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They're algorithms.Pattern recognition algorithms can know things about you before you do. Tracking your daily routine: where you go, what websites you access and when you access them, your purchasing habits, your eating patterns, your social engagements, your work habits, etc., which thankfully are all in disparate and disconnected databases, if they're tracked at all, could be unified and

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Knowledge is a journey, and many bright people tire and quit the journey after they have advanced past provincial jealousies but before recovering their receptiveness from vain and hypocritical liberals. That is what leaves people stranded in thoughtful conservatism. They become so contradictarian, they actually come to oppose their own natural will to empathy, trapped in the role of devil's

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This blog entry is written from my phone. The ever-increasing laziness or convenience-provided zeitgeist of modern technology is biting me. Hand grip on my shoulder, tearing the sinews like Beowulf on Grendel. I'm Grendel, that pathetic piece of fuck. You can make music with your phone. This epiphany is probably an old dim incandescent gnat covered lemon to you, but to me it's an epiphany.

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Or long week of ass... This was the first full week without my closest co-worker, Tom. Tom left the company for to pursue an amazing opportunity for himself and his own company. I'm missing him big time. He was the one person there who was fluent in my language, and I was the one person who was fluent in his. Now it's all on me to teach others our dream. The work has begun. Also today I

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I've just begun reading Dean Young's recent book on poetry, The Art of Recklessness, and I can already say that I have found a new favorite book. It was by page 15 that I felt my eyes swell and a deep sigh or relief pour out of me as I realized how he had killed me, and how wrong he was. HE being that wretched, wretchedly serious "poet" and creative writing professor at WVU: J.H. In the fall

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I've come up with what may be an entirely new family of cocktails!So, you know that there are families of cocktails, like something/vermouth/bitters... like gin/vermouth/bitters, vodka/vermouth/bitters, whiskey/vermouth/bitters. And then there's... well anyway that's one. I call it a family.So, here we go:2 oz Gin.75 oz Brandy.25 oz Falernum.25 oz Liqueur that complements the brandyIt seems

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I think I'm in love again.Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an API that you can use to interface w/a suite of products including the mind-altering EC2 service, which allows you to boot up virtual boxes in the Amazon cloud infrastructure for, all things considered, very reasonable rates. I've just written my first AWS Python script, and I've booted my first EC2 image. It will be my always-on mail

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Inclination is a dirty word in our coach's circle right now. But I am finally beginning to understand the principle in a way that I can vocalize.Who here would deny that we learn every time we coach? Who here is the expert? I'm not. I'm constantly trying to understand the turn, the weight shift, the dance with gravity. Who here stands around during practice? No coach stands around. Drew

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Altruism. Forgiveness. Motives.Somehow these concepts kept showing up today, whether by choice or coincidence. I woke up this morning on the couch, fully clothed, except for my shoes. I had fallen asleep after three trials of a new (to me) cocktail called Sappho, and a review of season 1 of Archer, which I just got in the mail. There were many dishes to be washed, so I got right to work.

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"Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free to be more like the man you were made to be." - Mumford & Sons (Sigh No More)I am utterly bewildered that a man of only 21 years could consider love with such maturity. That's about how old Marcus Mumford was when Mumford & Sons recorded Sigh No More. I'm assuming he wrote it. I'm just amazed at his perspective. Of

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What is the word for backwards-looking? I love how the word brûler means to burn, and in the aforementioned Jacques Brel song, Ne Me Quitte Pas, he uses the phrase "des terres brûlées". French poetry in the time of end rhyme must've been really something. I need to learn more. These lyrics...Et quand vient le soirPour qu'un ciel flamboieLe rouge et le noirNe s'épousent-ils pas!?

