So there’s a new Radiohead album. There’s also a video for one of the songs that features Thom Yorke dancing in a warehouse. Somebody has set his dancing to BeyoncΓ©’s “Single Ladies.” It made my day.
Month: February 2011
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The benefits of ego-surfing
The Snook discovered today that he’s a referenced author! Someone actually found a practical use for the results of his university chem thesis and patented it. He’s listed in the references and everything! Now we’re trying to figure out his ErdΕs-Bacon number.
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Shared today on Twitter
Our Jamie’s 30 Minute Meal #5: Oozy Mushroom Risotto, Spinach Salad, and Lemon & Raspberry Cheesecake. http://bit.ly/eEAg4p Best yet!
How do savvy teams deliver successful projects? Brilliant infographic: http://bit.ly/gaYexc
Our new food process has arrived, and it is a beautiful thing. NOW WHAT CAN I PULVERIZE?
@twelveeyes Ooohhhh, now there’s an idea. I can be the Zumbo of Chippendale! π
@venks79 And they pulled the bus GPS data feed down immediately after #apps4nsw, so no app to help you out either. π @Opheli8
I’ve had a big increase in both Twitter and GMail spam in the past few days. Anybody else?
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Shared today on Google Reader
- Meat-Only Diet = Crave Carbs. Meat + Egg: No Craving
- 10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Starting Out As A BA
- Requirements infographic
- Saturday Night Special: Welcome To The Dollhouse – Oh my god. I too received a doll with glasses to “make me feel better” about getting them myself. At least I never got my picture taken with it.
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A familiar neck
Saturday was the apps4nsw development day, a “hack day” event where programmers were challenged to mash up government data in new useful ways. The Snook went along as part of the Yahoo team. (He tried to get me to go, but I felt like a day at home knitting was a bigger priority.) I followed along throughout the morning on the Twitter stream when I saw a bunch of people retweeting a Flickr photo. I clicked through and saw a very familiar neck…
Hey! That’s my Snookums! I immediately emailed to tell him he was Twitter-famous.
The project he helped with didn’t win a prize, but I was proud of him just for taking part.
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #5: Oozy Mushroom Risotto
This is our fifth official cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. Hey, we’ve made it through 10% of the book! I had plans to go to the Eveleigh Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning, so I figured we should find a recipe that uses ingredients I can get there. We settled on Oozy Mushroom Risotto, Spinach Salad, and Quick Raspberry & Lemon Cheesecake. For most of my life, mushrooms have been my most hated food, but I’ve been working to get over that in the past few years. I figured this would help. But I wasn’t going to use just any old crap button mushrooms from Coles. There’s always a stall at Eveleigh selling fancy mushrooms (“The Fun Guy”), so that was my first stop Saturday morning. Let me tell you: 500g of fresh exotic mushrooms is NOT cheap. Neither are dried porcini. I’m glad I suffered the expense though, as the resulting meal was well worth it.
Quick verdict: No substitutions on this one; we followed the recipe pretty much exactly. Elapsed time was 43:07, which wasn’t too bad. In terms of taste it was fantastic, and we both rated it 9.5/10. I would have never thought such a quick risotto would turn out so good! We did come up with a couple things we’d do differently next time though.
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Shared today on Twitter
Me and Bex at Fair Day earlier today. @ Victoria Park http://instagr.am/p/BuKeg/
Cardigan body is done. Welcome to Sleeve-town.
Tonight’s Jamie recipe: Oozy Mushroom Risotto, Spinach Salad, and Lemon Raspberry Cheesecake. SO GOOD. Blog will be up tomorrow!
@lemon_lime @kunaal84 Awww… I didn’t! π
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Photo Post
Me and Bex at Fair Day earlier today.
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Shared today on Twitter
@jadzor @steveathon Heh. That’s my husband. Say hi from his missus! π
RT @steveathon: Awesome photo of one of the @Yahoo devs working hard on #apps4nsw hacks http://t.co/7ko2ro8 // It’s the Snook!!
@steveathon Well, and he’s using MY MacBook! π
@knitabulous Must admit, haven’t worn mine much. The wool annoys me too, which doesn’t help.
High on cat grass, Petey stretches in the sun. http://instagr.am/p/BsbT2/