A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
Today we discovered the greatest cookbook ever published. The Bacon Cookbook. I shit you not. This is a cookbook’s entire focus is bacon. Bacon! Pancetta. Salt pork. Guanciale. Lard fumé. Pork belly. Bacon! Every recipe involves bacon. From bacon-based appetizers, stews with bacon, bacon entrees, clear through to bacon-wrapped desserts. I cannot wait to try […]
An old photo but recently featured on AwesomeOff.com in their Brewing Monks vs. Gurdjieff match-up. (Photo on Flickr.)
Taking a cue from Mike: 2008 Powered by Goodreads.com …minus a few children’s books.
A little late in posting (compared to last year) but worth posting for the full disclosure aspect of it all. (Plus Mike said he wanted to see them.) As before, they’re like New Year’s Resolutions except measurable and realistic &c. and not vague. It’s the vagueness that’s cause for so much failure and abandonment, I […]
Photo by Ken Signorello (Green Destiny on Flickr).
Six months ago, the F_D crew took the plunge and entered the realm of DSLR photography. We have certainly had no regrets. The Canon XTi is a great camera that produces some great pictures; certainly it has raised the bar over our older SD630 1. This is not (of course) to suggest that the camera […]
(Original posted on Flickr; credit to victoriabernal.)
An anagrammatic haiku review of Michael Bay’s film, Transformers: truly a hard-on for these U.S. armed forces and for broken glass →becomes→ try to suck boner for nose-gas. half of us ran. arms heralded red.
I get the feeling that I should really be titling this post “The Trials and Tribulations of Automating My Linkdumps”. But now that I’ve set the tone… For those unfamiliar with Del.icio.us 1, it’s a social bookmarking app (and a Yahoo! property) that allows you to keep your bookmarks all online, in one place, and […]
Not pictured: all those damn tomatoes. Also: plenty more where that came from. Original photo on Flickr.