February 2012
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Moosewood Pasta with Chickpeas
As of late, I have not been using cookbooks that much. Part of that is I haven’t been cooking as much, and the other part is that one of my favorite sites has been posting a lot of simple healthy (and vegetarian) recipes in the last couple months. One of my new year’s resolutions is to bring my lunch more (or at least avoid sandwich shops), so when I tired of searching the web for...
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Black Bean and Tomato Quinoa | Serious Eats :... →
In contention against this quinoa dish for my lunch later this week. (love the latter website, more, though. Far less pretentious).
January 2012
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NPR's Top 5 Jazz Vocal Performances Of 2011 (aka,... →
Can I just say how happy it makes me that there’s a Brown on this list?? It’s this guy. And he’s amazing. (I guess Norah Jones is a brown, too — I never thought about that — we’re 40% of this list!).
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“If I hear a politician use the term ‘paying your fair share’ one more time, I’m...”
– Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1% - Bloomberg
WTF Monica Seles?!?
I’ve felt bad for her because of the stabbing in the 90s which was so traumatic, but she had a solid comeback, and I’ve often wondered where she was now. This was a totally weird mention,...
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The Year That Was And What Will Be
So 2011 was a strange year. It was a year that I was simultaneously selfish and swept up in others’ lives. I think for 2012, I will try to be less selfish, but I will also not allow others to dictate my existence. This will be difficult, as I love the path of least resistance. It’s so wide and smooth, and well taken. But, I think with some maturity, I make my own road.
The theme...
December 2011
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“Santa Enterprises is not a goddamn distribution company. It’s an information...”
– The Science Creative Quarterly » SANTA BREAKS SILENCE TO DISPUTE RIDICULOUS CLAIMS BY SCIENTISTS THAT HE DOESN’T EXIST This is why I LOVE this blog!
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November 2011
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When His Mistress Is Your Wife
This blog is amazing! From just this post (click on “Read More” below):
Can you feel the irony in the scene? The Chamberlain is duped by the Duke but what’s sad is that he doesn’t appear to even recognize his wife’s naked body, which speaks to so many problems about their relationship. Alas, that’s how thing were in the 14th century.
wtfarthistory:
Today’s painting by...
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WatchWoody Allen doc on PBS!
I know it’s gravely hypocritical of me, but where Roman Polanski squicks me out (I can’t see any of his newer films), Woody Allen doesn’t bother me. I love his more recent films. I don’t love him so much (as you can see in the doc), but I like the movie version of himself — especially Owen Wilson in MiP, one of my favorite films of this...
September 2011
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I am getting a haircut today. Which do you like?
Bobbish
Mad Mennish
Super Short
Like this, but maybe edgier?
My favoritest, but can I pull it off?
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“leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change...”
– Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell
“Heart leaking something so strong, they can smell it in the street.” - Now that is going on my life goals list.
Marty McConnell is out of NY. Watch the poem in action.
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SILS-ETD: Item 1901/187 →
Someone’s master’s thesis on bibliokleptomania! To read.
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Draw a Stickman →
Surprisingly fun 3 minutes!
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Today
So this afternoon, a wonderful friend offered me a ride on the back of her scooter down to the “cool” part of town to go on a vintage shopping tour. As we drove over the bridge, I spied a guy I had dated about 2 years or so ago. He is a bit heavier and definitely lost a lot of hair. He is the only honest-to-god through-and-through jerk I’ve ever gone out with. So, I felt a...
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Cookus Interruptus - How to Cook French Lentils... →
And now a non Indian lentil dish. (Everyone recommends the French lentils in cooking, but no one ever recommends a French lentil recipe. This seems to be it!)
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Orangette: Consolation prize →
Green Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk and Warm Spices
To make this week. Mmmmm, ghee!
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Bree's Lentil-Tomato Soup From Cooking Light... →
Ok. I am seriously cooking this weekend. I cannot survive on pita chips and turkey sandwiches any longer.
