I admit it, I have Turkey Anxiety. I’ve never actually cooked a complete Thanksgiving meal, and in fact I very, very, very rarely cook at all. David handles most of the day to day stuff, although I have a few things that I make for the two of us. We never entertain, because the house is almost never company-ready. There’s too much stuff to put away and no place to put it, and yadda yadda. But every now and then, I get the wild urge to make a turkey dinner around the holidays, with the side items that are my…
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We saw lots of Georgian buildings on our trip to Dublin in August, and many of the best-preserved must have benefited from the work of the Irish Georgian Society: Now observing its 50th year with a series of celebrations and a lavishly illustrated book, the revived Irish Georgian Society has been credited with restoring dozens of architectural gems across Ireland, from a former union hall for Dublin tailors to the country’s oldest Palladian house. (The society’s early preservation efforts focused on Georgian Dublin, but in later years it expanded its mission to cover noteworthy buildings from any period.) Perhaps more…
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Another glorious image of Jupiter and Saturn, taken in Chile: Night skies over Chilean mountain top observatories can be dark and clear, with glorious cosmic vistas. In this recent example, the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stretches parallel to the horizon, the galactic center’s star clusters, dark dust clouds, and glowing nebulae hovering in the west. Recorded after sunset, the wedge of light extending upward through the scene is Zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust along the solar system’s ecliptic plane. A faint meteor was also caught in the view, but approaching a conjunction, brilliant Venus and bright Jupiter…
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Every once in a while, something will appear in the night sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up. It’s likely to be that way on Monday evening, Dec. 1. A slender crescent moon, just 15 percent illuminated, will appear in very close proximity to the two brightest planets in our sky, Venus and Jupiter. Via Venus, Jupiter will ‘shine’ Monday night – Space.com- msnbc.com I noticed two bright “stars” on my way home the other night near the Moon; this must be Jupiter and Venus, setting up for Monday’s big show. I…
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Creme brûlée, thank God. Could have been bean paste. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: What is it? Dessert? By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Nov ’08, 7.10pm CST PST Creme brûlée, thank God. Could have been bean paste. Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Just like that, my sushi ship came in. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Kampai! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Nov ’08, 6.51pm CST PST Just like that, my sushi ship came in. Ginny I can has iPhone?
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These look like good places to try on our next visit to London. Clamorous pub patios line the streets of London in summer, luring those who like a side order of sunburn with their al-fresco beer. But the city’s best taverns arguably come into their own in winter, when cozy quaffers hunker over dark ales before crackling fireplaces as tempests whip at the windows outside. With many of the city’s toastiest watering holes hidden just off the beaten path, here’s a six-pack of the best for those planning their next seasonal visit. Drink in London history by the pintful —…
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Here’s how David fixed the problem I was having posting to WordPress from any source other than my normal edit window. See if you can make any sense of it; all I know is I can post to my blog from my iPhone, Flickr, Scribefire (I’m still using 3.1.3), and probably ecto/Linear again. Geeky Ramblings » Blog Archive » Temporary LIBXML2 solution The problem has been narrowed down to a bug in LIBXML2 that causes leading angle brackets “<†to be stripped off of posts when processed through the XMLRPC support in PHP. I logged the issue in the WordPress…
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Via Mad Priest: Of course, I could be wrong…: we have these in England – we call them discos Jill Jeppesen sways and swirls her body in the dim light of the open room, inspiring dozens of other dancers to dance their prayers. With her husband, Michael, she started Dance Church in May and have been hosting dances in Sugar House and Midvale. Dance church is non-denominational, and welcomes participants from all walks of life to participate in a unique experience. Michael Jeppesen acts as DJ and played a wide variety of music ranging from tribal drums to Nelly, even…
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It’s just not a traditional Thanksgiving here unless I have to drop everything in the middle of making a batch of onion dill bread and send David out to get a critical ingredient. 4 years ago, it was yeast: Phew, had un petit crise earlier today when I started to make the onion dill bread – I had purchased cake yeast (that is, it’s pressed into a cake and has to be refrigerated, not that it’s just for making cakes). And when I opened the wrapper, there were three or four different kinds of fungus on it. At the time,…