tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61676132011-04-21T21:52:52.223-05:00not the rhinoi just don't know yet.kathynoreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1111464937565712372005-03-21T22:13:00.000-06:002005-05-23T22:53:14.590-05:00Recent (as of March, when I postponed and abandoned this entry) fun things/places/people described in two sentences or less (reviews for the impatient.) The futureheads: I saw them, weeks ago at the Double Door in Chicago. They were good, bouncy fun!Washington DC: Wow, is there a lot of marble in DC. I think I notice that every time I go there, but it is really true. Tryst: There is one kathynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1108445817845308852005-02-14T22:42:00.000-06:002005-02-14T23:36:57.853-06:00I keep paying for the idea of coffee.A bit of meta-blogging, at first, if I may. I'm not sure why, but I'm not very good at updating this website. I read other people's great sites and then I think: "Oh, I wish I had a cool site like that," and sometimes I even absentmindedly check my own site to see if it has been updated... maybe by helpful elves. I get to this page and I think: "Still no new kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1104942473927897892005-01-05T10:13:00.000-06:002005-01-05T10:27:53.926-06:00I am almost home!
... wherever home is, these days. When you have a toothbrush in as many cities as I do (I count three at the moment) it's a little hard to feel completely home. I am almost back to my mailing address, though, and that should count for something.
Miles traveled over this Christmas break:
Chicago to Pittsburgh -- 450 miles
Pittsburgh to Rochester (to the spoons-fam) -- 300
kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1102053478336566792004-12-02T23:57:00.000-06:002004-12-03T01:59:40.173-06:00Thanksgiving Recap:
Yay! Stefan and I had two short/long car trips back and forth to Cleveland. The were of the six or seven hour variety, but the time flies when you talk as much and as fast as us, and listen to good music and have snacks. We also got to enjoy some of the Chicago nightlife with T&L before Stefan had to go back to NYC. No worries - he will be back soon.
News I have been kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1098209930252740482004-10-19T13:52:00.000-05:002004-10-19T13:18:50.253-05:00Melted electronics smell bad...
My laptop adpater inexplicably fried itself last week, so all the pictures that I have that I want to post are sitting on my laptop, which is about as functional as a brick. I ordered a new adapter on ebay, so when it gets here, there will be pictures galore!
Until then, here's a bunch of recipes I keep meaning to link to:
Labor day end-of-summer menu:
Start kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1097354161577629972004-10-09T15:04:00.000-05:002004-10-09T15:36:01.576-05:00Time to move, for real
It is a beautiful bright day in Chicago. After staying over at T & L's last night, I have been walking around through some of the various neighborhoods on a quest to find Chicago's best coffee places. Today's goal was to find someplace with free wireless access, so that I can "do work."
Having found a place with free wireless, of course, I've just been reading J's trip tokathynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1096442750024349392004-09-29T02:25:00.000-05:002004-09-29T02:25:50.023-05:00Here are the new Mom and Dad, Candace and John! kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1096442179182944532004-09-28T22:16:00.000-05:002004-09-29T02:22:34.313-05:00Here's a cute picture of Steve and Caitlyn on their wedding day! Caity is the little sister of my brother John's friend-since-he-was-little, Landon. (Did you get that?) That made for an especially fun wedding and reception, since I already knew the bride's brother and sister, etc. It was also nice that Caity's family lives (literally!) down the street from my Mom, so most people didn't have to kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1096311951016148662004-09-27T20:49:00.000-05:002004-09-28T02:19:41.626-05:00This just in!
It was a big weekend for my family. My step-brother Steve got married on Friday (my mom's husband's son) and my brother John became a new Dad. Isabella Katherine was born to John and Candace early in the morning on September 24. I am an aunt!
I will have some wedding and baby pictures soon, I promise.
It was also a weekend of crazy travelling for me -- with two L's or one! eitherkathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1086746399830875762004-09-26T22:52:00.000-05:002004-09-27T00:50:08.696-05:00Links that are not for the tender ears:
An oldie but goodie.