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That weird b.o. & colored pencil shavings smell is trapped in the Pompadou, just like in the Getty. It was right in the entrance in the Getty, but in the Pompadou it's at the entrance to Gallery 1. Blegh.After about four hours of walking, the iconic red-flecked exoskeleton of the Centre Georges Pompidou finally peeked around the corner! I could spend all week here! And I just might.I was

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Aujourd'hui, nous avons dimanche.Most places were closed, mais pas de la Tour Eiffel. J'ai dormi dans l'avion, alors que j'avais faim. So, j'ai d'abord pris le déjeuner, puis je suis allé à la Tour Eiffel.My delightful concierge, Frederique, recommended little Italian place around the corner for lunch, and as instructed by my friend Holdly, I did order the Platte du Jour, and it was Boeuf

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I really can't wait for this movie to come out, but here's the rub... Chances are it's not yet showing in your town, and it's definitely not in my town, BUT it was released in 8 American cities Dec. 3rd, and it WILL be released in two more cities on Dec. 10th... AND WE'RE ONE OF THEM! Oh yeah, the rub? Well, I'm leaving town on Saturday, but I think I might still be able to squeeze in a movie

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Don't quit me! Don't quit me.Je creuserai la terre jusqu'après ma mortpour couvrir ton corps d'or et de lumière.I'd scour the earth unto my deathto cover your body in gold and light.The words are so intense, and Jacques Brel sings them with such complete devotion, the result is really a masterpiece.The full lyrics here: http://frmusique.ru/texts/b/brel_jacques/nemequittepas.htmIt took me a

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2 oz. Applejack3/4 oz. Campari1/4 oz. Crème de ViolettePour over ice, stir well, strain into a cocktail glass.Applejack is one of the earliest American distillates. It dates back to the late 17th century, predating Bourbon. It's apple brandy, although the 100% apple brandy version is only sold in small quantities. The type I am using is a blend of 35% brandy and 65% neutral spirit (vodka).

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I've been up since about 9:30 yesterday working, and yesterday I woke up so late because I had been up until 4 that morning, and so it's been all week. I was just writing the description field for an RPM spec file and drifted off... I snapped to and found this dream-induced flotsam floating in the field:"This is the base install for APM IEM port configuration. It is composed primarily of

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Gloria. Laura Branigan. Is there any song that captures the loss of innocence in America quite like Gloria? You may think it happened long before that, like after the Cuban Missle Crisis, or after WWII, or after WWI, or after the dark ages (how old are you?), but I submit that there was a certain self awareness missing from life before mass communication really exploded, and we can probably

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Elizabeth's HighballOn broken ice...3-4 shakes Fee's rhubarb bittersFresh lemon juice2 oz Square One Botanical1/4 oz (a dash) of Luxardo MaraschinoFill with seltzerStir wellGarnish with a lemon peel first heated w/a lighter to bring out the oils, and then wiped around the rimServe in a tall, slender glass.Didn't try some fresh mint in there, but it would look nice... might taste good too.The

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This is just a braindump of questions and hypotheses that have probably already been examined...Do animals that are more independent when they are young (i.e. less dependent on others) become less social as they age? Are animals that are more dependent in youth remain social in life? Where does a need for society come from? The need for social interaction drives civil behavior, which needs to

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In my journey into the world of Szechuan cuisine, there is one ingredient that I have until now been unable to find, and is absolutely essential for producing the Real Deal, and that is... The Facing Heaven Pepper.I've wandered through dozens of Asian and international food stores in St. Louis and Los Angeles, calling "Nǐ yǒu cháo tiān jiāo ma?" and I've scoured the web for leads, but the one

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I want to hurt you because i love you.If i want to eat your arm, it's because i love you.You make me want to pukeand kiss your sweet face.

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Equal parts Square One Botanical and Lillet. Add about 3-4 dashes of Angostura bitters. This is possibly a bit TOO smooth. Goes down like water. I recommend the following modifier:Healthy dose of green Chartreuse, and all of its "130 Alpine herbs".I haven't tried it yet, because I don't have any Chartreuse, but I have a feeling it's right on the money.

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About two weeks ago I received my copy of Gaz Regan's new book, The Bartender's Gin Compendium. I've been on a huge gin kick ever since my friend Adam introduced me to the Martinez. In the early pages of the book, Mr. Regan describes a drink common to the latter half of the 1800s called the Gin Cocktail. He sketches out a recipe of gin, simple syrup, bitters, and "perhaps a little curaçao or

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If you're like me you have a very small workshop and therefore must be extremely discriminate about what large tools you fill it with. I have finally developed a fairly reliable process for ripping logs found in neighbors' yards after they fell a tree for whatever reason using only one major power tool: the bandsaw.You need:14" bandsaw w/6" riser block (Or bigger. I use a Powermatic PWBS-14CS.

