Lazy-Ass Gourmet

July 21, 2012 – 12:00

The art of cooking Fast, Cheap, Clean

Why aren’t you cooking for yourself? Do you think it’s too expensive? Do you think you don’t know how to cook? Or do you just think you don’t have enough time in the day? If any of those are your excuse, you’re about to lose them. Cooking great food isn’t that difficult once you have a few basic dishes, and with the right recipes, you can be cooking great dinners for yourself or your family in half an hour. This is lazy-ass gourmet, and we’re going to cook the most fantastic meals in no time at all.

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Sitting at home, listening to Beethoven, thinking of Maenee

April 25, 2013 – 20:37

The fire in your eyes sets my heart aflame

the spark that lights the tinder in my soul
which, bereft of the waters of love, dried
but did not blow away. Waiting,
instead, to flame up, ’till, engulfed with passion,
the detritus burned away leaving
fertile fields to sow the tears of your beauty.

Nurtured by the passions of our love,
tended by the tender touch we share,
blooming in a garden we share
in my breast, my mind.

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National Gallery, West Building

March 18, 2013 – 09:51

Art in the halls art on the walls
Paintings and sculpture oh my
A Garden inside to read if you will
Galleries filled for the eyes

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7th ave between the square and the park

March 14, 2013 – 19:03
I walk her streets alone, awake; I walk her streets with friends. Alive we feel some million folks enjoying her embrace.

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Readable d3

February 25, 2013 – 20:26

d3 example code is horribly convoluted, depending on dozens of unstructured variables (and often some global magic) to achieve even the simplest effects. To improve the readability of my d3 projects, I’ve introduced a Canvas container, with the most commonly used properties conveniently encapsulated in a single object. Combined with mbostocks discussion in Towards Reusable Charts, the canvas container can be used in nearly any project to greatly improve the structure and quality of d3 code.

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This Rationalist’s World-View

January 10, 2013 – 22:32

The myriad parameters to support human life are nearly all emergent.

Look out in the night sky. How many stars do you see? (In the suburbs, maybe 2000). How many of those are actually galaxies? About a dozen. How many planets can you see? 5. How many stars do our telescopes see, in the Milky Way? 300 billion. Galaxies? 170 billion. Planets? Nearly 1000 confirmed (ok, only a dozen or so extra solar have been directly imaged) and another 2,000 awaiting data analysis, and we are literally just getting started. The latest analysis estimates 100 billion planets in the milky way (one every three stars, but more like 3 – 5 every 10 stars, given the way planetary systems form). 17 billion or so of those are probably Earth-like (rocky, with masses between Mars and ~1.5x Earth).

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Observers? In *my* syntax?

December 7, 2012 – 08:13

Modern graphical programming is dependent on the observer pattern. Its use in Model-View-Controller architectures vaulted the pattern into widespread use. Its continues to find applicability in event and interrupt based systems. The underlying conceptual pattern is astounding. In traditional APIs, the user is allowed to call library code arbitrarily, but there is no mechanism for a library to call user space code. While this is somewhat obviated by extensive callback usage, having formally defined and documented locations where library code calls user code is a great boon in large-scale software architectures. The observer pattern provides such a mechanism. In short, observers are great. How can they be worked even tighter into a coding environment?

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Election 2012: Referendum on War

August 31, 2012 – 12:06

All domestic policies will be for nothing if Israel starts a war with Iran.

The Economy is on everyone’s mind, but the economy’s not going to change overnight (so says Ryan, and I can agree on that point). The Environment is in serious danger of long-term damage that will make it materially more difficult for us as a species to prosper. Our Education system has many calling for a complete overhaul, but that will take years before our best and brightest children are able to make positive changes from such changes.

These are all long-term issues which are critical to building a bright future, and require serious thought in the mid-term.

These will be for nothing if Israel attacks Iran.

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Salmon Bake

July 27, 2012 – 12:00

Fresh fish feels fantastically filling. This salmon bake is great year round, but an especially nice light summer dish.

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Spaghetti

July 25, 2012 – 12:00

The quickest Italian dish ever. If you can’t cook this, you shouldn’t cook. (Actually, you should try it a few more times and figure out how to cook.) If you can’t make this tasty, try a couple more times.

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Chili

July 23, 2012 – 12:00

Cold day or hot, nothing quite says tasty like a bowl of home-made chili. Probably the easiest dish to take and make your own, so many easy things go into the flavors of a pot of easy chili, you can’t help but not experiment with this recipe!

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