And: Is that what you want?
They're some old flash movies from Brunching Shuttlecocks -- I think of the first one every so often and it's a pain in the booty to google because I can never remember much about it. I know it has some association with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, one of the characters is an egg roll, and it has a great kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1092370961376742292004-08-12T23:13:00.000-05:002004-08-12T23:25:38.826-05:00Once you pop, you can't stop...
I was talking to a friend about the weekend today, and he has to go to a croquet engagement party (whoo hoo hoo!) on Saturday and a baby shower on Sunday.
Me: Yup. That's what happens when you get old. All this wedding/baby business.
Him: I thought it was going to be a rough year that way, and then [his woman] said it's not just going to be this year.
Me: You kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1089689848638154682004-07-12T22:37:00.001-05:002004-07-12T23:11:44.596-05:00Nothing has happened since I last updated.
Wait, that's not true. I have been many places, and done many things. Rather than try to summarize it all, I have a few photos for now, to tide you over.
(I'm using a new photo thing, called Hello. You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.)
Here's some bathroom graffiti from a lovely cafe in Madison, Wisconsin. The Heisenberg joke is midly kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1085270398575440542004-05-22T17:34:00.000-05:002004-05-23T17:24:28.233-05:00Some people get their eyes poked out by birds
Here at the lab, I have lots of pets. Not in the house, mind you.
#1: Buffalos. I have lots of pet buffalos. You can see them in a previous post. Well, I guess they're not really my buffalos, but I do say hello to them everyday, so we're sort of developing a bond.
#2: Geese. The lab is pretty much infested with geese. They hang out near the liquid kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1085025494058818752004-05-19T22:46:00.000-05:002004-05-19T22:58:14.056-05:00Etiquette rules for digital times
From Nerve:
How far removed should an acquaintance be before it’s acceptable to fool around with their significant other?
If the person in question is dating one of your friends that you would instant message, I would suggest you don’t hook up with them. But if it’s someone you know through another avenue, like Friendster, then you’re in the clear.
So only kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1084852226368366722004-05-17T21:10:00.000-05:002004-05-17T22:50:51.353-05:00Where the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio come together
This last weekend I was in Pittsburgh to visit spoons, and we did a few fun things. We grilled fishes, using the ever-fabulous James Peterson Fish & Shellfish book as a guide. We did a little garden planning for spoons & his neighbors. We had good Vietnamese food at Tram's -- spoons said if it was on his block, he would eat there every weekkathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1077386484183139182004-05-16T12:54:00.000-05:002004-05-22T12:40:07.350-05:00Do it yo' self.
In Ann Arbor, there are lots of things that I have gotten attached to, that just don't exist in Batavia.
Thing 1: Good bread. I used to live on the same block as Zingerman's so I could walk there and get a fresh loaf of bread whenever. Or a half loaf. They are always nice about such things.
Now, there's OK bread at the grocery store nearby, but I think I can do better. I kathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1082040789139588322004-05-15T10:19:00.000-05:002004-05-15T10:31:54.426-05:00A great This American Life:
A man stops producing testosterone due to a medical condition, and they don't figure out for four months what the problem is. He says:
"Everything that I identify as being me: my ambition, my interest in things, my sense of humor, the inflection in my voice, I mean the quality of my speech even changed in the time that I was without a lot of the hormone. Yes, the kathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1084376827046846242004-05-12T10:33:00.000-05:002004-05-12T12:21:13.370-05:00Oh, give me a home...
That's right. Those are baby buffalos. With their momma buffalos. Or buffalo. Or, more correctly, perhaps, "bison."
Here at the lab, we have our very own herd of american buffalo. I ride past them every morning & evening on my bike. Apparently, they are very special: They "have a reputation for being large and healthy animals and are much sought after by breeders."
Alsokathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1079384452974978552004-04-14T22:15:00.000-05:002004-04-14T22:19:57.530-05:00Oh, how I weep for that badness in me...
