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Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:50:55 -0400

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes

I love Corey Arnold’s photographs. Check out his website...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:05:41 -0400

I love Corey Arnold’s photographs. Check out his website and this interview he did with NPR.

Cold Brewed Iced Coffee on SmittenKitchen - I’m totally...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:56:00 -0400

Cold Brewed Iced Coffee on SmittenKitchen - I’m totally trying this. I’ve gotten quite good at the hot coffee, but I’ve never gotten satisfactory results from my attempts at making iced coffee at home.

This Week In Goals

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:22:00 -0400

As the image suggests, let’s start with food! My new dish of the week was grilled lamb cutlets with a basil sauce. I’ve cooked lamb once before, but this was a totally different flavor. My first lamb-cooking adventure was a slow roasted shank - very fatty, very heavy. The better cut, along with grilling instead of slow roasting it in it’s own fat, made this a much better summer dish. The basil sauce (a combination of fresh basil, pine nuts and balsamic vinegar) took the flavor in a totally different direction. I’d highly recommend giving this dish a try. It’s (of course) a Jamie Oliver recipe and he even has a step by step guide to preparing it on his website (link).
I continued my running blitz this week for a total of 12 miles. I’m planning on running a 5k in about a month and I think I’d like to gradually start building up to a higher mileage per run. My lifting has been confined to light dumbbell exercises, pushups and sit-ups. At this point, all I’m really missing from the gym is doing dips and squats. I think I’ll continue with this anti-gym trend until it gets too cold out for my liking.
I started two new books this week. Not sure why, but I felt compelled to start both at the same time. The first was The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I started reading it outside this past saturday and was constantly getting distracted, which made it challenging to keep up with the developing plot. The other book is one I’ve been wanting to read for a while. Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard. It’s a fascinating look at Chouinard’s life and the life of his company, Patagonia. This book is a total deviation from everything I’ve read this year and I’m really enjoying it.

Camper Pelotas Persil. Seriously handsome shoes.

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:33:58 -0400

Camper Pelotas Persil. Seriously handsome shoes.

What I'm Doing This Morning:

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:30:00 -0400

Waking up
Calling Katie and Miles
Checking Huffington Post to find out who Obama’s running mate is
Watching courtneyc videos from Tanzania (so cool!)
Writing this post
Getting out of bed
Shower, dress
Disassembling a piece of IKEA furniture I need to return
Breakfast; cooking and eating
Getting to IKEA 15 minutes before it opens so I don’t wait in line behind every Pittsburgh college student
Running two other nondescript errands
Hopefully, back home by noon to do some work

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TCHO Chocolate Dark chocolate made completely from scratch by...

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:14:00 -0400

TCHO Chocolate

Dark chocolate made completely from scratch by two nerds! Timothy Childs (a former space shuttle technologist) and Louis Rossetto (co-founder of Wired magazine) started this promising chocolate company because they were obsessed. They’re currently still developing their formulas and are offering beta packs starting at $10 where you can sample the chocolate and provide your feedback to influence the final product.

(via foodgal)

amorousmusings: I’m obsessed. Two posts in one day on this PBS...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:20:54 -0400

amorousmusings:

I’m obsessed.

Two posts in one day on this PBS series following some famous actors and foodies around Spain.

FEED ME!

I hear by promise to reblog everything amorousmusings posts about this awesome looking show. If you’re lucky enough to follow both us, you can get your tumblr in stereo!

Whoa! Just saw this awesome section on one of Jamie...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:24:52 -0400

Whoa! Just saw this awesome section on one of Jamie Oliver’s sites. Choose one of five awesome menu’s, you can print a shopping list of all the ingredients you’ll need, and then it has step by step instructions with pictures! If you’ve got any interest in cooking and trying new dishes, you really should give this a shot.

A better week!

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:19:00 -0400

I was totally focused and productive this week! ‘Bout time! Here’s some specifics.

Exercising: I haven’t lifted in over two weeks, but I ran a lot this week. I’ve got a new route that I love. It’s just shy of three miles which is a about a mile further than what I had been running on a regular basis. And I finally found a way to use the exercise category as the visual to make these post less boring.
Food: For all my cooking talk, I actually only own three cookbooks. A Ratatouille cookbook Miles got me for fathers day this year, and two of Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks. In Jamie’s Dinners, he’s got a section of quick meals made with basic (in the mind of a professional chef) ingredients. I’ve made several of them before and loved them, so I decided to do two more this week. I made a parmesan breaded fish fillet with a cress salad, and chorizo and tomato omelette. Both were pretty good, but nothing too incredible.
Reading: Yes, I finally finished Catch-22. Guess I need to get a new book now.

amorousmusings: Can you imagine anything more fabulous and...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:39:46 -0400

amorousmusings:

Can you imagine anything more fabulous and relaxing than driving across the beautiful countryside in a convertible with friends eating the entire time and getting paid to do it?

