I am too lazy to sort
I’m left to wonder how close these songs ripped an posted to YouTube are to the one on the original CD. This version sounds slightly sped up. A check on iTunes finds it 6 seconds shorter. Now I wonder if all the other tunes from this album have been altered from the original. That’s okay. As long as it moves your soul I’ll take it. Good music is good music.
Not on FaceBook and it doesn't even matter.Yeah, I miss lots of things. And probably even miss meeting that girl or some other girl from the past, but does it matter?Anti-social much? Maybe. It's most likely because I maintain this blog that I don't do FaceBook. I like writing here and don't want my blog to die if I spend tons of time writing over there. But I do wish to connect with old friends…http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.html
We’re onto the part of the album which I call the fly by states. Sometimes I listen to the songs. Sometimes I don’t. When I let the iPod play, when they come on, I won’t skip ahead. Yet, they all sound the same. Like I said previous, there’s a lot of latin rhythms on this album.
Network storage will become a bigger and important part of the home-consumer market with the adoption of tablet computers. Currently, iPad 2 maxes out its SSD drive with 64 GB worth of disk space. The Kindle and the Nook tablets are on the low end of storage, but Amazon wants you to use their cloud and perhaps Barnes and Noble does, too. Yet, as consumers go digital with their books, magazines, movies, television, and photos, there is going be a need for local storage.There are Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices already being sold, but it's not a category that the average consumer will know about. This area is ripe for someone with an Apple-like bent to come in and remake the market.Here's how I would make my own NAS appliance:First, wireless and wired. Allow it to be connected by a physical connection.Second, web browser interface. Configuration should be straightforward for the least tech savvy of users, but allow for as much customization under the hood for those techies.Third, hot swappable. Drop in a drive and it should be ready in a click of the mouse. Plus, the chassis for this thing should contain 1-10 drives slots, but are adapted by price point: cheap is 1 drive, expensive is 10 drives.Fourth, BYOD. The user can use any drive they want. Old 5200 RPM spinning platters? Go for it. SSD? Go for it. Mix and match. Do it.I know about Apple's own NAS, Time Capsule, but that is for Apple's backup use case. I'm talking about something for everyone. I'm sure that you'll be buying something of this type in the next year or so.
Liking Thievery Corporation means you have to like world music. You’ll be hearing lots of Brazilian rhythms. You’ll be hearing it a lot.
Here’s that individual eggplant lasagna. These are in mini-loaf pans.
I read about these small portion lasagnas the cooking for two issue of the Cooks Illustrated magazine. They baked the lasagna in a small loaf pan rather than a traditional pan. Since, I only cook for myself, that recipe looked interesting. I wanted to make a mini lasagna. The recipe was for a spinach white lasagna, and it had some béchamel as a sauce. That’s starting to get complicated. My recipe is going to be an eggplant lasagna.
I started with the sauce. I diced up some green, peppers, onions, and carrots which I sautéed in olive oil with some garlic. Once that was nice and tender, I added some chopped whole tomatoes and some tomato sauce. I let this simmer down. Adding some salt for taste.
I had some ricotta which I mixed with an egg, dried basil, and oregano. This is the cheese layer. Maybe I should’ve mixed some parmesan in here.
Once all this was done. I started to build my mini loaf pans with a lasagna. Easy bake lasagna noodles, the ricotta mixture, eggplant, then the tomato sauce. I was able to only put 2 of these layers in one mini loaf pan. I topped it off with some more tomato sauce; perhaps I should’ve put some cheese here, too.
I bake it in my oven pre-heated to 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Actually, it’s baking right now so I’ll let you know how it goes.
NabeYaki
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I give you Changmas!
Puts you in the holiday mood, doesn’t it? Now my browser window is slow as all get out.
The death of Flash can’t happen soon enough, but you’re still stuck with it. In fact, if you’re viewing this page, Flash is probably killing your browser.
For that, I apologize.
It’s because of me not you. I’m not writing enough posts to fill the gaps between the morning music break. I know that I wanted to write more at least a post a day in December. Except the posts all relate to that Thievery Corporation release from 2002. (Whoa! I thought it was 2003 release.) I was gonna put some filler in between, but I don’t want filler. I want well written posts on subjects that are worth writing about. Plus, link or quotes of the day. Yet, all I got are static YouTube videos of the cover to The Richest Man in Babylon.
What should I write?