Update: This came out ok. I used a boxed chicken broth that gave no indication of its low sodiumness, but it was definitely not salty enough. I had to add a lot in. I think with a little doctoring, this could be pretty good.
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Sit Fit from ActiveForever.com →
To keep my tummy from getting bigger! I’ve definitely gained weight since starting my job. I have got to find my socks, so that I can run (I know I can buy cheapies from CVS, but it’s the principle of the thing!)
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Tortilla Salad Recipe - 101 Cookbooks →
To get back on the cooking bicycle.
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1. Enzyme Kinetics →
Things that are coming up in our meeting
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August 2011
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“I see you are learning one of the annoying lessons of the world: sometimes dim...”
– Anonymous
Don’t worry, I’ll be back to being positive in a few.
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Things that went through my head today:
1. Who out there in the universe actually likes Sun Chips?
They are always the last thing to go in the vending machine, and yet, there they are, the selection slightly changing from harvest (yuck) to wild cheddar (double yuck).
2. I used the Matlab function for cumulative trapezoid rule and giggled. Yes, I am 12 years old. (Google it!)
I also later had a serious conversation with an older...
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Watch“What it comes down to is accepting the fact that many ideas and many solutions that we provide to our clients may always, or sometimes, fail. The trick, I think, is to A) accept it and B) have the courage to accept it and move forward with what you believe in.” ~ Rei Inamoto There are alot more ruminations about fear of failure here. from this conference.
Most people’s messages...
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Free or nearly-free ways to make our home... →
So, I really need to unpack those moving boxes that have been in my house for 2 weeks…
(Seriously, I made an enormous lentil stew the other day with just a dinner spoon. I almost burned my hand. I’m ambitious under constrained circumstances. Too much freedom makes me lazy.)
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R: The Multinomial Distribution →
For future reference. Also, I suck at combinatorics.
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July 2011
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Histogram using gnuplot? - Stack Overflow →
Research on here resumes! Hope I won’t lose too many people, but hey, them’s are the breaks when you choose to embrace your inner genius (you call it dorkitude, I call it brilliance :) ).
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June 2011
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Things I did on my 3 day trip to DC
Went to the movies.
Rode in a Cadillac.
Passed by Negro Mountain (!).
Ate a Blizzard.
Drove through 3 states and the District of Columbia.
Visited Fallingwater — like a more conceptual, expensive, natural, beautiful version of my parents’ house.
Stayed at the nexus of 3 rivers.
Took Pittsburgh down — dudes can’t play dance music.
Drank a gross martini.
Drank an...
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“But within these harsh privations, there’s a stunning anomaly: a...”
– Inmates at San Quentin State Prison learn integrity through tennis - Tennis - SI.com
Not the most analytic or best written piece, but worth a read. Especially interesting that prisoners prefer SQ for the same reason anyone prefers living in the Bay area — the glut of overeducated underpaid...
“Remember what Mr. Holden always said in Science: Only in physics does gravity...”
– From A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
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“People with mild depression are relatively accurate when predicting future...”
– Optimism Bias: Human Brain May Be Hardwired for Hope - TIME
Man, all this time I should have been playing the ponies.
Also: this is depressing.
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CBC radio 3 — A Tribute to Sloan
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First Look Analysis of Deadly E. Coli in Germany →
An attempt at analyzing the sequence data of the most recent E. coli outbreak in Europe (the Spanish cucumber affair — true source still unknown).
Interesting how this stuff happens in a commercial environment. My old group would never have ponied up $5K for a piece of software; we would have written our own (and, admittedly, given it away for free). It’ll be an interesting...
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May 2011
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Cackling Out Loud.
lindsayrobertson:
“You’ll also be glad to know I have retained custody of the Captain’s hard-drinking gay friend, Max.”
From the delightful “I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled,” by Melinda Taub, on McSweeney’s. Every “Sound of Music” fan will appreciate it.