I can’t.

WATCH THE TRAILER

Really looking forward to watching this series with Gwyneth Paltrow, Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, and Claudia Bassols on PBS in the Fall.

via Black Eiffel

OH MAN this looks awesome. Even with Frank Ghery in the trailer!

(finally) finished.

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:49:38 -0400

(finally) finished.

Want: Black Bird Fly Twin Lens Reflex Camera

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:57:04 -0400

Want: Black Bird Fly Twin Lens Reflex Camera

I updated my .com today.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:24:55 -0400

I updated my .com today.

The Big Picture

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:45:00 -0400

Two Olympic related photo series from The Big Picture. I’ve been constantly showing people the anti-terrorism exercise images for a few weeks now, but the opening ceremony images are also well worth viewing.

Ugh. It's that time again?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:35:27 -0400

Some weeks I get excited for this post. I feel utterly worked out, cooked out and read out. And I can’t wait to tell the world. Other weeks, I neglect tumblr, don’t cook at all, and never once open a book. Fortunately, the weeks where I fail with my goals have been few and (with the exception of the past two weeks) far between. I just completed my move, and am still settling in. There are still plenty of boxes, and as of right now, I still don’t have internet (thanks comcast).

I actually did alright with exercise, running three times, but didn’t do much in the way of cooking or reading. I’m so ready to get settled, and get back into more of a routine.

Last Week

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:37:39 -0400

I believe last week was probably the biggest fail towards my three goals this year. I’m between apartments right now. That’s my excuse. Not a very good one, but whatever. Here’s the damage toll:

Read zero pages in that book I’m reading, Catch-22.
Made zero new or noteworthy foods.
Went to the gym zero times, but I did run twice. Yay! A non-zero number for you.

How to be a Customer Service Ninja

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:29:00 -0400

How to be a Customer Service Ninja:

This consumerist article just proved invaluable. I’ve spent the last few days dealing with the many annoyances of moving. Transfering utilities, canceling insurances, forwarding mail, trying to figure out where all the packaging tape went, etc. The worst part of it all, without question, was trying to cancel my Verizon FIOS TV and internet service. Over the course of the last 2 days, I spent over 2 hours on hold and still hadn’t gotten a human being on the line! Within 20 minutes of when I read this article, I had it all taken care of.

Here’s a novel idea for you Verizon - why not just put a list of phone numbers for all your support centers and what they handle on your website? You could get rid of that customer frustration machine you’ve got answering the phone now, and you’d get much more efficient employees. They wouldn’t have to do the job the machine was supposed to do – route calls.

Last Week

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:58:35 -0400

Friends and random interneters, I’m moving. Thats right, for the sixth consecutive August I’ll be changing states. It was a streak I was hoping to end last year, but alas, it remains alive and well. On friday, I’ll be piloting a rental truck back to Pennsylvania and when the dust settles, I’ll be in a new apartment in the city of Pittsburgh. I’ll still be working for my beloved barbarians, but I will now be a permanent work-from-homer. That being said, I now return to the usual weekly update.

Reading - I’m on page 337 of 453 in Catch-22, BUT my copy is property of the Boston Public Library. Hmmm…what to do….
Cooking - Due to a mixup at the grocery store last week, I ended up with over a pound of fresh spaghetti. After one round of my favorite pasta bianco, I was ready to try some different things. So, I picked up some muscles and a small amount of shrimp and made two delicious seafood pasta dishes. I was surprised how cheap the muscles were. Not sure how much of that is due to my proximity to the ocean, but I plan to cook with them much more often.
Exercising - I canceled my gym membership saturday, on my second trip of the week. I only ran twice as well, so a little bit slackerly with this particular goal.

The Steelwood Chair - designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec...

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:11:22 -0400

The Steelwood Chair - designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Magis

This little chair is working hard for icon status. The above image is a production still from Gary Hustwits upcoming documentary on industrial design, Objectified. It also has 3 pages of this months Dwell dedicated to it.