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One Year Later

December 31, 2009

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my first post to this blog, in which I listed three goals:

Learn how to use and customize WordPress, which would be of use to some of my web clients.
See if I can get into the routine of posting something every day that won’t bore the hell out of [...]

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Error: Client Not Found

October 29, 2009
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I lost a web site client today. I didn’t get a “we’re going a different way” email, there was no phone call informing me that my services were no longer required. In fact, I didn’t speak to the client at all. I was forced to deduce I had been kicked to the curb from [...]

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With the Beatles

September 11, 2009
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That’s how I’ve spent the last three days, with the Beatles. (I didn’t Meet the Beatles, that was a Capitol records construct.) I mentioned back in July that I had pre-ordered The Beatles Rock Band; it finally arrived on Wednesday. Needless to say, I spent five hours playing through all of the songs in solo [...]

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Readercon 20

July 9, 2009
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This afternoon I’m heading to Readercon 20, the speculative fiction conference I have been involved with for twenty years. The best explanation of what I’ve been doing there all this time is in this essay I contributed to the Souvenir Book, whose cover is pictured above:
Twenty Years of Readercon

Looking back, I can blame it [...]

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That’s My Kid Too

June 30, 2009

Michael Goudeau, writer and producer for Penn & Teller: Bullshit! and co-host of PennRadio, has written an excellent article for the James Randi Educational Foundation. That’s My Kid Too is his response to an anti-vaccination documentary that could have been directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
Goudeau, like me, responds the only way we know how:
You see that [...]

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Re-Make, Re-Model

June 30, 2009

As mentioned here previously, this blog is in need of a theme appearance overhaul. What you see now is the scaffolding for the construction of a new design, based on the Thesis theme (see the link at the bottom of the page). I’m making changes already; the first order of business was restoring of Belm [...]

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Four Magic Words

June 29, 2009

Tasty salted pig parts. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, there’s no part of that phrase I don’t like.
Boccalone is a salumeria in San Francisco, but they also have an online store. Add this to my list of reasons for a trip to the west coast.
(Thanks to Yggdrasil for forwarding the photo.)

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Market Report

June 20, 2009

Another morning spent at the farmer’s market. I’m already back in the habit of pacing myself: not buying something merely because it looks good, but only if I’ll cook it within the week.

Sugar snap peas, fresh cut flowers for She Who Must Be Obeyed, eggs and bacon from Stillman’s farm, more mozzarella, peach jam and [...]

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Thinking About Rethinking Autism

June 17, 2009

“Autism. It’s all over the media. The conversation is focused on causation and cure. It’s time to change the conversation toward hope, support, respect and understanding. The facts are not sexy. So, we got someone who is to explain them.”
Using a hot babe to direct attention to autism issues is a stroke of genius. The [...]

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Individual Fresh Berry Gratins

June 16, 2009

I had all these fresh strawberries and a desire to make a relatively easy dessert from them. I found this recipe in the current issue of Cook’s Illustrated. Little did I know such a simple recipe could be so fraught with epic fail.
I wanted a mixture of berries, so I retrieved some blackberries and raspberries [...]

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