Last night I made peanut butter syrup (analogous to chocolate syrup). Adams PB, ~1 cup; water, sugar, and about a teaspoon of soy lecithin granules. The lecithin might not even be as necessary as I think. My goals for this project are to learn how to work with lecithin, and to put this syrup into a latte for a WRONG MOCHA.

MixMeister Fusion, the ( Read more... )

As I've sought out more complex tasks in web development to keep me interested, the amount of time I spend despairing that I can't fix bugs has gone up

The new Interpol album is not as good as I'd hoped

No time

"You see how the game goes on. We land and alter things, and build and ( Read more... )

I am confusing myself with the actual person who has this account

But, to give myself some fair chance of catching up, I will be reading along using Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by artist Zak Smith.

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so when do we start the season for the Northwest Invitational Giant Icehouse League?

Thursday afternoon my lower back muscles started saying "yeah, fuck you" pretty loud, and have not really stopped although for the last two days it's been a lot quieter. I find that this kind of thing takes up about two thirds of my brain until I recover, so my productivity has gone down even more than it would normally ("normally" meaning on ( Read more... )

According to TurboTax at the moment, I owe exactly $2 in federal taxes.


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I shouldn't give this away, but lordy, Stumptown Annex has these "mini-lots" of a bunch of Kenyan coffees just hanging out across from the counter in plastic tubs. They're only selling them on weekends. They aren't crazy expensive, but they are crazy good. Coffee lovers who aren't some sort of anti-body-and-richness communists should swing by ( Read more... )

Thursday night, 7:30, Vino Vixens. It looks like this on the outside and this on the inside. Seriously, look at that second one.

Thursday night, after 9:30: if you are just getting to the party at this point, give a call first. We may have to move it if VV has to charge us to stay open. Or we may just go ahead and pay them. So call.

Friday: landing ( Read more... )