A while ago on one of my favorite cooking shows the chef made a dish with chipotle peppers. She extoled their unique flavor as “bacon for vegetarians.” With a description like that, I couldn’t resist trying a bunch of different recipes laden with these mysterious peppers.
Chipotle (pronounced chee-POHT-lay) peppers are simply smoked red jalapenos, a [...]
In David Cross’ recent stand up album, Shut up you fucking baby, he talks about his childhood in Atlanta, being the only Jew on the block, and most importantly about the misconception that hicks are actually from the south. This past weekend, I tested his hypothesis, and went with a few new friends to the [...]
I’ve heard of these shenanigans before, but never been so lucky as to be personally involved. I just received an official looking email with return address service@paypal.com asking people to verify their account information to cut down on fraud:
Your As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of [...]
In the past week I made my way down to Atlanta for a summer position at the CDC (more on that later). It was an arrangement of amazing serendipity that came together at the last minute, and I’m very thankful for the opportunity. Everyone needs a regular influx of ideas as well as breaks from [...]
In his keynote at the JupiTerZ conference on weblog strategy, David Weinberger revealed that he tends to scale everything by a factor of 2.5. Not surprisingly, this is the original calculated value of the cameronfactor, first observed by Jonah Peretti in 2001. It begs the question: the cameronfactor is either a universal human constant or [...]
A story I posted last year purported that wine experts were easily hornswoggled into thinking white wine is red. This seems to confirm many peoples’ suspicions that wine tasting is an entirely subjective experience, or at least that the visual component is much more important than we would predict.
A recent study shows that wine [...]
I recently became aware of an interesting debate over what I thought was common sense. Until I started asking around, I never would have thought this was so contentious (i.e. I thought I was right, goddammit). The question is over which spice goes in which shaker. Here’s the beef:
Flavor Camp: Salt goes in the shaker [...]
I just received a call for papers for a conference entitled Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA ‘03) which is hosted, not ironically with the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies in Orlando Florida this fall. I think there is a fascinating paper on weblogs and the microcontent influence on politics.
Weblogs [...]
So it’s definitely not SARS. For the past few days I’ve been bedridden with some mysterious virus, perhaps the first EVER summer malady in my life. And of course I did what I always do when I get stuck with a tough cold: consume. In the past three days I’ve gone through two gallons of [...]