
So beautiful: Crayons as hexagonal pixels #
Shepard Fairey and Mannie Garcia (of Obama poster fame/infamy) on Fresh Air with Terrie Gross #
To read later: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data (via Ivan) #
Bart Got a Room (more like: William H. Macy got a perm) #