a cutting-edge food thing
Friday, oct. 6, 2006 | 0 comments
I am intrigued and tempted by the Baker’s Edge pan (discovered via Chocolate and Zucchini, one of my all-time favorite food sites).
I’m very close, you even might say I’m close to the edge of buying this thing, but as more of an inner piece person, the concept of “nothing but edges” doesn’t hold as much sway as much as it might. Though I guess the whole point of the pan is that the edges remain moist, what with no longer languishing to the point of overdone-ness while waiting for the inner areas to cook sufficiently.
Better still, the pan forms the shape of both an E or an M, making it a potentially wise investment for my household, where it could be used to make both celebratory M(arco) birthday lasagnes and E(vany) cornbread loaves. Plus it paves the way for many “edgy” jokes, which is always fun, especially when it comes to food. “This frittata tastes a little edgy, don’t you think?”
the art of the self-reflexive icon
Thursday, oct. 5, 2006 | 0 comments
This photo, which I forced Marco to take when we were walking around up in Seattle, makes me hugely happy:
A self-celebrating gas pump.
Which somehow makes me think of this photo (blatantly stolen from the July 4, 2006 entry of my favorite hedgehog blog):
A self-celebrating corn muncher.
Edited to add: To continue on the theme, Paul just pointed me over to my favorite Cockeyed’s series of recursive photos, how about that!
lingo lingoing lingone
Tuesday, oct. 3, 2006 | 0 comments
I’ve had a number of job interviews these past weeks at a number of different internet companies, and as such, there’s been a whole lot of lingo-talk going on. “Best practices” and “proof of concept” (or just “PoC”)…“message” used as a verb.
It brings to my mind this thing I wrote back in the late 90s for a big purple book about ladies in technology. It was a sidebar piece about what it was like working on the internet, specifically a purported new wave of office jargon, all of which I completely made up. Like I claimed that conference rooms across the e-nation were abuzz with people saying things like “add that to shopping cart” (meaning “let’s definitely greenlight that project”) or “we’ve got too many windows open” (meaning “the meeting has descended into far too many sub-conversations and needs to get back on topic”). I think I even used “view source” (“let’s find out more about what it takes to make that work”) and “flatten layers” (“merge everyone’s feedback into one core mission statement”).
It was never entirely clear if the book’s editors knew it was supposed to be funny or what, but for years I felt sort of guilty about the whole thing. Though, after the book came out, my office did start to sort of joke-seriously use the “add to shopping cart” one, and even “too many windows open.” So in a sense, my piece wasn’t made up after all. Total PoC!
a world gone wrong
Tuesday, oct. 3, 2006 | 0 comments
I saw a hipster wearing a fanny pack today, just…walking up the street. What does that even mean? When the ultimate in wrong is now embraced like that? What’s next, trucker hats?
neverending story
Monday, oct. 2, 2006 | 0 comments
Just when you thought I was all done with the scary readings, I’ve been signed up for one more. Yay! Ugh! And this time it’s in a nice, convenient spot, accessible to the bulk of my friends (THIS MEANS YOU!), right in heart of the heart of San Francisco. Here’s all the info:
From the Cody’s Books website: “McSWEENEY’S UNDER THE SEA TOUR: Free drinks, brief movies, and appearances by three of the finest McSweeney’s authors. CHRIS ADRIAN will read from THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, his newest novel; EVANY THOMAS will discus the latest McSweeney’s research into the way you sleep and what lives in the ocean; and LISA BROWN will teach your baby to fix a car. And Wholphin — the McSweeney’s short-film DVD quarterly — will offer a slate of clips from its upcoming issue. All at 6:00 PM at Stockton Street.”
Cody’s Books
2 Stockton Street
Sunday, October 15
6pm
I sure hope you can make it, because this is the very last time I’ll be reading from the Sleep book. I think. Also: FREE DRINKS!