The other kitchen toy I bought — mostly to make Safa’s favorite Sesame Chicken and perhaps tempura — is a deep fryer. Yep, a deep fryer. Never thought I would, but I have to admit that the Sesame Chicken was heavenly the other night. And I can make donuts too! Actually, I feel much more [...]

After waiting 6 months for it, I finally received the All-Clad Master Chef 2 10-1/2-Inch Flambé/Shallow Sauté Pan I ordered from Amazon. I stuck with the order because it’s a $125 pan for $60. This will help a lot in my recipe repertoire expansion campaign. Too many times when doing a meal that was modestly [...]

Guns don’t shoot people, Dick Cheney does. “Dick” was quail hunting in Texas where no one ever dies from gunshot wounds (they are executed instead) and seems to have accidentally shot his millionaire friend Harry Whittington. Fortunately for Harry, Dick (ahem) has a phalanx of doctors around him at all times due to his lameness, [...]

I heard Jack Handey’s “My Speech to the Martians” on PRI’s Studio 360 this morning on a program devoted to exploring violence as a form of art and entertainment. Interesting show. But the highlight for me was this:
My Speech to the Martians

Why do Koreans tend to go overboard with just about everything? I mean, I do admire their radical student protesters who walk their talk when it comes to active political engagement against whatever it is their protesting and truly kick ass, making American students look like the apolitical consumer-driven wimps they generally are. And the [...]

It’s going to be easy filling my February quota of films since we’ve been doing Miyazaki Hayao in my anime course. Kicked things off last week with Miyazaki’s first real masterpiece, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Several students didn’t like the eponymous heroine’s near infallibility and her role as messiah. All that aside, [...]

An astute Goyareader pointed me to Pandora and the Music Genome Project. Basically, the Project involves analyzing music in its constitute parts in order to form relations among them on a “genetic” level. Pandora is the interface through which a listener can then enter an artist or song and, theoretically, Pandora will create a radio [...]

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve put up a separate page with mp3s posted for your listening pleasure. The link is at the bottom of “Categories.” In WordPress you can do stand alone pages outside of the blog chronology so this started as my first test of this feature. Figured I might as well make the [...]