I have tried Tamarind before as an ingredient in dishes,but I have never actually seen the real fruit. I wasn’t even sure it was edible uncooked. So,when I saw it sold in the shop,I had to try it. It turned out to be a very educational experience. The fruit is layered with . . . →Read More:Tasting Tamarinds
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I don’t swear! I find that if I use up the swear words in day-to-day situations,I will have nothing to use in the critical moments when I actually need to let the steam out. Interestingly,when I do get those moments,I still do not really swear. But I need to know that such . . . →Read More:Swearing in esperanto My VOIP phone company (Lingo) has just announced that they are now on MySpace. I have heard of car companies doing that,but it feels rather weird when a utility company wants to do the same. I can see two reasons they could be doing that: They are not doing too well and are getting . . . →Read More:My phone company wants to be a friend I am a member-at-large of SCA –Society for Creative Anachronism. Due to various reasons I was not able to go to any events for nearly two years now. Today,I had a chance to go to a feast and it reminded me the power of SCA. I did not have any of my garb . . . →Read More:The power of SCA Today,I was weeding my blog garden! I have used Xenu Link Sleuth to find all the dead outgoing links from my old blog entries and tried to fix them to point to the new locations,the Wayback Machine or to just mark them dead. It was sad to see how many of those links . . . →Read More:Looking back,looking forward Account cancelation is a great pain in the rear. A PCWorld article (via BoingBoing) tests multiple services and discoveres that most of them go to great troubles to keep people subscribed,willingly or not. Something has to be done about it. I propose a new business that will cater specifically to the people calling support . . . →Read More:Calling for support? Calling for trouble! The business idea. Most of the comments to this blog are –unfortunately –spam. WordPress’s Akismet filters them out and I periodically review and delete them all. I don’t know why I bother,but once I had a real comment black-listed,so I keep making the effort. It is also semi-interesting to see how the spam attacks . . . →Read More:Spam comments in esperanto? A new Borders bookshop opened near me. Just for fun,I decided to look at their Russian books section (in original Russian). I expected to find none. The result was much stranger. There were two books on the shelf. One was something non-memorable. The other one,however,was Nobokov’s translation of Alice in Wonderland. So, . . . →Read More:Borders’confused attempt at selling Russian books I don’t normally go very far uptown in Central Park,but this time I did. So,I discovered the Strawberry Fields Memorial to John Lennon. Aparently,it often has flowers and candles. This time (July 16th),it also had muffins. . . . →Read More:Strawberry Fields Memorial for July 16th If you like programming and/or pattern-based music,do not follow this link. I had ignored someone’s identical advice and 20 minutes of my life is now gone. So,I pass on the advice,in the hopes that others have more resistance than me. If you are week of spirit however,make sure you are . . . →Read More:Music making machine | ||||
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