From today's PostSecret: It's true! I didn't get paid until I'd been here a month, so I went on an unintentional diet and part of my ass disappeared. Even now I have to be judicious at the supermarket. But reading spider88's posts translates into making sure I bought eggs yesterday (Friday was payday!), and lemme tell you scrambled eggs and buttered toast ( Read more... )

Food porn.

Eat your brunch already. Unless it's a wedding cake or some other really elaborately-decorated confection, put it in your mouth and put the damn camera away.

Why the hell do you think anybody, even you later on, wants to see a picture of your huevos rancheros on Flickr? Food is transitory and fleeting. You want to remember that meal? ( Read more... )

Holy crap, Kaygetsu, that's the best dinner I've ever had in my life.

Also, as nmapster, noise, and I were sitting there, enjoying the food, this being a place the two of them apparently just go to on a pretty regular basis, as though humans could earn that kind of grace, suddenly noise goes, "Is that Whitfield Diffie at the table behind us?" And it was. ( Read more... )

I went to a buffet for lunch today with a guy who is smaller than I am: shorter and with a lean frame. Homeboy put away two plates stacked full of food. I put away not even half that much, and as we all know, I am capable of consuming mass quantities. I guess it is a metabolism thing ( Read more... )

In other other news, I went back to the co-op today and dropped mad cash on groceries. I made myself a quick, tasty dinner, which I consumed while reading an essay about Casanova's legendary gourmandism and its link to his other favorite pastime. Very apropos. Then for dessert, I had:

Spirulina carob bites.

That is, blue-green algae + vegetarian ( Read more... )

It's 30 degrees out. 30 is supposed to be the *high* on Friday. Fie on cold fronts. At least we're not buried in snow, but sweet Jesus, what a nasty change from Santa Cruz. I am hiding in the refuge of my electric blanket.

CodeCon was fun. I caught up with people I knew, met cool new people, and saw starofpersia at Writers with Drinks - I hadn't seen her in ( Read more... )

wealhtheow (11:35): know what i'm eating right now?
ilcylic (11:35): taco bell?
ilcylic (11:35): calamari?
wealhtheow (11:35): hemp granola.
ilcylic (11:35): Jesus fuck.
ilcylic (11:35): We have to get you out of Oregon, stat!