Archive for October, 2004
Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Kasha Varnishkes
3 Tbs (45 ml) butter or chicken fat 1-2 onions, thinly sliced 2 cups (500 ml) chicken stock or water 1 cup (250 ml) roasted buckwheat* 6 oz (175 g) bow-tie pasta (farfel), cooked according to package directions and drained Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
TeeVee
Sex in the City? Sopranos? Six Feet Under? An undoubtedly fine and alliterative body of work for HBO. But their best effort, a ground breaking tale of small things and plastic, is now available on DVD. Get your copy of Fraggle Rock today.
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Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Reality is morphing around me
Last weekend the kids and I took a little road trip. On the way back while they were sleeping I listened to Graceland in it’s entirey, as I had many times before. As I was listening, I was writing a blog entry in my head, a nice flashback piece about how it was the first [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
work
It’s been a while since I’ve so thoroughly blown off a day of work. Apart from answering a few emails, nothing constructive happened today. But if you have any questions about modding the xbox I might be able to help you. Or maybe you would like a review of the Gush IM/RSS client. This is [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
Traffic Sucks
This town needs a “I don’t give a crap about the interstate I just want to get to the other side of it” road.
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
1 step forward, 2 steps back
We now have a shed in the back yard, and the lumber for the new gate. The shed took 5 times as long to set up as I thought, and is quite a bit shorter than anticipated. Still, it was fun to put up and will give us some much needed storage. Of course, it [...]
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Friday, October 15th, 2004
Meme!
Finally a meme I can get behind. I’m not sure how many more web tests I can take. Next up, “Which breed of European Catfish are you?” Name a CD you own that no one else on your friends list does. Probably 10 or 20 Prince CD’s I have. :) But I’ll go with the [...]
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
Mirror
I passed in front of an ambulance today while walking to work. On the front of the hood it said “AMBULANCE” in reverse lettering (like this) that would read correctly in your rear view mirror. “Cool idea”, I thought. Then I began to wonder about the point. A loud siren is blaring behind you. There [...]
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
bread
Of all the fruit and vegetable flavored breads, pumpkin is the finest.