Saturday, January 28, 2012
This is what I threw together for last night’s dinner and I think it turned out really well. Sort of a Thai curry for wusses. Recipes like this are proof that “vegan” and “healthy” don’t always have to overlap. Stir-fry: 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp sesame oil 1 package cubed super firm tofu, drained, [...]
Kara felt like chicken noodle soup, so I gave it a try. I think this turned out pretty darn well. 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp vegan margarine (or butter) 1 large onion, diced 4 small celery stalks, chopped 3 medium carrots, chopped 8 cups water 2 tbsp Better Than Bouillon imitation chicken [...]
Readers of this blog may not be aware that 4d2.org is not just where I post my crappy personal screeds; it’s also a hosting provider. Last month I posted the message below on our front page, and I’d like to repost it here as the US Congress prepares to resume its legislative session for the [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
I’ve written about 25 blog entries over the past several years that I’ve never published because I didn’t think they were good enough. So, for New Year’s, I’m cleaning them up and clearing out my backlog of drafts. Roger Ebert, who for some reason has one of the smartest and most consistently readable blogs on [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Ardent followers of this blog (all three of you) will remember that Kara and I used to live in Frederick, Maryland, just down 3rd Street from a great little local restaurant called That Cuban Place. Unfortunately, their landlord was a crappy absentee landlord like most of the landlords in Frederick, and allowed their building to [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
I am a geek, and this extends to my home environment. By this I mean that the number of DHCP leases in our household exceeds the number of humans by a factor of 7. I spend a lot of money on things with blinking lights, and at least a few of these things have keyboards. [...]
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Or at least, some significant portion of the U.S. population seems not to. I think there have been some really disturbing trends in U.S. politics recently, and when I look the social forces behind those changes I can’t help but get the feeling that a large portion of Americans are increasingly unconcerned with the factual [...]
I have a bit of an infatuation with the Commodore 64, a 1980s icon and still the best-selling computer ever made according to the Guinness Book of Records. I think it’s just about the perfect home computer: it’s capable of high-resolution graphics, it has a nice keyboard, it’s compact, it has enough memory for most [...]
Sometimes I envy our cat a little bit, at least where food is concerned. Kara pours food out of a bag and into a bowl for her, she eats it whenever she’s hungry, and it keeps her healthy and fit. Maybe that sounds strange since food is supposed to be such a romantic thing. In [...]
This is something I meant to post a long time ago, one of my “lazy recipes.” It’s an idea I had when Kara and I wanted crab cakes but were too cheap to purchase crab, and it’s really pretty simple — it’s just Maryland crab cakes made with cheap whitefish instead of crab, and a [...]