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From the Online Etymology Dictionary:Irish c.1200, Irisce, from stem of O.E. Iras "inhabitant of Ireland," from O.N. irar, ult. from O.Ir. Eriu (acc. Eirinn, Erinn) "Erin," which is from O.Celt. *Iveriu (acc. *Iverionem, abl. *Iverione), perhaps meaning "good land." Meaning "temper, passion" is 1834, Amer.Eng. (first attested in writings of Davy Crockett), from the legendary pugnacity of Irish

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You have to click on the image to actually be able to read it.Yes, I'm a dreamer, but I mean c'mon, hah!? Come on! You gotta rally behind the Mounties when such an unprecedented opportunity presents itself! Oh yeah, Pittsburgh over Syracuse is almost ridiculous, but Pitt did beat Syracuse earlier this season, and dude, a Backyard Brawl for the Championship? Holy shit!Damian! Hah!? Let's see

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I've recently plunged myself into the world of cocktails. Here is my favorite way to mix a Martinez, the sweeter, darker ancestor of both the Martini and the Manhattan:1.5 oz sweet vermouth (been using Cinzano)1.5 oz Old Tom gin (been using Hayman's).25 oz Maraschino (been using Luxardo)1 Maraschino cherrydash of Regan's Orange BittersI like them sweet and on the rocks, so... Pour the vermouth

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Get it? :D

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One Mississippi... Two Mississippi... "It took two seconds." WRONG!Zero Mississippi... One Mississippi... "It took a just over one second." CORRECT!

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This is going to seem like a silly detail, but I was just reading an article about a new program at Google that will pay anyone who finds a previously unknown security vulnerability in Chrome $500."The standard payment for eligible bugs will be $500, with a special — and comical — reward of $1337 for 'particularly severe or particularly clever' vulnerabilities."Now there's the kicker. There's

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Seems like if the big bang was not the first big bang, and it's a cyclical event, then black holes may become unstable once they run out of matter to consume. Once all black holes have consumed their galaxies, and all the available ISM, and each other, and there is just one, and it runs out of all matter to consume, all gravity is consolidated, all EVERYTHING is consolidated, then a new reaction

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"Well Rebecca, get your basket, let's go down to the wood,You might not pick any berries but you'll come back feeling good." (Fiery Furnaces)The Fiery Furnaces are going to be here on Saturday. 'Nuff said.My boss has an agenda incongruent w/my own. Sixty hours gets me fifteen minutes of face-to-face on the phone, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't really listen to me then, except to determine how to

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I actually went to Home Depot today just to get two fully loaded hot dogs and a Diet Coke. The hilarity of that is just now setting in. At the time it seemed like a perfectly normal thing to do. I was really craving one of those hot dogs, so I went to Home Depot for lunch. Yep, yep.I think I'm addicted. I could eat two more right now. The combination of that celery salt and the hot and sour

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Put this on loop, lie down, and let your brain melt right out your ear...

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I've been working on it for about a week now. I think it's one of my best ever for three reasons: First, it tastes like nothing else, and it tastes wonderful. Second, it's impossible to not get right. Third, it's versatile.Heat three to four to five tablespoons of peanut oil in a sauté pan over medium to low heat.Add a good, healthy portion (like say three forkfuls) of Tianjin preserved

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How about more grammar?

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"Well, you see, Johnny, we have a two-party system.""Well what's that?""Well, that's where you have one party write legislation, and the other party tries to sabotage it.""Huh.""Yeah.""That sounds like a game.""Well, I guess it is a kind of game.""But what if there's something really bad gonna happen, like an asteroid's gonna hit us or something?""Well, then one party will try to write

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Did you know that Waits has released a live album from his Glitter and Doom tour? There's nothing from St. Louis on there - THAT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME CONCERT! - but Get Behind the Mule is on there, and the live version of that alone is worth the price of the album, I think.Remember when we all sang Innocent When You Dream during the encore? That was awesome.

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I should have written this a long time ago. If you've never seen the movie Revolutionary Road, I recommend you see it.I'm not sure how I derive any pleasure in watching such devastation unfold. I've watched it several times, and every time I feel like my soul is being slowly ripped in half, right down the middle. It's excruciating. It makes me sick. However, the acting is incomparable. The sense

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"I feel about as useless as a mom's degree." - Kenneth ParcellHa!

