Friday, July 31, 2009

It's Either this or Valium...

Instead of self-medicating, I’ve been self-educating.

Since college is starting soon, I started to feel the pang of nostalgia: the bygone years of studying too hard, partying too hard, great friends… and onions. Slice ‘em, dice ‘em, sautéed, fried: sweet, sweet onions, make ‘em cry:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071400684.html?sid=ST2009071402785

A Holga may look like a cheap, plastic camera, but what it is really is an exercise in embracing uncertainty and accepting the limits of what you can and can’t control. Very Zen, right? The only thing blocking your path to Enlightenment is the %$(ing cost of getting the film developed and printed. So, digitally cheat you way to Nirvana:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atanguay/sets/72157594165111190/

The Japanese: so familiar, so foreign. American food in Japan: also familiar and foreign:
http://www.mangajin.com/mangajin/samplemj/japnfctn/japnfctn.htm

Thomas Jefferson was not an inventor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_jefferson

And something pretty cool my boss sent us:
http://videos.komando.com/2009/06/18/african-thunderstorm/

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Equal... and powerful

Bragg's Liquid Aminos = Patis for Hippies