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Monthly Archives: April 2009

We Like Neal

Friday, April 10, 2009

I got Neal Stephenson’s Anathem for my birthday earlier this year, and have recently finished reading it. Awesome stuff. D. and I had previously read the Baroque Cycle together, but I recently realised that she hadn’t experienced any other of his books, so we binged on audio versions of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. [...]

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Curry + Beer

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Just finished the curry. Wow, so much better the next day. Amazing that you can cook the bejeesus out of it and still have the potatoes hold their shape… especially when they’ve absorbed so much of the sauce. And plenty for leftovers, too! I think I’m going to go on a braised food bender, because [...]

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Two Meals

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Tonight I cooked twice. I didn’t plan for that to happen… it just did. D. had gone shopping during the day, and bought enough to make lamb cutlets on a bed of fusilli with a garlic and wine tomato sauce (one of our favourites), and to make a hearty Indian curry. Curry is so much [...]

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A Bit of History

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

I checked my personal records. I purchased my first-generation, “stick’o’gum” iPod shuffle on Saturday April 23, 2005. It probably cost $150 or something outrageous like that. On the same day, we ate barbequed corn and “shaking beef”, played “Lost Cities” and “Carcassonne”, played the demo of “Meteos” on the DS and watched “Iron Chef”, which [...]

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Stick of Gum

Monday, April 6, 2009

How I loved my 1GB shuffle. It was the first generation “stick o’ gum” model. Nothing more than a slickly-designed USB memory stick with playback controls and a headphone jack. But perfect for holding enough podcasts to get me to work and back again, and then some. More recent models have gone down the minituarisation [...]

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Dead Shuffle

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Gak, my iPod Shuffle just died. I usually listen to a podcast while cleaning up after dinner, to distract me from the fact that D. is watching some American Soap Opera or other. No luck tonight – just a flashing orange light. Thinking the battery low, I plugged it into the old iMac for a [...]

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