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Monday, February 08, 2010 :::
 


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Last night, during the last two minutes of the Super Bowl, as Peyton Manning was struggling to mount one of his famous comebacks, there was an unexpected knock at the door. Kate opened it to find Geoff Davis standing there. While the Colts sputtered and ran out of gas, Geoff sat in our rocking chair, and we started to catch up, not having seen him in about three and half years. He's passing through, on his way to a farm in Missouri. We stayed up long after the game was over, talking.

Here we all are when we were young and pretentious, reading our poems in the basement of a coffeehouse in Normal, Illinois.



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How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com: "“This wasn’t done to help Dave or to help Jay,” Mr. Burnett said, “though I think it does help both of them. It was just done because Dave thought it would be funny and would entertain people. Nothing went beyond that.”"


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Thursday, February 04, 2010 :::
 


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Regents Approve New Sites for Hancher, UI School of Music | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News: "Building the School of Music downtown is contingent on the UI negotiating to purchase that private property downtown. If UI officials are not able to reach agreement by April, they will instead move forward with a backup plan to build the School of Music near the rebuilt Hancher."


::: Regents Approve New Sites for Hancher, UI School of Music | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News posted by kiyote23
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 :::
 

It's amazing how music can take you back twenty years in a heart beat.



::: REM 6-9-84 Passaic 05. Harbor Coat posted by kiyote23
::: at 2/03/2010 11:21:00 AM
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Thanks to Merlin for passing this along.



::: REM - So. Central Rain posted by kiyote23
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 :::
 

I received a copy of The Silver Spoon cookbook for my birthday, and since this weekend, we've busted out two recipes from it: Chicken in Olives; and Pork Chops in Cream.  Both were simple, yet very tasty.  The pork chops in particular stand out for their outstanding sauce, and I thought I'd share how we cribbed it down to two servings with you.

First, tenderize your two pork chops with your handy meat tenderizer.  Then heat some butter and olive oil in a skillet, then cook the chops until they are evenly browned on both sides, about 6 minutes a side.  Remove them from the skillet, drain, and then keep warm.  De-glaze the skillet with just a little more than a quarter cup of port, using a wooden spoon to scrape up all the little porky bits.  Reduce by about half, then stir in a half cup heavy cream and a half teaspoon flour.  Season with salt and pepper and let cook for about five more minutes before spooning the sauce over the chops and serving.

Seriously, if you've got a bottle of port that's been lurking in the back of your fridge, waiting for some love, then you need to give this a try.





::: Pork Chops in Cream posted by kiyote23
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Bloom County Comic Strip
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Monday, February 01, 2010 :::
 

GameSpy: Ask Iwata: How Twin Peaks Influenced Zelda - Page 1: "I was talking about fashioning Link's Awakening with a feel that was somewhat like Twin Peaks. At the time, Twin Peaks was rather popular. The drama was all about a small number of characters in a small town.

So when it came to Link's Awakening, I wanted to make something that, while it would be small enough in scope to easily understand, it would have deep and distinctive characteristics."


::: GameSpy: Ask Iwata: How Twin Peaks Influenced Zelda - Page 1 posted by kiyote23
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Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko: "The keyboard dock sports a few extra iPad buttons, for reaching the Home screen, Photos, Search, and a Mystery Unlabeled White Button that I didn’t press for fear that a poison dart would be fired from the middle of the screen into my neck."


::: Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko posted by kiyote23
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Sunday, January 31, 2010 :::
 

Bloom County Comic Strip
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Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?: "What’s Hulu going to do? Sit there and wait? Whine about the blue boxes? Or do the practical thing and write software that delivers video to iPhone OS? The answer is obvious. Hulu doesn’t care about what’s good for Adobe. They care about what’s good for Hulu. Hulu isn’t a Flash site, it’s a video site. Developers go where the users are."


::: Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? posted by kiyote23
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Saturday, January 30, 2010 :::
 

Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock: "People talk about Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, and I don't disagree that the man has a quasi-hypnotic ability to convince. There's another reality distortion field at work, though, and everyone that makes a living from the tech industry is within its tractor-beam. That RDF tells us that computers are awesome, they work great and only those too stupid to live can't work them."


::: Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future?Shock posted by kiyote23
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Daring Fireball: Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad:"That’s not to say there aren’t trade-offs involved. Car enthusiasts (and genuine experts like race car drivers) still drive cars with manual transmissions. They offer more control; they’re more efficient. But the vast majority of cars sold today are automatics. So too it’ll be with computers. Eventually, the vast majority will be like the iPad in terms of the degree to which the underlying computer is abstracted away. Manual computers, like the Mac and Windows PCs, will slowly shift from the standard to the niche, something of interest only to experts and enthusiasts and developers."


::: Daring Fireball: Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad posted by kiyote23
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log @ Make Data Make Sense >> The Minesweeper Machine:"I don’t have a good name for this new type of device that isn’t quite a computer. John Gruber made a good analogy to the introduction of automatic transmissions in cars. They made cars a lot easier to drive, but also a more difficult to tinker with, a little less powerful. Maybe we should call these new devices automatic computers.

Whatever we call them, I think they are the future, and conventional computers will in time be relegated to a category of device only computing professionals use. As a computing professional, that’s not exactly a happy thought for me. But as a computer user, that’s great. When I’m not moving files around to do some serious computing, I’d like nothing more than for the filesystem to disappear, for all other applications to quit, and for my focus to be entirely on what I’m doing."


::: log @ Make Data Make Sense ? The Minesweeper Machine posted by kiyote23
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