April 2009
79 posts
“But imagine a salad-like composition of raw vegetables with supporting garnishes...”
– What if Food Changed Mid-Meal? - The Atlantic Food Channel
WatchEEEEEeeeee!
Do I have Pig Flu? - Do I have Swine Flu? →
The demise of liveblogging
If nothing else, Twitter has made the beloved-by-bloggers art of live blogging an event (Sopranos finale! The SuperBowl! Inaguaration) somewhat obsolete. Why live blog something when Twittering — which you probably are already doing if you are the sort of person who would consider liveblogging — is so much easier?
AMERICURRY » Your guide to the world of Japanese... →
I very much enjoy the design of this website. And I very much would like some delicious Japanese curry now.
“Much of what we do online has obvious analogues in the past: E-mail and IM...”
– The reluctant Twitterer’s dilemma. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
One of my all time favorite SNL skits, in... →
“This all brings us to the new season of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”...”
– Law & Order: Criminal Intent - TV Series - Review - NYTimes.com (via hamjokes)
“In my experience when I was 8 or 10 or 12 years old, you know, we did take our...”
– Justice Stephen Breyerm as quoted in The Supreme Court takes failing to get it to a new level in a strip-search case. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
“Here’s the top of the list:
1. Seattle, WA
2. Minneapolis, MN
3. San...”
– Ritz Crackers: Seattle is America’s most fun city
Two thoughts:
1) New York is not less fun than San Jose. San Jose sucks.
2) Four of the top 10 are in California. Maybe just related to population, but interesting anyway.
My parents have turned my old bedroom in to a...
My mom sent me this email today:
Hi Laura, I emptied one drawer in the dresser Jessie’s old room. Now is your chance to fill it. I will try and get another drawer clean when I return from vacation. Love, Mom
Thanks for giving me an ENTIRE drawer, Mom. You and Dad sure you don’t need it for all the guests that are sure to come, now that you have TWO guest rooms?
Grumblesaurus.
Inappropriate Attire at Dolores Park - SFist: San... →
Almost as bad as the man in the neon green banana hammock who was playing with those hippie sticks that you toss back and forth (what are those called, anyway?).
It’s also possible that Zena is the older sister of the lovely Kara, one of my best pals eva. Still, I think she’s right. Cuz I know so much about hospital safety and bacteria.
Those idiots in the NYT have no idea what they are...
From the Letters page:
To the Editor:
Hand washing, hand washing, hand washing! As a nursing student at the University of California, San Francisco, I have had this mantra drilled into my head since my first week of training. Hospital-acquired infections of C. difficile are indeed preventable. One key to the prevention of infection lies in meticulous hand washing with antibacterial soap and...
Which is more nerve-wracking: Final Jeopardy! or facing the Socratic Method at the Law School?
Pawson: “The worst thing that could happen on TV is that I embarrass myself in front of 12 million people. In law school, I could get a withering comment and stare from Professor Helmholz. I’m not sure there’s anything that compares to that.”
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Dan Pawson, JD’06, began a nine-game winning...
National Karaoke Week! →
National Karaoke Week starts today. In case you didn’t know.
Somewhere between Chicago and San Francisco, I lost my desire to go out on week nights. In Chicago, we’d be out two or three times during the week, at Inner Town, Happy Village, Goldstar (swoon) or the Violet Hour. But in San Francisco, not so much. I think partially it’s that I work a lot more here, and partially that my friends are scattered across the city, so it’s more...
“Bacon is the Anna Nicole Smith of foods—hedonistic, superficial, and willfully...”
– fuckyeahcilantro, on why cilantro is better than bacon. I myself side with the cilnatrans, but pork belly, on the other hand… well, if it’s pork belly, I’ll have to be Switzerland in this hipster food war. (via ernie)
“Am drunk, getting
on
Plane. I MISS YOU”
– Best text ever from boyfriend. I’m pretty enamored with him.
“Still, I knew this decision was going to be made now or never, so I started...”
– Should I Opt for Circumcision? - TIME
More on the musical kick
I can’t help it. Between the boyfriend who secretly (or not so secretly) knows all the words to Les Mis, and that damn British lady from Britain’s Got Talent, it’s everywhere! Honestly, it’s not so bad.
we are on a musical kick lately
me: the pavement shines like silllverrrrr
Laura: ON MY OWWWWWNNNNN
me: EVERY DAY I'M LEARNINNNNNN
Laura: in the darkneeessssss
“Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we? On Saturday night she stood on the stage in...”
– It wasn’t singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain’s Got Talent so much as our reaction to her - The Guardian
Exciting day at Ning HQ
In addition to posts on Tech Crunch, Mashable, Cnet and Silicon Valley Insider, Gina was also a guest on CNBC’s Power Lunch.
Dress Codes - How to Look Like a Grown-Up While... →
I was all excited to read this article, as I’m constantly complaining about how hard it is to commute by bike AND look cute*. Except when I went to read the article, they only talk about men’s fashion. Are women not supposed to commute by bike, too? A dissapointment, NYT, a dissapointment. The last sentence of the piece is “In short, you quickly understand why the Dutch don’t...
Today April 15th at the Rainbow - m4w →
See post below about Rainbow Grocery. Perfect.
Made a recipe tonight for Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies. You may have guessed from the title — the cookies had mesquite flour in them. There are many reasons why it’s lovely to live in San Francisco, but one of them is that I’m about eight blocks away from Rainbow Grocery, where Heidi Swanson seems to buy the bulk of her odd and overly healthy ingredients.
Like mesquite flour.
The...
Sexting is Stupid →
lauraglu:
Thanks @laurao!
That’s what I’m here for. To spread the gospal of NO SEXTING.
My credit card company is trying to kill me. And/or cost me hundreds of dollars in taxes I’ll need to pay. GAH!
