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Although, as a web designer, I should know better, this blog covers random topics: food, design, what's on tv, florida, things I like, things that irk me. You know, miscellany.
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2009 Blog Entries
Trip to Vizcaya
7/26/2010 9:27:34 PM
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This slideshow doesn't work 100 percent right, but anyway, here it is. Trip to Vizcaya, the 1921-built estate and gardens of John Deering.
Vizcaya Slide show
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Categories: Random
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Never Go to Bed Mad
7/11/2010 3:57:50 PM
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A recent plot line of one of the funniest shows on tv,
Modern Family
, was that people don't change. Well, maybe they can change 15% of their personality, but the other 85% you better be able to live with, cause it's not going anywher …
Categories: Self-Doubt, Humor
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Red white and blue shortcake.
7/4/2010 3:43:48 PM
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Here's something to be excited about on July 4th. Red white and blue shortcake. Just like the founding fathers made.
Recipe here >
< …
Categories: Food
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My social media / cooking icons
4/25/2010 9:39:12 PM
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I've been doing some things with social media lately. Not in my real life. In my work life. But then I started thinking (heh-heh). I love making food ... and I like making tiny icons ... why don't I combine them somehow? And voila, a set of …
Categories: Design
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Chocolate Beer Cake
4/11/2010 6:39:50 PM
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I was really hoping this cake, made with a generous helping of stout, would taste a little like beer. Hey, I'm a grownup. I can handle it. (Maybe just a tinge of hoppy, bitter, acidity ...) Sadly, this cake doesn't deliver any of that. But …
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The Evolution of Style
3/9/2010 9:41:42 PM
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When I was a kid, I remember being completely fascinated by Shaker style. Or maybe it was Quaker style. I probably thought it was more 'Colonial', which in a way it was, but it was really just something spartan, obliquely passed along by th …
Categories: Design
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Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad Men Xmas
11/18/2009 9:17:54 PM
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You know I'm a big fan of AMC's Mad Men. The style, the writing, the fearlessness, the art direction, the fashion ... oh and have I mentioned the style? Now, some of the plot lines
are
a little contrived (How many Tom Joad's grow up …
Categories: Humor
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Japanese Gardens in So Fla
11/2/2009 9:18:21 PM
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A couple of weeks ago, I visited the Morikami Gardens in Delray, Florida. A bit of a hike for me, but worth it. If you like nature (and who doesn't?) or disciplined garden design, or quietness, or meditation or teensy tinsy trees (bansai), …
Categories: Nature
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Free Mint Now!
10/22/2009 4:49:43 PM
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I really don't know how the grocery store has the nerve to charge $1.50 for six sprigs of mint. I could drop a leaf of mint in my backyard (if I had one) and in one week I would have so much mint growing all over that I would gladly pay som …
Categories: Rants
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Any excuse for sticky buns
9/20/2009 7:29:41 PM
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Ok, so it's Rosh Hoshana, Jewish New Year, one of those major holidays you're not supposed to ignore if you're even at all, even the least teensiest bit observant of anything having to do with anything tribe-related. Frankly, to say that …
Categories: Food
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Redesigning My Home HQ
8/19/2009 8:03:56 PM
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I recently moved into a new place, with a separate room for a home office. This is the first time in a while that the 'office' hasn't been in the living room or the hall closet and I'm pretty excited about it.
So I'm browsing ar …
Categories: Design
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The Artist and the Art
7/13/2009 8:43:56 PM
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Let us consider for a moment the difference between the artist and the art.
After a certain amount of time has gone by, this difference becomes a moot point. The art remains (if it is worthy) and the mundane details of the artis …
Categories: Random
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Movies I Can't Not Watch
7/5/2009 6:37:54 PM
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No matter how many times I've seen them, if any of these are on tv, at any time of the day or night, I have to watch:
What About Bob
A Perfect Murder
The Bourne Conspiracy
Ocean's Eleven
Th …
Categories: Arts-and-Entertainment
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Was he Nostradamus?
6/11/2009 7:42:17 PM
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away ... before there was internet, before there were cell phones, before there was hdtv, a group of young people were sitting on a patio somewhere, having a beverage (yes, there was beer), when one of t …
Categories: Rants
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Can you live without a watch
5/31/2009 12:38:09 PM
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Last month my watch died. Thought it was the battery as usual, but when I took it to the shop, the clerk said she would have to send it back to Japan because of the casings, and blah, and it was an older model, and blah, blah, blah. This se …
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Cat likes Green Day
5/28/2009 5:38:50 PM
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My cat is really enjoying the latest from Green Day. That said, he also kind of perks up at Shostakovich. So. …
Categories: Arts-and-Entertainment
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My Workout What?
