A few days ago I dreamed that I, and several other people, had superpowers, but to activate them we needed to eat crystallized ginger. I’ve still got some crystallized ginger candy that I bought at Fairway last year, and just ate a piece, but no superpowers. (Hm. It also tastes a lot stronger in real life than it did in the dream.)

I also recently ( Read more... )

cthulhia was in town, so we met for brunch and robot lobsters.


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I’ve had a hankering for curried egg salad for about a week now, which is odd, since I’d never before eaten any. But I googled up a recipe, and made the following mods:

• Used low-fat mayo
• Subbed dried cranberries for the dried currants, ’cause where the hell do you find dried currants?
• Rounded the 2.75 tsp of curry powder up to 3 tsp, ’cause 2.75, WTF ( Read more... )

kent_allard_jr and I showed up at Spring Street for life drawing. (Note: Ten minutes before the session starts isn’t early enough to get a really good spot.) It was a mediocre session for me. I’d stocked up on a variety of drawing media; I was especially psyched about using black and white conté on brown kraft paper. Turned out my best drawings were done with ( Read more... )

Busy day today. First, a life drawing session at Spring Street Studio; I need to do that more often. (Results posted over on sketchblogs.) From there I immediately wandered down to get more art supplies (a thinner sketchbook for everyday use, a pad of brown kraft paper and some black and white conté for the next life drawing session). I hoped to be able to ( Read more... )

I finally got to eat at the Shake Shack! Damn, now I envy everyone who works in a one-block radius of Madison Square. Well, maybe not, since I hear the line at lunchtime gets hour-long. It opened up from winter hiatus last month, but it closes at 4 PM in April. Open till 9 now, though, so there’s plenty of time after work to get yer shake on ( Read more... )

From Steve Lambe: the best picture of Mr Magoo ever.

Greasemonkey is an extension for Firefox that lets you run arbitrary DHTML in viewed pages. In other words you can add stuff, delete stuff, change function, fix bugs, whatever, on whatever pages you want. People have written a bunch of user scripts already that you can install with a simple ( Read more... )

I saw Steamboy with bugsybanana last night. The subtitled director’s cut playing at the Landmark Cinema, not the dubbed and trimmed-down version showing at the AMC. Not that I knew that going in; I chose the venue because I felt like having some Katz’s Deli matzo ball soup ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the last day of cadhla’s visit to the east coast. The bunch of us went out to see if we could get cheap tickets to Avenue Q (I joined them, having decided based on the CD that it’s probably not $50 worth of funny, but $20 sounds about right), didn’t get them, and wound up with $50 tickets to The Producers instead. It was pretty darn funny, ( Read more... )

Slice is a blog devoted to pizza, especially NYC pizza. They’ve set up a special section for visiting GOP conventioneers, telling tourists how to order a slice (“First, it’s a ‘slice,’ not a ‘piece of pizza.’ New Yorkers don’t have time for all that verbiage.”), how to hold it once you’ve ordered it, and where to find coal-fire oven pizza. It also ( Read more... )