I don’t have my PowerBook right now, and it’s making me crazy. My PowerBook had two problems: there were several (more than 20) stuck pixels, and it wouldn’t always wake from sleep (screen would remain black). I’d been living with these problems for more than 6 months, since I hate being without my PowerBook. Right …
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Shutterbug
I’ve been slowly adding to the photoblog, so if you have not been over there in a while, stop by and check it out. I also just created an account on photoblogs.org, and added the photoblog there; I got one really kind comment almost immediately. This might just be the type of encouragement I need …
Late night at the Amphora
I’m just back from meeting up with my friend Jen for a quick cup of coffee. In a humorous replay of our college selves of fifteen years ago, we bummed off to the Amphora a few blocks from her parents place in Vienna, Va. True to form, we had a little hummus, a little coffee …
Àpropos de cinéma
Having read High Fidelity a couple months ago, I became interested in top 5 lists, and created the following list of my favorite movies: 12 Angry Men (the best courtroom drama movie that manages to hardly ever enter the courtroom) Heathers (nod to the 80’s films from my formative teen years, besides I need a …
Back home
I’m back home after a week in New Orleans. Thursday I was at Xavier to do a little recruiting for the University of Maryland graduate school, the actual reason for the trip to New Orleans in the first place. We only met with 15 undergraduates, and most of them were not eligible for the summer …
Genius in silver
You find out the oddest things on the web; it works out that the largest collection of pictures of one of my favorite photographers (Henri Cartier-Bresson) is in New Orleans. A Gallery for Fine Photography in the French Quarter is a small gallery that hosts in impressive collection of photos from two of the world’s …
When did I become a romance councilor?
I’ve spent the last four days trying to convince someone that their potential May-December romance with an eighteen-year-old would be a bad idea. The fundamental problem isn’t about age or even about life experience — it is really about the people involved. The guy spent the last 4 days telling me all about all the …
Let them eat gumbo…
New Orleans wouldn’t be “the Big Easy” without New Orleans Jazz and it’s world famous gumbo. Here’s a recipe I’ve modified from foodtv’s Tyler Florence. I’ve switched it to use crab instead of oysters, because after all I’m a Marylander, born and bred. [Recipe moved to a static page]
A quick recipe for Jef
In honor of my friend Jef once more being able to eat anything he pleases, I present my current favorite chili recipe. This recipe is just a modified version of Chernobyl Chili from the rec.food.recipes archive. [recipe moved to a static page]
Zydecko, blues, and gumbo
Arrived in New Orleans yesterday; I caught a standby flight and made it here 12 hours earlier than planned. Peter Chang joined me on the trip since he couldn’t catch his flight to Iraq. He managed to get thrown off my flight and came in 2 hours after I had landed. We’re staying at a …