| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 |
| 4:00 pm |
Google Voice?
I'm wondering if anyone has a spare Google Voice invite? I'm terrible at checking my voicemail, and something that transcribed it and emailed it to me would be truly a "killer app" for helping me keep in touch with people. Hayelp! |
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| Monday, October 26th, 2009 |
| 5:20 pm |
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| Saturday, October 24th, 2009 |
| 1:46 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 |
| 1:31 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 |
| 11:00 pm |
Work with a Moose! In Boston! For two months!
My company is looking for a hella smart Java programmer to work with me in Boston for two months (November and December). Technically, you'd be working with me for three weeks in November and 2.5 weeks in December, and working the rest of the time on your own in Boston while I collaborated with you remotely from Seattle. We'd be working in an approximately-XP environment with a nice Scrum wrapper snuggled up around it, doing Java/DHTML/JSP programming for an application deployed to a Weblogic server with an Oracle database back-end. Unit and acceptance tests using TestNG (functionally equivalent to xUnit) and HTMLUnit. Pair programming. TDD. Knowledge of any of the above is a plus. Knowledge of, experience with, and approval of automated testing and pair programming is a must. I'm trying to hire someone from my social circle because you're all hella smart. So if anyone out there is, or knows personally, anyone matching the above description, please get in touch/put them in touch! Thanks! P.S. Did I mention, you get to work with a Moose? I'm hella smrt, too! |
| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, September 26th, 2009 |
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| Thursday, September 24th, 2009 |
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| Friday, September 18th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, September 12th, 2009 |
| 8:58 pm |
Politics.
I had been avoiding it. Post-Obama's-speech, I have enough hope to follow it again. What a circus. :-) About damned time. As if we could afford an Executive branch that was answerable only to itself. We had a name for that, 200-odd years ago. We called it "King George". We weren't terribly fond of it then. I'm no more fond of it now. Family values? How much hypocrisy will the American people swallow? Sooner or later, even the Average American Ignoramus has to put two and two together and get, if not four, at least "something more than two". Meanwhile, for your auditory pleasure: |
| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 |
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| Friday, August 14th, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 |
| 12:12 pm |
On the cooking of goat (and other fine foods).
Last night, I cooked with goat for the first time. Got a big flat of bone-in goat leg chunks, two eggplants, two medium onions, and two cans (ick!) of diced tomatoes. Very regrettable, that last--use fresh tomatoes if you make this yourself. Sliced the eggplant into roughly 3/4" to 1" thick rings, dipped both sides in olive oil, and grilled them over charcoal until browned on both sides and tender-ish. Grilled the goat chunks enough to sear and flavor the outside--goat was still almost inedibly tough. Sliced the onions into thin rings and sauteed them in half a stick of butter until they started to get translucent. Part-way through, added lots of chili pepper and coriander, some cardamom, and just a hint of cloves. If you're looking for measurements--maybe a tablespoon of moderate chili pepper (or a teaspoon of a good Indian chili), a tablespoon of coriander, a teaspoon of cardamom, and a half-teaspoon of cloves. But that's very approximate. Oh, and I didn't add fresh-cracked black pepper, but I should have. If you don't want to do the spicing yourself, just add two to three tablespoons of a good garam masala, and you'll be fine. Cubed the grilled eggplant. Combined the eggplant, two cans of diced tomatoes, and goat with the sauteed, spiced onions. Turned the heat way down, and simmered until the goat was tender, which took quite a while. Don't worry about over-cooking it: the veggies all do well "cooked dead", and the goat would benefit from being falling-off-the-bone tender. And there you have it! Grilled goat masala, or something very much like it. P.S. If you have more time or ambition than I did, you might try marinating the goat in yogurt and spices first, and making something close to tandoori goat masala. Good luck! |
| Monday, August 10th, 2009 |
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