Author: Kris

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    @Illdrinn I dunno. I have a friend who went there in New York and loved it. Plus I have love for the Korean-Americans (since I am one). 🙂


    @Illdrinn Now you’re bumming me out. Should I pay $350 to find see if the Emperor has new clothes? Hmmm.


    Sweet, just got confirmation of my registration for Google Developer Day. Looking forward to it! Special thanks to @Illdrinn…


    At Sydney Uni for an evening of molecular gastronomy!


    Frocktober #17. Bright orange legs and Liza on a crappy grey day. http://t.co/LvnljwlG


    Look what Amazon brought me! Thanks to @knitterjp for the recommendation… http://t.co/2hu4SYUk


    @knitabulous @MissVicki79 You guys didn’t miss much. Bad acoustics + thick French accent = mostly incomprehensible. For 2 hours. 🙁


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    Cold and drizzly rain. THAT sucked.


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    Frocktober #17. Bright orange legs and Liza on a crappy grey day.

    Frocktober #17. Bright orange legs and Liza on a crappy grey day.

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    RT @witty_knitter: @smh journo Terry Lane thinks failed photographers take up knitting. Check @sixandahalfst @assemblagekj and http://t. …


    @Illdrinn Even though I’m only tangentially a dev these days?


    @Illdrinn Ooh, looking at the agenda: Yes, please. Will clear it with my boss.


    @gilmae Yay! I’m sure it’ll be awesome.


    Frocktober #16. Attack of the Angry Bird. (I made that skirt.) http://t.co/LJjiD4WH


    I have lost all will in life to do anything but sit on my couch and watch Community. I blame @kunaal84.


    I should’ve gone with Ada Lovelace. You don’t have to worry about your ass hanging out in an Ada Lovelace costume. #halloween


    Momofuku Seiobo open for reservations! System only seems to allow bookings for next 9 days. I’m gonna wait a few weeks…


    @steven_noble I’ve only ever been there once before. I’m excited! Trying to get in for our anniversary next month. 🙂


  • The Great Penguin Sweater Fiasco

    The Great Penguin Sweater Fiasco. Yep, history seems to have repeated itself. The little NZ penguins don’t actually need sweaters and they aren’t being used. So don’t knit them! Do something else productive instead!

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    Frocktober #16. Attack of the Angry Bird. (I made that skirt.)

    Frocktober #16. Attack of the Angry Bird. (I made that skirt.)

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    @voicework Evidently not in tiny backwater elementary schools in Indiana in the 80’s. I ended up with a trumpet, which at least was LOUD. 🙂


    Halloween Pumpkin Price Watch: $19.99 at Costco. I get why they’re $$, but I just can’t. http://t.co/FojUrzMA


    Jamie’s 30 Min Meals #34: Meatball Sandwich, Pickled Cabbage, Chopped Salad, & Banana Ice Cream. http://t.co/KCn0oYpT Good but not awesome.


    @CleaSR From the book? I don’t know of a chicken Maryland meal in here. Was it the Cypriot chicken? We liked that one.


    @randomknits Drugs? I had my GP prescribe me some drugs for when I have too many of those nights in a row.


    @randomknits I get temazepam, but I had to promise to only take rarely and never with alcohol. (It’s highly habit-forming.) Works for me.


    @witty_knitter @randomknits Nah, I went nuclear. My biggest problem is waking up a lot during the night. Does valerian work for that?


    I wish I was a bus driver… so I could see if smoothly accelerating and decelerating is as difficult as this jackass makes it out to be.


    @redambition Both Rodd and I have had it crash once each. #anecdata


    @liedra Well, I think you’ll find the word is French. And they pronounce it like the Yanks. 🙂


    @betsybookworm Eh, that’s the kind of wrongheaded thinking that leads to people typing “WAH-LAH” in Internet forums.


    @betsybookworm “Voila” is a French word that people also spell/pronounce incorrectly. “Fill-it” sounds just as wrong to my ears as “wah-lah”


    @betsybookworm @liedra Eh, I’m mostly prescriptivist so I’ll go with that. I still think “fill-it” sounds weird tho, even after 10 years. 🙂


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    Halloween Pumpkin Price Watch: $19.99 at Costco. I get why they’re $$, but I just can’t. http://yfrog.com/nz3unmuj


  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #34: Meatball Sandwich

    This was our 34th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. We’ll be going on hiatus for a few weeks due to our annual Halloween party as well as a small trip I’m taking to Victoria. Also, this time of year is just insanely busy… which is why I’m only just now getting around to posting this meal, which we actually made last weekend. Whoops. Anyway, for this one we chose “Meatball Sandwich, Pickled Cabbage, Chopped Salad, and Banana Ice Cream.” We chose it because we took a punt the week before and bought bananas, reckoning they’d ripen up in time to use. They did! I was on chef’s duty for this one and – though I thought I was speeding along – I clocked in at a disappointing 40:46. It was tasty though.

    Meatball Sandwich meal

    Substitutions: I actually made a double-batch of the meatballs (simply because I accidentally thawed too much hamburger). Other than that, we followed the recipe pretty much exactly!

    Quick verdict: Nothing too challenging or objectionable here! Just a nice simple meal, and probably one that would appeal to kids as well. The sandwich was hearty, but I thought the meatballs were a little bland. The red cabbage really perked up the sandwich though, especially with the chilli and mint. (The recipe makes more than double the slaw actually need. We were eating it all week.) The chopped salad was very good, with the avocado and feta giving it an almost creamy texture. The “ice cream” was a bit of a gimmick, and I’m not sure the coconut added much. We both rated it an 8 out of 10. A pretty good meal, but nothing that really stood out as amazing. You could feed this one to just about anybody though!

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