tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153315222024-03-07T01:02:07.763-08:00shoegazingMusings about life framed by an endless search for the perfect dhal recipe.ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-76725460250744970572009-05-14T16:56:00.000-07:002009-05-14T17:03:30.841-07:00Wolfram-where's my hash mark-AlphaWatch the screencast here.http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.htmlWho is David Ortiz? Too bad I have to wait until 7pm tomorrow to find out...I wish I didn't have plans tomorrow night.ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-14983092652722957712009-04-14T15:33:00.000-07:002009-04-14T16:28:48.019-07:00Fifteen minute ruleDoes that still count when you're 33? False alarm. Sigh. So yesterday Shiny and I bid adieu to the dear Mandy Patinkin. We will miss you and your sunny-cheeked baby (and your sunny-cheeked self), but hope springs eternal that one day I will visit Berlin. Rob asked me last night if I had ever said goodbye to anyone leaving New York, and, full of three thimbles of wine, I said no. Of courseymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-25029794643696789892009-03-14T05:52:00.000-07:002009-03-14T06:01:25.809-07:00It's all eu!I recently read a sad article about a French town that is going to change its name for better Google search results. The term "eu" is often searched, what with the European Union and the .eu web domain, but it's rarely for "the chief town of a canton situated close to the coast in the département of Seine-Maritime, in the region of Haute-Normandie; in the eastern part of Normandy and close to theymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-14068057990190102782009-02-03T15:20:00.000-08:002009-02-03T15:22:20.701-08:00Just when you think he couldn't get better...Obama=Future of open access. Basically, the President endorses a looser definition of "copyright." Publishers, beware!Copyright Notice Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. Except where otherwise noted, ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-80854564932914566702009-02-03T13:30:00.000-08:002009-02-03T13:38:26.022-08:00If a google calendar fell in the forest...Just in case you feel nervous about using Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader,and Picasa...here's an article about how to keep your nearest and dearest bits and bytes safe. And it's not that I don't understand the Great Eye potential of Google...I just like their cool tools. But the key here is that we shouldn't lose track of our personal information in the google clouds...http://ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-52501504222112256792009-01-30T13:56:00.000-08:002009-01-30T13:59:34.309-08:00Does anyone else think that Bill Keller is hot?Cuz I do.ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-56263864297427405462009-01-28T07:08:00.000-08:002009-01-28T07:54:14.837-08:00The doves like my powers...I am learning how to code!...slowly...I am going to learn how to do a table. Apparently "search" boxes are super hard. I will master it all. I mean webmaster it all.I will leave you with this, from "Elvis is Everywhere" by Mojo Nixon...You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?Down in the Bermuda TraingleElvis needs boats.Elvis needs boats.Elvis Elvis ElvisElvis Elvis ElvisElvis needs ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-35483366222058247432009-01-13T08:28:00.001-08:002009-01-13T08:59:29.910-08:00Thoughts on vertical farming...A 30-storey building producing enough foodstuffs to feed 50, 000 people? I think it sounds wonderful, but as Armando Carbonell noted in today's Times, "Would a tomato in lower Manhattan be able to outbid an investment banker for space in a high-rise? My bet is that the investment banker will pay more.”Wouldn't it be great if the economic downturn revolutionized the way that we thought about foodymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-51736407988918667922008-11-12T13:04:00.000-08:002008-11-12T13:06:54.999-08:00Yes, please!Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine Have you ever wished for a personal reference librarian, an information guru to point you to the most reliable sites whenever you search the Web? A new search-engine project aims to simulate something like that. The trick? Weighting search results so that librarians’ picks rise to the top. Called Reference Extract, the project isymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-61021621138576174102008-11-10T11:59:00.000-08:002008-11-10T12:32:35.326-08:00You don't say?Apparently, the luxury lifestyle industry is taking a bit of a hit during this recession.Seeing as I'm planning on making vats of hummus and serving Trader Joe's wine at my wedding, there isn't a lot of overlap between our worlds (other than a lovely equestrienne/40s movie star/Cinderella-style wedding gown, of course). Pity, maybe they could have helped me with my wedding-related questions. Can ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-41716285077805226582008-10-31T11:54:00.000-07:002008-10-31T11:55:24.286-07:00Corrigenda Fine, I can't do the backwards hand touch to the ground move, nor can I do the backwards running man.ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-32992172228981806862008-10-31T11:08:00.000-07:002008-10-31T11:49:44.708-07:00Only the sexy chairdancing peopleI'm sitting in my office and listening to "In a Big Country" on woxy.com and it was making me feel all teary because it's very earnest and hopeful. I wanted to hear it again, so I watched the video. Bad idea. Suffice it to say, I think there was a scavenger hunt. And the scavenger hunt map was titled, "Big Country."Videos totally suck. Except for the original Charlie. And Charlene.But wait. ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-5345694362988738242008-10-22T08:26:00.000-07:002008-10-22T09:04:50.911-07:00'Republicans, also seem to 'have opted for an anti-mind strategy,' Mr. McCumber said, adding that some of them 'seem to be in denial of obvious facts, such as the theory of evolution. How can you support that as an academic?'"This week in obvious news: "Donors From Academe Favor Obama by a Wide Margin" (http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i09/09a00101.htm).Usually I'm a sucker for the underdog, but Iymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-12100191675190860982008-09-26T06:17:00.000-07:002008-09-26T12:51:58.954-07:00God, the butterfly effect, and the mattress theory of bankingTreasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who observed the exchange. She ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-67305583552795273102008-09-12T06:52:00.001-07:002008-09-12T06:57:41.067-07:00Why won't the publishing industry just collapse on itself already?This should help. Or this.ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-13390141287280732462008-09-10T13:10:00.000-07:002008-09-10T13:13:52.362-07:00Ch-Ch-Check it out....Fingers crossed for dark matter!ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-39869512632252877972008-09-04T13:44:00.001-07:002008-09-04T13:56:39.477-07:002 bum sniffs and an almost kissI have very little to report in the continuing series, Cat Wars. Yesterday and today, Sarah attempted to familiarize herself with Tonio's bum in a hesitant, sniffy way. He's very proper, so he reacted with some hissing, spitting, and running away. Sarah, pictured here, is not proper at all, and ran after him. Then she ate some food (his), threw up, and cuddled me for comfort. She's just so ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-33947442177747867392008-09-02T12:32:00.000-07:002008-09-02T13:34:52.323-07:00Cat WarsI was doing research online about introducing cats to each other and surprisingly, I found conflicting advice. Internet, can you give me unified discourse on any topic, ever? So far, Tonio is hanging out in the front room and Sarah is hanging out in the bedroom and the office (and the neighbour's apartment in one botched escape attempt). Sarah's bed looks like the one in this picture, so I'm ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-84006580646060521882008-08-29T21:45:00.000-07:002008-08-29T21:55:30.232-07:00Two more sleeps......and it's cohabitation central. It's going to be great, I think, but different from what I'm imagining living together will be like. I'm thinking of my parents, circa age 60 and their lunchtime salads and always having dinner together, watching Jeopardy together, etc. Not so much with us. Between jobs and school, we'll be like roommates. And that's good, because I know how to live with ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-18047289040186540212008-08-27T11:23:00.000-07:002008-08-27T11:44:00.196-07:00A final kick in the pantsGoodbye, bastard stepchild of the MTA. Local trains don't actually have to go slower than express trains, conductors. Just more stops. So, I'm finally moving away from the C and F train combo of doom, right? I'm counting down the days (3 more sleeps!) and thinking I'm going to get away without waking the sleeping beast of diarrhea-sick passengers and track fires...but no. This morning, I was on ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-88624511431051832692008-08-26T08:58:00.000-07:002008-08-26T09:04:17.087-07:00Pain in my neck Kali is coming for you. To the a-hole who hit our car this morning near Jay St. and Flatbush, thanks. You left a piece of your car in the intersection in your hurry to speed away from the scene of your crime. I hope it was a crucial, expensive piece. I'm not wishing for your injury but who can argue with karma? ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-32306826831218425372008-05-01T10:39:00.000-07:002008-05-01T11:13:40.400-07:00Why I LOVE YouTube (seven years too late)Because of "Throw Your Arms Around Me", by Hunters & Collectors. Yeah, I know, no one has ever heard of it. But I remember it from my youth, and I remember it used to make me cry because it was so 'romantic'. Unfortunately I think I might have been about 15 when I heard it for the first time, and at that time my only outlet for romance and melty feelings was Wuthering Heights and imagining myymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-42547165401771337892008-04-03T07:06:00.000-07:002008-04-03T13:33:31.426-07:00My kind of fast foodI had huge craving for chicken curry one day and only half an hour to spare...so here it is. It won't look like this, but it's going to be GOOD, and you'll have time to watch half a Battlestar Galactica episode, shave your legs, and play fifteen games of Scrabulous (bastards!).Speedy Chicken Curry2 chicken thighs, boneless and skinless, and *organic, chopped into bite-sized pieces1 small onion, ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-81665902574311257442008-04-01T13:20:00.000-07:002008-04-01T13:22:01.135-07:00Rebrand!Or face irrelevance. ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15331522.post-1983633441205533962008-04-01T11:26:00.000-07:002008-04-01T13:27:47.554-07:00The black sheep will be queen!I was crossing Park Ave. today on 22nd street and I saw me at age 14. She was tall (the only difference) and wearing awkwardly tight (and unflattering) jeans that cut into her babyfat waist with a too-short but not skanky t-shirt (the kind you're always yanking down because you just realized it shrank that morning and nothing else was clean or you unwisely thought it would be fine and it would ymathewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451285504447536794noreply@blogger.com1