Omelette with homemade chevre

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)

My photo galleries are obsolete

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…

Weird dithering “bug” on Lenovo X200

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…

Hot goat (with homemade chevre!)

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.

Yellow undoor

And the new international spokesmodel for Sandwich Américain is…

…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.

The California Weed Experience

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…

Snowshoeing Shasta (in a blizzard!)

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…

Bell X-1 in the movie poster for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

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…

Public Domain Dilemmas

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…

A Prosthetic Suit for Stephen Hawking With Japanese Steel

Just another day on my way to work… by Michael Rea, currently on display at 101 California

The Art of Grand Theft Auto

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.

What’s behind the blue door?

One more photo from my walk to work today. This one a little more abstract and over-saturated.

Blasts from the past

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…

Taxpayer grievances

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.…

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Random Custom Fields

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…

Say hello to our new cheese “cave”

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…

Fairey v. AP v. Garcia v. Fair Use

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,…

Total cost of living in the city today = $374.25

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…

How to build a cheese press

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…