http://dysphemism.net/w the substitution of a disagreeable, offensive, or disparaging expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:33:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2009/01/05/happy-new-years-new-photos/ 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 ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2009/01/05/spotlight-keyboard-shortcut/ 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 ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/12/19/david-vs-the-vegetables-part-ii/ With E gone, I've been trying to wade my way through all the veggies in the fridge and fruits on the counter with maximum efficiency. So far I've taken care of several challenging items: saturday: apple crisp I used up all the apples (probably about 8) but wish i'd used less sugar ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/12/18/david-the-chef/ when the new themes for gmail came out, brice and i had the same reaction: these kind of suck. also, if you're going to release themes, make sure they work across all your products (google reader). also, better to have 3 really awesome themes (or at least really differentiated) than 31 ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/12/18/helvetica-vs-the-world/ so i was a little worried about the upgrade. i kept reading that saying that the admin interface had been re-vamped. i always kind of liked the admin interface on wordpress 2.6, so i was worred they'd inadvertently F it up some. well, so far, it's nice. thanks, wordpress team. today ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/12/12/re-wordpress-27/ i had to change the way i eat them to slow me down. here it is: pour fist sized pile of cheez-its onto piece of paper in front of keyboard pick up a single cheez-it and insert into mouth, salt side down slowly close mouth, holding cheez-it against roof of mouth with tongue over ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/12/10/im-so-addicted-to-cheez-its/ t's mom calls it TG. i like that. i've been calling it turkey day since halfway through college, but i think it's time for a change. E and I made the journey to portland via train this year. i remember when we decided to take it. we were on I-5, driving ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/12/03/tg/ S and I played disc golf at the U. For those of you who don't know, today was gorgeous. Olympics and Cascades in full, crystal-clear view. Fun times, too, probably because we didn't use disc-golf discs, just normal ones. E and I haven't been getting out of the house as ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/11/23/some-things-i-did-today/ the past two weekends E and I have been doing a marginally better job of getting out of the house. 2 weeks ago we hit Alki Beach / West Seattle. Possibly because we watched Sleepless in Seattle? In any case, the sunset was incredible, and I regretted leaving my tripod ... http://dysphemism.net/w/2008/11/18/pictures-from-west-seattle/