5/25/2009 8:10:36 PM
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I wasted a whole rainy afternoon making a mix tape in case I ever decide to start working out. (Wow, that's a waste on a whole lotta levels.) Yeah, I know, there's no tapes anywhere near this operation. But to me, a playlist will always be …
Categories: Random
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Ted Kennedy
5/19/2009 8:31:41 PM
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Really great issue of Vanity Fair last month. And I haven't said that in a while. Bernie Madoff. Jessica Simpson's bustline. Arthur "Sully" Sullenberger's emergency landing. And especially Ted Kennedy. I haven't always been a huge Kennedy f …
Categories: Self-Doubt
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The Presidents Entourage
5/10/2009 8:03:54 PM
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A few weeks ago I heard that one of President Obama's favorite tv shows is the HBO series
Entourage
. He actually clears his schedule when it airs -- though I suppose if circumstances of global importance arose, someone
would
…
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The Magic Sponge
4/7/2009 9:36:24 PM
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When it comes to shopping sometimes I'm an idiot. Here are just a few of the household items I keep on buying even though they never do what they say they do:
Whitening toothpaste (grainy placebo)
Pet hair picker uppers …
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My ipod is possessed
3/31/2009 7:29:09 PM
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No I'm not imagining this. My ipod really is possessed. By Gladys Fleischman. Late of North Hallandale Beach. I first noticed my ipod's odd behavior about a month ago. Turning on spontaneously. Running out its battery for no reason. Sometim …
Categories: Arts-and-Entertainment, Humor
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A dream of electric sheep
3/26/2009 9:29:13 PM
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Do you remember your dreams? Sometimes I do, and I have the probably misguided notion that I know what they mean. I'm a big fan of the site
dreamdoctor.com -- especially the
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How lucky am I
3/24/2009 8:19:56 PM
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Even though I know in theory that I'm incredibly lucky to be living this life of incredible ease, relatively speaking, sometimes it's hard to be aware of how truly fortunate I am.
The oddest things can make me aware of my good …
Categories: Food
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Maybe it is better to be humane
3/8/2009 12:05:13 PM
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In general I'm skeptical about stories that depict a group that is generally acknowledged as an aggressor being depicted as a "last great hope". You know, movies where quantities of Germans are queuing up to help Jews in WW2 or white people …
Categories: Rants
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
3/3/2009 8:27:15 PM
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Does anyone out there remember
Spy Magazine
-- the satirical monthly that flourished in the late 80's/early 90's?
I guess the only thing remotely in its league now is
The Onion
, which is both …
Categories: Humor
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2
Does my hair look all right?
2/23/2009 8:37:25 PM
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New way of rating hairstyle acceptability:
"How's it going?" [Publix produce section (grape area)] - 1 thumbs up
"Hey (w/nod)" [Different area of Publix produce section (potatoes)] - 1 thumbs up
"Greetings, m'lady" …
Categories: Random
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I heart Death Cab for Cutie
2/17/2009 9:48:05 PM
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The satellite radio station that I most frequently listen to these days has a tagline like:
The Best of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
. Ugh, right? And even though I rail at the thought that I am their target demo and a victim of thei …
Categories: Arts-and-Entertainment
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You're my heron!
2/16/2009 9:23:32 PM
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You gotta love the egret. Possibly the best of all the South Florida birds. Graceful as a flamingo, yet humble as a duck. Just don't park your car near their "rest stop" anytime around their lunch break. Yoikes.
If you click on …
Categories: Nature
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Tonight's Harvest Moon
2/10/2009 7:58:05 PM
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I post this link in honor of tonight's low hanging and yellow moon. (As big as a dinner plate in my car window when I was driving home, and then as I approached the ocean, higher and smaller in the sky until it was only the size of tea sauc …
Categories: Arts-and-Entertainment
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Don't hate on the cat house
2/4/2009 4:49:57 PM
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Can I just say that I love this house for cats? I think it is gorgeous whether it was built for cats or not. You could put books or collectibles on those stairs and it would still be fantastic. Shouldn't more houses should be dog, ferret, b …
Categories: Nature
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Turn your head toward me and say eek
1/31/2009 10:22:51 AM
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Why are there no normal dentists offices in Miami? Since moving here I have been to three different dentists, all of them seemingly competent professionals, but working out of offices that are more like my grandmother's living room than a m …
Categories: Rants
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Rocky Horror = Dick Cheney = William F Buckley?
1/22/2009 9:12:10 PM
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This seemed like it would make more sense at the time. Anyway.
Separated at maturity?
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Categories: Rants
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Caution - Contents Extremely Nerdy
1/12/2009 6:52:11 PM
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For years now I have been using the name "Joe Bloggs" as a fake data entry name in any back-end system I develop. Joe Bloggs was my Jane Doe, my John Q. Public, my
foo
(nerds, you know what I'm talkin 'bout). Who wants to send this …
Categories: Design
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