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Naivete is innocence that has not yet been lost

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How long before someone just starts printing T-shirts with Karl Benjamin paintings? It seems appropriate given recent trends toward mid-century modern aesthetics. Hard Edge Tees.

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Have you ever really thought about the words of Yankee Doodle? Their meaning seemed kind of pointless to me, until I looked it up in Wikipedia, the greatest online reference ever...Turns out Yankee Doodle was originally a song intended to jeer Americans. At the time, doodle was another word for fool, and macaroni was an avant-garde wig style. So, in effect, the first verse is saying that

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Where I work, we like everything to be in a package. It allows for unattended and repeatable installations, dependencies, and easy removal. You also get to ensure that the software is installed in the correct location on your servers, rather than whatever ridiculous location the vendor thought should be used. RPM is our package format of choice.If we need to install a new piece of software

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OMG, he looks exactly like Wilford Brimley.

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When I was in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, Sean and I went to the Art Center College of Design, where Magda is studying, and toured the student exhibits. I had noticed a trend in the creative use of plywood and cardboard for interesting furniture before, but it didn't really sink in until I saw it being used there.Wood is an expensive commodity, but plywood is cheap. Also, plywood has the

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Sometimes when I'm doing research on the web, I want to make notes right on the screen about what I'm looking at, and have them stay with that page, so that they appear when I come back to it.I've looked around and the only addons I could find that do something like that are ones that you have to sign up w/an online service to do, and they keep your stuff so you can share it with others. But I

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Yeah, I know that after the last posting this is going to be like throwing it into reverse while doing 80 down the freeway, but...Did you know there is such a term as lolcat? YES! It's so funny!Just go to Google images and search for "lolcat".What is it that makes cats so funny? Is it because they're so serious, yet so cute?

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Best. Concert. Ever.Yes, that is a serious statement. Imagine: 5 minutes before the curtain goes up, and I am actually feeling butterflies in MY stomach. I look at my brother, "Sean, I can't believe this, but I'm actually feeling butterflies in my stomach. That's never happened before." Sean grinned, "You should probably bring those expectations down a notch."Moments later, the curtain

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An interesting thought just occurred to me as I was reading Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel The Forever War: post-apocalyptic zombie movies, which are so much fun to watch, are really a form of FANTASY, I think.In The Forever War, the future is a mess. Severe population issues, rationing, overwhelming crime and unemployment, helplessness, desperation - all things that are not fun to think about.

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This will sound weird, but...To two handfuls of jasmine rice boiling in a little too much water, adda generous (~3 tablespoons) helping of fish saucesome (~1 tablespoon) soy sauce1 bag of cooked salad shrimpa decent amount (1/4 cup) of shredded sichuan preserved vegetable~3-4 chopped birdseye peppers (chopped loosely, with seeds)The sichuan preserved vegetable and the sauces will provide enough

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After discovering this man's work on the Wikipedia page for the word nicker, it occurred to me that his work would form an intensely rich and complex foundation for stained glass window designs.Just google "arthur rackham", and look at the images that pop up.You can even ignore the actual subject matter, and just focus on compositional aspects, like pallete and spatial organization.

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Ripped that headline right from the FASEB Journal. Link to study here, link to article in NYT here.Basically, according to the study, consuming fatty foods negatively rapidly affects your short-term memory and energy levels SIGNIFICANTLY.The conclusion of the study is that "optimization of nutrition to maximize the efficiency of mitochondrial ATP production could improve energetics in athletes

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This is the current mix I use for running. It's 26 minutes, 48 seconds, and I never get all the way through Black Cat (only run for about 20 minutes - 2 miles... for now).01 - Sweet Spots (The Fiery Furnaces - EP)02 - Bodysnatchers (Radiohead - In Rainbows)03 - Cuddle Fuddle (Passion Pit - Chunk of Change)04 - Black Cat (Ladytron - Velocifero)This is a good mix.

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NPIV is a technology standard for fiber channel that allows you to assign multiple initiators (OS instances) to a single HBA port. Each initiator can have its own unique WWPN.The idea seems to be that NPIV allows you to access the HBA directly from the OS, instead of through a virtualized device provided by a hypervisor. I think it essentially offloads the port arbitration to the HBA itself.

