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January 5, 2009 at 10:29 pm · Filed under General
the other night i posted two new sets of photos from the holidays, spent in death valley and joshua tree. i can scarcely believe this, but I added descriptions to some of them, so it’s possible to figure out what they’re of!
Joshua Tree
Death Valley
In addition to the rocks and sky, it’s safe to say the thing i like to photograph most in the desert is creosote bush. The leaves seem to stay green all winter and the bark is blue/gray/white, and striking in the evening. Some highlights from the trip included seeing a fox at the texas spring campsite in death valley, getting to do plenty of star gazing, soaking in hot tubs, and only getting sunburned a couple of times.
January 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm · Filed under General
here’s a little tidbit that i didn’t know existed until a month or two ago, but it’s been one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts recently:
⌘-spacebar: opens spotlight, apple’s integrated search engine.
i find this method of finding and running, say Terminal.app, much faster and easier than rooting around in the Finder > Applications > Who Knows if the app in question isn’t already in the dock. Just hit command-space, start typing terminal and hit enter after a couple of characters. now you can keep your dock squeaky clean, just like mine, without losing the ability to run applications :)
really, it’s not much different from the Start Search text box in Window Vista’s start menu. But it’s fun, it works, and it makes me happy.
December 19, 2008 at 6:08 pm · Filed under General
whoops: forgot to mention the potato leek soup i made last week. (when my cooking frenzy really started). I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but it tastes pretty awesome now. especially with ‘hot cock sauce‘ (i really don’t like calling it that, but weirdly everyone (literally everyone) has been calling it that recently). so here goes:
last week sometime: Potato leek soup - made from two gigantous but diminishing leeks in the cripser and the softest 4 potatoes in the drawer. i should have known something was amiss when the recipe didn’t call for cream, but it could have been worse. Also, slicing and washing leeks is surprisingly fun.
today: turnips - peeled, sliced up in 3″ lengths, tossed in olive oil and baked for “1-2 hours” (what an awesome recipe). I’ll let you know how they turn out.
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