Didn’t get off the interstate except for a tiny bit in a small town, Mitchellville, which, becuase of flooding, the main street was closed. Tried for lunch in the next town up- Altoona- and eventually got to a ribs place. It was hard going. Despite being Sunday, most cute, small places were flooded. Tried to [...]
We started heading into the plains today, from West Virginia to Illinois. West Virginia was unexpectedly beautiful- and then there’s this dread that things are going to get more boring. It’s not boring of course- just different. I have to get out of the car and the interstate and walk around more. I walked on [...]
Just checked the town I’m in – Hancock, Maryland- and I’m 5 minutes from 2 states, Pennsylvania by car (more like 2 minutes, but takes 3 minutes to get out of hotel, driveway), and West Virginia 5 minutes walking. While walking my sister’s dog, realized I could have actually been in West Virginia if I [...]
I took that without looking- drove in and out of a thunderstorm going South on 1 last Sunday around 3 PM. The air smelled like bad electrical wiring. Huge drops of rain that flew at you horizontally. I kept thinking that it was desert weather, not coastal. I got about 7 voicemails, and called back [...]
Before starting a geeky vortex of work, thought I’d remark on Top Chef.
After quitting my job, I watched far too much of it- precisely, almost all of Season 3 and Season 4 back to back. Here are my thoughts.
1. Stephanie has the same smile as my friend’s wife Lisa. It’s like they’re separated at birth.
2. [...]
I walked along the ridge between Tennessee Valley and Mount Tamalpais last Saturday, after a barbecue in Mill Valley. I was in a short-sleeve shirt and was completely chilled afterwards. The wind from the coast- damp fog speeding along, comes over that ridge and sweeps down into the Bay. I’ve been on a boat right [...]
Ah, very cool. Created from here:
Get your NSID from Flickr (view source on a photo page, search for “nsid”)
Paste it into here,
It will generate all of your tags, then it submits it to another site that generates the tagCloud.
Neat!
Inspired by Top Chef I’ve changed some of the ways I cook. Like, I stop reheating things from Trader Joe’s. I made this dish that had my book club drop-jawed that I had made it, and hadn’t… brought something from Trader Joe’s. We have a rule that you can only bring food mentioned in the [...]
The reality of living in North Beach: noisy parrots. They swoop by the place where I work, sitting next to my balcony, and make a horrendous clatter. They’re really noisy. I mean, really noisy. But when you’re hiking up a long winding staircase to the top of Russian HIll, you’ll turn and suddenly confront a [...]
VBS.org made a video blog called “Toxic Garbage Island.” It’s about a Texas-sized island of trash in the North Pacific Ocean, in the “gyre”- a confluence of currents swirling above Hawaii. Super important, tragic issue dealt with by well-intentioned if inept set of video bloggers. Some lessons learned:
1. Presentation is Important
They say “fucking,” a lot. [...]
my brain is in molasses today. Can I just tweet all day?
finding fresh tarragon in Carmel was impossible. # #of clerks (out of 5) who could ID tarragon: 0. So bought the plant at nursery. $3.99.
There was a time that biking down Columbus used to seriously cause anxiety attacks. Now it's almost boring. Weird.
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