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Brett Molony has this picture of his wife on his desk that looks like a promo shot for an attorney's office. She's in her business suit in front of a splotchy brown background, smiling pragmatically. There is no sexiness or fun to it. It's very traditional.What would make me want a portrait like that on my desk? I think the charm would have to be in the endearing fact that it was made for me.

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I just found out here that The Fiery Furnaces just played in Chicago on both the 10th and 11th. I can't believe this. I have been watching their website like a hawk for months for tour dates. I don't think those dates ever showed up there.Wow, great promotion, guys. Now I feel like a dumbass for sending their promoter an email last week asking to bring them back to St. Louis.

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Today I have managed to recreate one of the best Chinese dishes I've ever had.It was originally described at the bottom of this blog entry, and ever since I had it, and Luke later commented that you can't get greens like that around here, the memory of it grew in my head to lustful proportions, then legend, then yesterday, at Jay's Market, my eyes caught sight of the one key ingredient that would

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I have not mowed my back yard all summer. There, I said it. The neighbors can't really see it, except for the ones in the two-story duplex across the alley, but whatever. It's so tall now I actually can't mow it. The mower would just seize up. I'm going to have to get a scythe or something to whack it down.Meanwhile, there are some fascinating things going on back there. I spied a small,

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Free download, lyrics, and video:http://blogs.wnyc.org/soundcheck/2009/06/11/mp3-the-fiery-furnaces-the-end-is-near/Album soon to follow... And I REALLY hope those titles are not suggesting something about the longevity of the band.

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Yahoo Answers... OK idea.You can only answer the questions for four days, then they are closed, but what if you come up with a better answer a year later? Too bad! That's stupid!I have had this bag of shrimp in my freezer for about 12 months. Google "frozen shrimp expire". Find Yahoo Answers question "Frozen shrimp... is it still good to eat?" All of the answers are uneducated guesses.Here

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What is a hipster? In the parlance of our times, the word hipster is used to label a set of people who A) generally dress fashionably (perhaps a little TOO fashionably), B) live in an urban setting (perhaps a little TOO urban), and C) hold liberal political views (perhaps... nevermind). There are a few myths about hipsters that I would like to dispel...Hipsters will not eat your dog. This is

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Today I tried goat milk. Why? Because it was there, in the supermarket, and I've never had it before. I love it! I tastes like a milk version of goat cheese - what a shocker! I've formed a mild taste obsession with goat cheese over the past year. Now I can get that awesome flavor in my granola as well! Goat milk is delicious, and some say it's actually healthier for humans than cow milk.

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Today the light bulb went on for me with french toast. I had only about a quarter-loaf of this Companion Sourdough Olive bread, and it was about 90% dry, hard as a rock. I wanted to eat an egg and some chorizo, but I needed some toast. You know already where I'm going w/thisI think I remember from an episode of Good Eats that while french toast in America is served dessert-like, some parts of

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You know how it's a pain in the arse to share files with someone several states away? You have to burn a CD or DVD and actually mail it. Ugh!Now comes Dropbox.Problem Solved.

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Two sauces I've been working on that I should document... Neither are especially original, but they're both very easy to make, and pack a lot of great flavor.First: Morel Cream SauceAs you may know, we are in the waning days of morel hunting season. I happen to know that this part of Missouri produced a bumper crop of morels this year because I met two guys in the supermarket who bagged about 7

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Since the S101 is not sold with Linux in the US, you have to install it yourself. This is actually not very difficult at all, and can actually be completed in a few hours. Here are a list of things that took some time for me to discover that may save you some time:1) To get to the BIOS screen, press F2 repeatedly during POST.2) To get the boot device selection screen, first press F2 to see

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Whenever you put down a new ebuild in your Portage overlay dir, you have to build a manifest for it to use... I can never remember the command for it, so I am putting it here for posterity: ebuild filename digestFor instance, for a new ebuild called cedega-000133.ebuild, put it in the appropriate overlay dir, then type ebuild cedega-000133.ebuild digestDone.

