Chicken Goulash


Off topic – Golden Pacific

Chinese Broccoli Rice Noodles Spiced Tofu Shao Hsing Wine Pickled Baby Ginger Aji-Mirin Rice Wine Green Tea (left to right, top to bottom…) Most shopping ideas – from “Every Grain of Rice” by Fuschia Dunlop.


Today’s field test

Park wifi. N Ave. 1st. Speeds good beach side.


Dog Beach – Off Topic

Clip of the dogs on the “dog beach”. Nice long ride.


adblock annoyances test drive

Slowly driven insane by the “next item…” pop-ups at slate.com while making the rounds of my morning (ok, mid-morning) news roundup. Does this adblock addon list fit the bill or overly scorched earth? It’s a long list of things they block – facebook, twitter, country specific social networking annoyances… It is blocking the – SURPRISE! […]


Expedition to Armitage

More bean options. Prices -OK. For future reference – China Garden on Milwaukee south of Chicago Ave.


Down to the last serving – roasted lima’s segue to greek style

Just polishing these off this weekend. Original recipe – roasted lima from veg. cookbook. I liked the spicing – I think the balsamic made the most impact – but a little dry. Decided to use remaining roasted spiced lima’s for a batch of greek style beans – VERY TASTY.


I like those percentages – ssd failures…

I’ve been pointing clients to solid state drives (ssd) for a while now. I still believe dell.com & other vendors are charging too high a premium – but I like those percentages. Via slatedot.org: “SSD annual failure rates under warranty tend to be around 1.5%, while HDDs are near 5%”


Be careful out there folks

Fake malware warn droid. History repeats. Mobile advertising – they’re not validating what they’re pumping to handsets – lame. Sad. Not planning on following the links but if it’s biz. as usual – they’d either follow to asking for a credit card (to cover their costs to help me) or they’ll actually try to install […]


A few shots around the bridge

Hard rock replacement. “Chuck’s Manufacturing“? Ok. See the weeds? Kayaks. Sunday dinner via pioneer… I do the potatoes (braise 1st) in the pot. They’re good that way.