Jersey City Travelogue

November 30th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Art, Home, Travelogues |

Hav­ing found a gain­ful con­sult­ing gig with Big Finan­cial Firm in Jer­sey City. Any time I’m in a new neigh­bor­hood I like to go explor­ing, and found that “Joisey City” has some really nice qualities.

Skyline View

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And The Winners Are…

November 30th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Home |

Last night was the annual Colum­bia Field Hockey din­ner. I was sur­rounded by win­ners, lit­er­ally. The woman on my left won a bot­tle of wine. Car­olyn won a fam­ily pass to the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum. And Claire, the field hockey star, got her certificate.

The Winners

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I Was Just Wondering

November 28th, 2006 | 4 Comments | Food |

Is there a word for the feel­ing you get when you get too much wasabi at once and if feels like your sinuses are about to burst into flames? What if some­one made a wasabi slurpee — could you get that and a brain-freeze at the same time?

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Blog Roundup

November 21st, 2006 | 0 Comments | Home, Music, Politics |

Check out Jim Buchanan’s blog­ging from Sloan-Kettering, and the updated Lit­er­ary Cafe site. Mean­while, Jaded is run­ning a multi-part fea­ture on the bad news from the Veteran’s Admin­is­tra­tion health sys­tem.

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Bread

November 19th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Food, Home |

Back when I started cook­ing, I used to try to make bread. The recipes I tried were a tremen­dously time-consuming, labor-intensive strug­gle against the ingre­di­ents, and I never quite won. Thanks to the NY Times’ Min­i­mal­ist col­umn last Wednes­day, I found a winner.

Loaf of Bread

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Misplaced Trust

November 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Food |

We’ve become big fans of the “Trader Joe’s” fran­chise around here. Good qual­ity, great prices, friendly ser­vice. I needed part of a bot­tle of red wine for a recipe I was mak­ing, and they had a spe­cial on bot­tles from the Robert Shaw vine­yard. Yes, the “Jaws” guy. Think­ing maybe he was doing the slumming […]

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South Mountain in Autumn

November 11th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Home, Travelogues |

This after­noon Brandy and I enjoyed a warm sunny day walk­ing through some of the scenic envi­rons of South Moun­tain Reser­va­tion. One of our favorite spots has always been Hem­lock Falls. After the three inches of rain ear­lier this week, this 35-foot cas­cade was in fine form.

Falls from a distance

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Birthday Greetings

November 9th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Uncategorized |

Yes, a big tom​-mcgee​.com birth­day greet­ing goes out today to Anthony Car­touche, child­hood friend and co-publisher of the renowned blog Waf­fle Ass. Take a moment to visit and send your best to AC, espe­cially since this is one of those big ending-in-a-zero birth­day years.

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Night On Bald Mountain

November 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

I thought I should write a post on the elec­tion, but what can I write that isn’t being writ­ten bet­ter some­where else in the blo­gos­phere? It’s a beau­ti­ful thing, though. But try talk​ing​pointsmemo​.com, because I don’t have the time right now.

Instead, here’s a com­plete track of

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Night On Bald Moun­tain, from The Broad­way Bach Ensemble’s Hal­loween Con­cert of last Sun­day. Dig that brass section.

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Get Out And Vote

November 5th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Politics |

As you all know, Tues­day is a big one. Midterm elec­tions have his­tor­i­cally crappy turnout rates, and every­thing hinges on which side gets more of its peo­ple out to the polls. Watch out for the lat­est tac­tic being wheeled out by the GOP: harass­ing phone calls, designed to seem as though they’re from the Demo­c­ra­tic side. […]

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I Like XAMPP

November 3rd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

A guy at a free­lance gig I recently had showed me this pack­age, and it’s very cool. It’s a nice pack­age that con­tains Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, FTP and a send­mail clone, all in one easy-to-install file. I sup­pose it’s old-hat to a lot of techno types, but hav­ing been in a Windows-only hot­house for […]

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