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I've been meaning to do this for a long time...The words to Paddy McGinty's Goat were passed down to me by my grandpa. His father was an Irish immigrant, and I'd like to believe that they were passed down to him as well.Yes, I remember when Grandpa taught me this song. I was very young, and eager to learn it. And he was eager to teach it! We practiced for days, and I was so happy to sing a

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After a very long transit back home, I am finally here. I'm extremely tired. I have downloaded the pictures that were on my camera, and will start resizing and posting them tomorrow. Unfortunately, most of the pictures for the trip are on Shana's camera, but hopefully she'll send me a DVD soon.All in all I had a great time. Sorry I did not have any time to blog because there was so little

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Sorry I'm so weak on the posts! I only have a couple minutes here. We've seen Tallinn, Kuressaare, Tartu, and now Valga. I cant figure out how to make apostrophes on this computer! We crossed over the border into Latvia about 30 mins ago.This trip is amazing. If you don't like notably uncommercialized medieval towns, ancient fortresses, mind blowingly good food, saunas, heated swimming pools

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This is the year I discovered Jason Bredle. He introduced me to George Saunders's work. I think I have now read everything both of them have published, and several of those I've read twice.This is the year I made new and now very dear friends, like the Crabsons and the Cowins, who invited me to the Raconteurs show, whose opening band was The Fiery Furnaces.This is the year I discovered The

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And that's a little weird. Like, when I pet him, he likes to bite me. It's not in a mean way, it's just a firm, but not-too-firm bite on the arm or the finger. It seems to be an expression of pleasure for him. He also likes to pull push pins from the bulletin board and just kind of roll them around in his mouth.

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Yes, yes, yes I do, got my ticket, how 'bout YOU?

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I've just discovered Erwin Wurm. It was from this old link I found while searching for a different artist. Erwin is interested in how people see themselves. His exhibitions seem to be composed mostly of photographs of his sculptures, which are striking, simple compositions which often involve actual people frozen in medias res. His work embraces sarcasm and absurdity while presenting the dark

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There is no name for this composition. I just found it in an old notebook, and kind of like it. Morgantown, spring, 1997.'dem fish shure are jumping,I would be too.From one of the top tendirtiest riversin the good ol' U. S. of A.And the windShure is blowing that river souththough it wants to go northlike the way that rusty pipe's pointingfrom out the slimy bottom.that train shure is

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Over the past year, Wiktionary has become my dictionary of choice for online reference. Of course I'm still an OED man when it comes to source material, but as a go-to dictionary, Wiktionary is very good. (My only gripe is that its interface does not play well with my cell phone. In fact it completely sucks, and I can't believe they don't have a better mobile interface.)Just now I discovered

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"What justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples... ?" - Justice Antonin ScaliaI'm not gay, not that there's anything wrong with that. Now let's look at the numbers...Couples who are allowed the benefits of marriage in America: Man and woman of same race Man and woman of different race Divorced man and woman Divorced woman and man Divorced

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This is absolutely disgraceful. What is wrong with these people?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27955316/A Wal-Mart clerk was actually trampled to death by shoppers this morning. They actually broke down the doors and poured into the store like locusts. What the fuck is wrong with these people? They wouldn't even leave when the police demanded everyone clear out because someone was killed. They

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I'm thinking of changing my occupation to actuary. From what I've read it's a very rewarding job and there is a shortage of applicants. There are two guilds associated with this profession, and they require certification by examination to join. The practice exam I looked at reads like a discrete mathematics test. Right up my alley! I think it could be fun, and there are opportunities here in

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This hand gesture, first brought to my attention by President Clinton, has got to be the most ridiculous hand gesture ever invented. I call it the Earnest Politician. It strikes me as something contrived by political strategists as a gesture to demonstrate the strength of a closed fist, but without the menacing impact.I noticed it again when Sarah Palin started using it during the Presidential

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Black and white photography tends to make me focus on shapes and spaces more than I would with color. B&W seems more concerned with layout and design than content. Karl Benjamin shows that color can add a crucial element to the space/shape melange, even when space and shape appear to be all that matter at first.Karl Benjamin is my favorite of the hard-edge painters. It is his work, in fact,

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We dare to hope."To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you."To those who seek peace and security: We support you."And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we have proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy,

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One thing I have not heard any of the economists talking about is how much our 401ks are actually stabilizing the stock market. My 401k is small compared to most, but I have put thousands of dollars into it, and just about everyone I know who works has a 401k, so we're talking about a very large amount of money being poured INTO the stock market every day.All that money must have some

