Archive for the tag "food"

OMG, the Mountain View Edith Frost makes the papers again! I wonder if she can sing? I sure don't cook. I mean, I could but I don't.

This salad gets its pleasant crunch from ramen noodles, almonds and sesame seeds. "It's my most asked-for recipe," says Edith Frost from Mountain View, California. "An adaptable main dish, it works well with chicken or turkey, too."

• I got another donation and again the tag-cloud widget didn’t work; the table was blank in PHPMyAdmin. Reinstalled plugin, hope it’s fixed. #
• I just had my first In-N-Out burger! YUM. http://www.in-n-out.com #

• Now I’m reading Metamorphosis by the REAL Kafka. Seems a lot easier to read than it did last time — but I was only like 12 years old! Heh. #
• The Kindle Cake (via The Book of Kindle)

• echochrome demo for PSP
• @Phineas: Go Threadless! #
• Crockpottin’ it up! One cut-up chicken and a pile of veggies. I’ve never done this before, I hope I don’t burn the house down. #

• ROCKSTAR!! One of the developers of the Google Talk chatback gadget thingy just stopped in to say hi. Checking in with the early adopters. #
• FYI I’m in the middle of “Kafka on the Shore” by Haruki Murakami, and loving it. Always a pleasure to read his stuff. #
• Wil took me out for MEXICAN food. MMMMMmmmm. #

• I’m stealing Pajo’s shopping cart like a thief in the night! He won’t care, he stole it from Drag City anyway. And it’s for the Common Good. #
• GAAKKK!! I swallowed a hair in my food and just about hurled. Don’t know if it was *my* hair. Don’t want to know. #
• My “E-Store” is live! It’s a little ugly, I need nicer icons. But it works. Buy some stuff! http://edithfrost.com/store/ #

• Adamo - Aerialists Andrew Adams & Erika Gilfether
• Eeeeee!!! Some people w/ Dec. 13th Kindle orders (like me) are seeing their status change today to “shipping soon”. Refreshing like mad… #
• Why do I always have to “killall Dock”? #
• I just got a potato chip in the shape of Illinois. Oops, I ate it… no selling it on eBay! #
• Dad: “Oh, don’t worry about it. They may ship but then again they may run out. I don’t know why you can’t just show the patience I did.” HA! #
• SHIPPING SOON! SHIPPING SOON!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG #

• Eating Thai and watching TiVo’ed Amazing Race. It’s not the same without the family of goths. #

• The Well-Dressed Kindle: Knitting a Slipcover for your Kindle
• How to prevent iPhone audio interference in speakers
• I ate very healthy today. I want candy. Oh well. #

• @djearlybird: Whatchoo talkin’ bout, did you do one too? OH THAT. That’s nothin’!! Not even a blip on my annoyance radar. Not what I mean. #
• @djearlybird: p.s. I will only slander nameless faceless tech-information bloggers, not friends. Did you use a pie chart? I don’t think so. #
• Trying Amazon Subscribe & Save, a bulk grocery delivery thing. Box of Luna bars every 3 months for $12. http://amazon.com/subscribeandsave #
• R.I.P. Lydia Mendoza - Tejano pioneer
• Kindle Kozy
• Happy New Year y’all!! Turn on the TV, Ch 4 is filming New Years live at Teatro Zinzanni. Wil’s in the band. I’m TiVo’ing. #

• If I change you from a Flickr friend to a contact, don’t take it personally. I just don’t want your boring-ass pics to show in my feed. :-P #
• “The Great Divide” by Perio. Album of the year! http://www.myspace.com/periomusic #
• Fridgewatcher (via Imponderables)
• Wondermark #366: In which Mark faces Denial
• Bears in ill-fitting hats

• Last night we watched “Knocked Up” due to the Freaks & Geeks connection… not my cuppa tea at all. Interminable. I’d rather see Booty Call. #
• Amazon is showing me man-hands. :-( http://tinyurl.com/2fn4u3 #
• Oh jeez. I opened an Amazon package thinking it was the book light I’d ordered. But it’s something I wasn’t supposed to see yet! Rewrapped. #
• Official Google Blog: Better Flight Stats Results
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• Handmade Kindle case designed to look like a book
• EVERY time I pick up food from our local Italian place there’s this Ned Flanders lookalike sitting alone at the bar. Smiling. Creeps me out. #

• OK I guess Twitter’s back. Today’s been a little more eventful than I bargained for, but it all worked out. Just had Jodie’s patti-melts. #
• Last night we saw an ep. of Inspector Lynley feat. Jenny Agutter, star of Logan’s Run (a fave of mine). She’s come a long way since Lastday! #
• Today’s nap, I “got up” like five times before I really woke up! Thought I had sheets wrapped around my head and there was a cat in the room #
• I worry too much. Such a worrier. #

• Twitterrific is sending things without me hitting the fricken return key! I was SAYING I love Junior Mints but they give me a stomache-ache. #
• @ijustine: Junior Mints are covered in bug juice y’know… http://tinyurl.com/nyton I like to nibble around the edges, then smoosh. #
• Cortical Spreading Depression… a brain thing, related to migraine auras / scintillating scotoma. Google it… http://tinyurl.com/34cl4y #
• From hot out herre - a rare meme: > 1) go to wikipedia and click random article. that is your band’s name. > 2) click random article again; that is your album name. > 3) click random article 15 more times (or however many times seems >     appropriate for your band); those are the tracks on your album. I got the following: 1) Emiliano Moretti 2) Kevin O’Neill (rugby player) 3) Paul Schütze; Richard B. Hays; Euphemia Elphinstone; Nelson; Gennaker; Cynosarges; Shepton High School; Piura (disambiguation); Collie Power Station, Western Australia; Saga, Kōchi; Sugar crust; Cold Wars (gaming); Filmation’s Ghostbusters #
• Overheard on Kindle Korner: “I am naming my kindle Safira, the blue dragon from the book Eragon.” #
• “My Kindle is Bartimaeus, the 2000-year-old djinn from the Amulet of Samarkand.” #

• When I can’t sleep, I get angry at the world. It’s all your fault. #
• Kindlelust is messing up my life. Starting a list of books I want even though I have no Kindle. I’m not even in line for one! Need therapy. #
• I’m freezing, wtf should I eat? Wish we had someplace like the Soupbox here. http://www.thesoupbox.com/ Yeah yeah, Chicago blah blah blah. #
• Confessed to Wil that his present was here taunting me and I wanted to give it to him already. He’s all… “oh well, too bad for you!” Heh. #
• Listening to Steve Albini on Sound of Young America. Mentions nothing about how I turned his career around with all the referrals! Hee. j/k #
• (Well, I did find him those Jud Jud MP3s, which he really really wanted, so they’ll never take that away from me!) http://tinyurl.com/4lmjt #
• Cambodian Rocks MP3s for free on WFMU! Good shit. http://tinyurl.com/2mvzqa #