If you like cooking and sharing recipes, head over to recipecllctn and start posting. (You can also use the tags list to find interesting food, but please add your favorite dishes too.)

Added Sherman Oaks pictures to Portraits of a City (aka "that LA photos site"). Also put frames around the image galleries in the hopes of making navigation easier. Let me know if anything weird shows up.

Ben and I drove up to Sandia Peak a couple of days ago. (That is to say, he was doing the driving.) Here are pictures!

Also, can anyone identify this insect? They were all over the place.

If you've spent any time in LA then you know that it feels less like a coherent city and more like a big amoebalike sprawl of different cities, languages and lifestyles, oftentimes spilling into each other at the edges. That's something I find fascinating about it ( Read more... )

I'm in Albuquerque now, spending the rest of the month with Ben -- probably the longest stretch of time we've had together since grad school started. He's been busy with school/grading and I've been raiding his campus library for research material and we've generally just been doing mundane things together and enjoying the spectacular New Mexico ( Read more... )

Have you used Flickr? What do you think of it? What's it good at, what's it bad at? What sort of funky stuff have you done with it? And what's up with that map thingAlso how customizable is the site design? (Not LJ-style insane tweakability, obviously but can you at least change the background color ( Read more... )

Hey, looks like I'm on the alumni e-newsletter -- guess that MA counted for something after all. Fundraiser calls will be interesting ( Read more... )

I'm breaking my month long streak of consistent notposting with a link:

On making 911 calls from cell phones.
(Posted by labile, a 911 dispatcher in Florida.)

Quick FYI for AIMmers - I'll be in Berkeley until probably Tuesday and internet may be scarce. See you next week!

I'm on campus right now. It's really quiet without all the students around -- I should do this more often. Yeah, right. :)