March 2009
227 posts
1 tag
Southern Biscuits
Ingredients
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup buttermilk, chilled
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The...
February 2009
83 posts
3 tags
Safari 4 and Bookmarklets
Invoking the Delicious or Instapaper bookmarklets with the mouse creates a pop-up window. When invoked with the keyboard shortcut (command - #) the popup window is shunted into a new tab.
With Instapaper the behavior is welcome since no interaction is needed. With Delicious it is kinda annoying since I probably want to add tags and click to save.
Chipotle Sweet Potato Soup With Bell Pepper-Bacon... →
Ming Tsai
Pan Seared Salmon with Avocado Remoulade - Simply... →
The Publican Chicago →
Oysters, pork and beer. What’s not to like? 837 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
“Baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team one.”
– Michael Lewis in “The No-Stats All-Star” - NYTimes.com
“The essence of a humanities education — reading the great literary and...”
– In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth - NYTimes.com
Holy Crap. Safari 4 is really fast laying out crappy Desire@Learn based websites.
New Glarus continues to lay claim to best brewery in Wisconsin with an excellent Iced Barley Wine. Very dark, very thick, and quite hot.
Revert Safari 4 beta's tab bar →
New is not always better.
Alternatives to MobileMe →
“Then, to sync, choose Sync Now from the Sync menu in your menu bar. (If the menu isn’t already there, open iSync in your Applications folder, choose iSync: Preferences, select Show Status in Menu…
I see that Jane’s Addiction is getting back together. Aren’t you pretty shocked that Perry Farrell is still with us?
Just made crackers. Rye flour, spelt, and whole wheat flours with rosemary, flax and sesame seeds. A little too crumbly. If that is a word.
R Graph Gallery :: thumbnails gallery →
via Gelman
Tonight’s beer: @atofias points out that New Glarus Crack’d Wheat is a reasonable facsimile of Ommegang’s Hennepin Farmhouse Saison.
I’m going with tan, brownish desktop backgrounds for today. They match my sweater. I thought you might like to know.
“[W]hat on earth Boehner might mean when he talks about taxpayers “rewarding”...”
– Paul Krugman is against stupidity
4 tags
From a story on the New York Times selloff →
Implication that the Red Sox generate $40-$60m in profits for the owners annually.
Constitutionmaking.org →
A web compendium of constitutions and more via John Sides at the Monkey Cage.
5 tags
“Pay competitive salaries [to ‘student-athletes’] under current rules...”
– Thomas Grennes
Safari140 - Twitter extension for Safari →
Is this a hack or safe to use?
If I leave the office it means I have to get some exercise but there is weather outside so I am still working a little bit longer.
“My philosophy is that, people buying records is dying. Generally speaking, at...”
– Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear on Pitchfork
Why does Rick think any of these people are clean? http://tinyurl.com/bd9bn9
7 tags
Setting up a Mac
I need a place to put this. It might as well be here. When recent switchers ask for advice I typically send some version of this list. Note that the information here might be dated, but I do update this post from time to time.
Setting Up Mac OS X
Some notes that might be helpful (reconsidered February 2012).
→ After doing the Apple welcome/walk-through, etc:
In Safari go to Preferences and...
Tumblr Censorship Controversy: Pics, Videos,... →
I guess I really just need to roll my own.
Vacilando Territory Blues by J Tillman →
“A Fleet Fox steps out with a quietly compelling, haunting work”
“You’ve been humming in a daze forever. Praying for Pavement to get back...”
– Matt Berninger of The National on “So Far Around The Bend” from the Dark was the Night compilation.
“It’s players like Pedroia who will keep the game from ever getting stale....”
– Rob Neyer
He’s so right.
“Ultimately, it won’t matter. In 1978, President Carter chided Mr. Kahn for...”
– Eduardo Porter in the New York Times Editorial Notebook
Hush by Asobi Seksu →
Citrus rocked. Pitchfork doesn’t seem to love this one.
The truth about prediction markets →
via Gelman
Simple Roast Chicken Recipe →
Thomas Keller roasts chicken.
No Reservations in Chicago →
Anthony Bourdain via White Chocolate
I found an old BN.com gift card. A quick check reveals that EVERYTHING is cheaper at Amazon. Is the Barnes & Noble website just robbery?
Here We Go Magic s/t →
Sounds promising.
Sorry cows, but man, steak *is* good.
Where is the romance in taking a horse drawn carriage ride around a mall?
What’s your favorite non-LP Pavement track? I’m putting up Spit on A Stranger’s “Roll with the Wind.” Your Thoughts?
I’m holding Phish tickets as I type this.
Marc Webb Takes Us Through The Music Of 500 Days... →
via Mets Fan #1. Music and films just go well together.
If your mad at Trey, I suggest First Tube off of Plasma. It doesn’t forgive every sin, but it’s fucking brilliant and explains a lot.
NodeBox →
via Layer Tennis, this looks useful and fun…potentially a great way to learn a little python.
Skimming http://tinyurl.com/as2vfm from @gruber, I feel great about having bought EagleFiler from Michael Tsai, a true friend for users.
The best part about making video lectures is exporting them and watching all four CPUs max out. This doesn’t spin the fans but Flash does.
Any suggestions on the proper way to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday tomorrow?
Word of the Day? Bicameralism. Nope. Supermajority. True.
“But even as Congressional leaders and top White House officials went through the...”
– Deal Struck on $789 Billion Stimulus, By David M. Herszenhorn And Carl Hulse