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Pennies are pretty worthless to most people. I have asked the Internet how much purchasing power a penny had when it was first issued, but nobody has answered me. I suspect it was quite a bit more powerful than it is now, or they wouldn't've issued it.Thinking about that thief that died a couple weeks ago for trying to pull the aluminum wiring from a live electrical substation, I wondered how

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A classic performance by The Jesus Lizard.I first heard about this band in high school when Eric Gordon Fur offered to trade me his Liar CD for my... something, I don't even know what I gave him for it, Sean might remember, but I do know that when we got home and started listening to it, we soon realized Eric had just fumbled one of the best CDs he owned. 15 years later my opinion has only been

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Which is the more important factor when you make your political decisions: hope of what could be, or fear of what could be?How does fear of the unknown affect your decision making? Do you prefer to go forward with a system that is known to be broken because you are afraid that the alternative will be worse?

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Postulate 1: Conservatism is generally characterized by a desire to maintain the status quo - a resistance to change.Postulate 2: The more wealth a people have amassed, the more vested they are in maintaining the status quo.Hypothesis: As the American middle class increases its wealth, it becomes more conservative.It has often been said that Nixon would be considered a liberal by today's

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Only a few days ago did I finally download the pictures I took in China from my camera. I know. I was craving the sweet mung bean soup that they eat in Wuhan when it's really hot, which is like every day, because it's so sweet and refreshing, and Wuhan got up to about 104 degrees while I was there. They served that soup every day in the cafeteria at the brewery, and it is delicious. I liked

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October 10, 2008: The Dow Jones Industrial Average rolls from a low of 7883 to 8901, but ends the day only (!) down 128 points. Pretty freakish graph to be looking at after tumbling 20% on the week. It's an alarming situation to watch unfold, knowing that a complete market seizure could be right around the corner.And while the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan rage on in the background, McCain and

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1) Falling asleep on the couch after dinner and then not waking up until after 11pm.2) What will happen to our relationship with countries like Saudi Arabia if/when we finally liberate ourselves from OPEC oil? Trade is an important factor in a relationship btwn. two countries. If we stop buying oil from them, that's a lot of money lost for them. At $100/barrel, and 1,600,000 barrels per day,

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God, the sound of that idiotic chant. Hearing it on national television is exactly like hearing the sound of your country flaunting its shameless ignorance on national television. I mean here we are mired in a war where tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of people have DIED, and let's not bullshit here, people, there's a perception in many parts of the world that our actions in Iraq were

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Just in case this is news to you, you really need to check out the English Fail Blog, and its sister site, Tattoo Disasters.Hilarious content. I shudder to think how many "english fails" I've produced in this blog, but that does not detract from the enjoyment of seeing other people's failures.

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Finally, St. Louis has an art supply opening up in the city! It's called City Art Supply. No more driving all the way out to Maplewood just to buy a sheet of mat board. Apparently they're opening this weekend. Here's the announcement.Speaking of Art in St. Louis, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Wash U. has an exhibition going on right now called The Birth of the Cool: California Art,

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That's what Sarah Palin said in last night's VP debate. I looked this term up in the Google to find out what it means. There does not seem to be a consensus, but many seem to lean toward thinking this means LIBERAL. For all I know it just means politicians from states along the US eastern seaboard suck. Or is it all states east of the Ohio, or what? Is West Virginia considered East Coast?

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... Not Steak au Poivre. I didn't want to spend $6/lb on filets mignon of questionable quality, and didn't want to wait for a better selection, so I improvised this dish from regular stew meat, presumably chuck, and I do believe it is at least a promising beginning. The inspiration for this came from Alton Brown's Steak au Poivre, which I have made before, and used way too much pepper. It was

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The national unemployment rate is currently 6.1%. When Bush came into office it was 4.0%Looking at this chart of unemployment, which ranges from 1950 to 2005, there seems to be a pretty clear correspondence between republican administrations and increases in unemployment. The blue parts are democratic administrations. With the exception of the Reagan administration, all Republican

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Yo mamma is so fat, her measurements are more easily represented by converting them to spherical coordinates.

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According to this article on cnn.com, iReporter and mortgage broker Margaret Lopez thinks we should use the $700 billion to bail out citizens who were sold these bad mortgages.Sounds like a great idea to me. If banks need the bailout because the mortgages they invested in turned out to be bad, then we should be ensuring the mortgages get paid, right? $700 billion should cover it.Right? I mean

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