Yesterday I posted a cute note that I found. Here are some more found love notes, if a bit late for valentine's. A few bad. A few good. The Atticus one makes me glad I'm not in high school anymore...
And speaking of love: Dan Savage got a marriage certificate! Not to marry his partner of ten years, who he raises a kid with, no no no... with a kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1081441973085577652004-04-13T21:30:00.000-05:002004-05-12T12:48:41.363-05:00No two people are not on fire.
I found a lovely, tiny yellow post-it note on the floor. In a wispy scripty hadwriting, it says:
B-
I hope you have a beautiful day! Thoughts of you and last night are already all I can think about. I love you so much!
(heart) me
Whoa. Hells yeah.
And this, from the NY Times, which most of you have probably seen already:
Ms. Rice said she believed that a memo kathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1081266058603284872004-04-06T22:25:00.000-05:002004-04-06T22:29:47.796-05:00Who's your DADDY?
from Salon:
Mr. Formality: At a press conference on Iraq and the 9/11 commission, President Bush snapped at an Associated Press reporter who failed to address him as "Mr. President." "Sir, in regard to --" began the AP journo, who was interrupted mid-query by Bush. "Who are you talking to?" asked the president, prompting the reporter to stammer out "Mr. President" and Matt kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1081219808684040902004-04-05T21:24:00.000-05:002004-04-05T22:15:18.233-05:00There's more bread in the blender than usual...
A few food links, before I forget them:
I have yet to try these three recipes, but they come highly recommended.
1) Scallops with a complicated lemongrass sauce -- this was described to me as "one of the best things I've ever made" by a foodie physics professor.
2) Easy and yummy salmon with brown sugar, lime, & chiles, from the Whole Foods kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1081139604727706322004-04-04T23:13:00.000-05:002004-04-17T19:27:55.420-05:00Oysters are not for breakfast.
Note to self: when you think "breakfast food," oysters are not really something that should come to mind. Why, you ask, would the thought even enter my silly, sleep-deprived brain? (Stupid Daylight Saving Time!)
Well, a bunch of the Chicago crew and I had brunch this morning at the Signature Room, which is on the 95th floor of the Hancock Tower. It was a kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1079556052573470402004-03-25T22:26:00.000-06:002004-03-25T22:30:03.560-06:00Small juicy bits
I have some links that I've saved for myself that I need to just put up on this blog... I meant to write more exciting copy for them, but here they are...
If you haven't seen it yet, Move On's got a great new video where, as my housemate Kate put it, you can see Rumsfeld get a big fat bitch slap. Nice.
Also for the politically-minded, Nature magazine (which is a well-respectedkathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1078610452526319402004-03-06T16:00:00.000-06:002004-04-05T00:00:33.920-05:00Morroccan Vegetable Tagine
adapted from Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian
serves 8
for tagine:
6 Tablespoons olive oil
1-2 large onions, finely chopped
6 garlic cloves peeled and finely chopped
1 14.5 oz can of chick peas
1 28 oz can of chopped tomatoes (I like Muir Glen)
3 medium waxy potatoes (red skin or yukon gold), peeled and cut into 1" pieces
1/2 cup finely chopped parsley
1/2 cup kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1077924859748609772004-02-27T17:28:00.000-06:002004-02-27T17:37:32.763-06:00Aw....
Check out these photos from SF! They literally made me cry. (Make sure to click "Next" on the bottom left to continue.) I like the one with the two babies. And the line outside city hall.
There were two good Salon articles about gay marriage this week, too:
"You can't imagine what it's like from a distance. Straight or gay, visitors get teary when they walk inside City Hall, where the kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1077853538165045692004-02-26T21:20:00.001-06:002004-02-27T17:27:43.293-06:00Plus ça change...
Here's a poem, that I remembered enjoying a long time ago.
A Late Aubade
You could be sitting now in a carrel
Turning some liver-spotted page,
Or rising in an elevator-cage
Toward Ladies' Apparel.
