I've been making mozzarella for a while, and baking for even longer. Last year I started growing herbs on my balcony, and ever since then I've wanted to make pizza from scratch -- flour, milk, and tomatoes. I finally pulled it off last night, so I thought I'd post the results for everyone to see.


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Katie is a Milla Jovovich fan, so yesterday we went to see Resident Evil: Afterlife. It was bad. I don't mean mediocre, or not my thing. This was an unambiguously terrible movie. The plot made no sense, the character development was pitiful, and the whole basis for the zombies was diluted. To keep you from having to see it yourselves I'm going to ( Read more... )

I took a weekend vacation to New York City! It was fun and very relaxing. Pictures are up on Picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/adamhaun/NewYorkCityTrip

Haven't seen one of these in a while.

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Heuristics and biases are widespread in human reasoning. Familiarity with heuristics and biases can enable us to detect a wide variety of logical flaws that might otherwise evade our inspection. But, as with any ability to detect flaws in reasoning, this inspection must be applied evenhandedly: both to our own ideas and the ideas of others; to ( Read more... )

One of my hobbies is the study of information graphics. It's a surprisingly interesting and powerful discipline with applications in many fields. Given how often we use (and abuse) visual communication in everyday life, I think it's important enough for it to be taught alongside good writing and speaking practices ( Read more... )

I want the sixties to end ( Read more... )

FYI, Houston municipal water has just been declared safe to drink. The Chronicle has a blog post that's updated several times a day with the status of each neighborhood. A few neighborhoods, especially on the southeast side of town, still don't have safe water.

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