You could be planting a raucous bed
Of salvia, in rubber gloves,
Or lunching through a screed of someone's loves
With pitying head,
Or making some unhappy setter
Heel, or kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1077330492183121582004-02-20T20:05:00.000-06:002004-02-20T21:17:00.216-06:00Mathematical vegetables and physicist jokes
First, I direct you to a beautiful cabbage. Wow!
Here's a bit more plant science.
And... in a further attempt to connect math and food, I bring you
A Technical Approach to Pancakes and Kansas (complete with IHOP reference!) This topic was mentioned in a physics seminar I heard this week. The speaker, James Bjorken, was comparing the flatness of kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1076470153883179062004-02-18T21:50:00.000-06:002004-02-21T12:07:22.733-06:00Tonight, I am all superlatives.
Here's a recipe for perhaps the best pasta sauce, in the world!
from Fine Cooking, perhaps the best cooking magazine, in the world!
for 8 oz pasta (i love Rustichella's handmade orecchiette for this! Penne is also good, but anything works.)
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 small yellow onion, finely chopped
2 small cloves garlic, minced
2 cups canned crushed tomatoeskathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1076601571136936662004-02-12T11:39:00.000-06:002004-02-13T11:42:54.590-06:00 Dan Savage rocks: "Hey, Everybody: The Stranger's seventh annual Pre-Valentine's Day Bash is a wild party for the single and the bitter and their friends and supporters. Bring mementos from failed relationships and we'll destroy them for you live on-stage! Smash! Purge! Heal! Thursday, Feb 12, 7 PM, at Chop Suey."kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1076560050970732212004-02-11T21:42:00.000-06:002004-04-06T22:09:10.263-05:00This webpage seems destined to become a recipe repository for things I like to cook. Why fight the power?
Winter Vegetable Soup
adapted from the New Basics Cookbook (Rosso & Lukins)
(it's my favorite cookbook!)
serves 4-6
total time: about an hour, plus lots of chopping.
special eqiupment: blender or food processor
4 slices bacon, cut into 1" pieces
3 Tablespoons unsalted butter
2 cups finely kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1076372699154448062004-02-09T18:00:00.000-06:002004-02-11T21:43:45.560-06:00Howdy. I report from a new location. New office, new house -- all that!
The most exciting part of my drive here yesterday was eating a whole pear. All of it! (almost.) Usually, I leave the core and the seeds and the little string that connects the stem to the core... but not yesterday. I was driving, and there was really nowhere to put the leftover pear remains. So I ate them! Bwah hah hah.
kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1076084145765895962004-02-06T11:34:00.000-06:002004-02-06T11:34:20.623-06:00Quote of the day
"I think he's run the country into the ground economically, and he comes out with these crazy ideas like going to Mars and going to the moon," said Richard Bidlack, a 78-year-old retiree from Boonton, N.J., who says he voted for Bush in 2000. "I'm so upset at Bush, I'll vote for a chimpanzee before I vote for him." (from Salon.com News)kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1075846446700412902004-02-03T22:32:00.000-06:002004-02-06T11:31:22.093-06:00A strangely American Superbowl Sunday
I knew that this Superbowl Sunday would be different after my trip to the co-op on Sunday afternoon. First of all, they were playing Bruce Springsteen. At the co-op. Not that I have anything against Bruce -- quite the opposite -- but the co-op is the kind of place that's usually playing something like the White Stripes or Stereolab or Miles Davis or Sleater kathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1075436546376667452004-01-29T22:22:00.000-06:002004-01-29T22:29:05.340-06:00Expensive for pasta, but not expensive for food.
I went to this pasta class at Zingerman's last night. We tasted fancy pastas and the usual cheap kind. I was surprised to be able to taste the difference. The usual pasta tastes bitter in the aftertaste, and it doesn't hold sauces as well, since the surface is all slippery. Want to know more? Here's everything you wanted to know about pasta and akathynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167613.post-1070574247870183272003-12-04T15:44:00.000-06:002003-12-04T15:45:14.343-06:00hello world.kathynoreply@blogger.com0