Because my brain is too small to rememeber all these junks…
Check out Migi’s new food blog at koreanhomecooking.com
Migi has been cooking at home a lot lately. And as some of you who visit my Flickr stream probably know, we always try to take photos of the main dish. So we decided that we might as well create a cooking blog :-)
Wow, three posts in one day! I’m catching up ;-)
Just wanted to congratulate Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the movie Once. Their title song Falling Slowly won the Best Song category for the Oscars last night.
Glen delivered one of the most heartfelt and sincere acceptance speech I can remember. When Marketa tried to speak though, she was cut by the exit music (almost cliché) and they were escorted to behind the stage :-( But then, after the commercial break, Jon Stewart brought her back! so she can have her minute of fame she deserves!!! If he and Conan alternate hosting Oscars from now on, I would watch it every time :-)
Anyway, you can listen to the whole soundtrack and download the title song from the official site. And go rent the movie if you haven’t seen it. It’s bit slow, but watch it for the awesome soundtrack.
… you have got to try the Instant ASCII Cam. Coolness.
To Minimize or To Hide… That is the question (for Mac users). Most people who like to use mouse, I think sticks to Minimize to Dock, then click on the corresponding icon on dock to restore the minimized window. Then there are people like me, who try to stay away from using mouse unless I’m browsing. People like us, usually hide the current application (and all its windows) which you can get back by pressing Cmd-tab. Although there are subtle differences in these semantics, when I first switched to Mac, I found it weird that OS X offers two ways to rid of current window. And if you minimized the window, cmd-tab’ing through open application does not restore the minimized window. It’s pretty hard to imagine a rationale behind this annoyance.
Then today, while I was reading Lifehacker article about a freeware that provides just this functionality (enable cmd-tab to minimized window), I found out that you CAN indeed restore minimized window (without installing the mentioned freeware)
With that said, I’ll probably stick with hiding apps. I always keep my Dock hidden anyway.
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Save some money on online tax filing.
This is pretty darn cool. Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin for wordpress scans your blog entries while you’re editing it, and gives you options to embed “shortcuts”. To better understand what shortcuts are, try hovering over Microsoft, Oakland, or Barack Obama. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for the hack day, so I’m very excited to see it launch. Kudos!
Here’s a delicious article that makes you want to be a wine connoisseur :-) It’s just hard to imagine how something could be that good as he describes the experience.
The moment I lifted the glass to my nose and took in that sweet, spicy, arresting perfume, my notion of excellence in wine, and my understanding of what wine was capable of, was instantly transformed—I could almost hear the scales recalibrating in my head. The ‘47 was the warmest, richest, most decadent wine I’d ever encountered. Even more striking than its opulence was its freshness. The flavors were redolent of stewed fruits and dead flowers, yet the wine tasted alive; it bristled with energy and purpose. The ’47s signature flaws—the residual sugar and volatile acidity—were readily apparent, but it was just as Lurton had said: In this wine, the flaws inexplicably became virtues. The analogy that sprang to mind wasn’t port; it was Forrest Gump. This was the Forrest Gump of wines—clearly defective, completely charmed. I realized that it was silly even to try to place the ‘47 in the context of other wines; it defied comparison, a point underscored when I tasted another legend, the 1945 Château Latour, later that night (yeah, it was a nice evening). The Latour was stunning—probably the second-best wine I’ve ever had—but it at least fell within my frame of reference: It was a classically proportioned Bordeaux that just happened to be achingly good. The ‘47 Cheval, by contrast, was an otherworldly wine—a claret from another planet. And it was amazing.
$5.01 Money Bomb Extravaganza on February 12th for Obama
Yay, let’s get in on the bandwagon and donate $5.01 to Obama campaign tomorrow!
1. Small donations are powering Obama’s campaign
2. Lincoln is on the $5 bill and the penny
3. .01 is also for us online progressives making a statement to the campaign that we are here and we’ve got money. That we aren’t the huge bundlers for campaigns. We sacrifice parts of paychecks that mean more proportionally to those of us with smaller incomes. We buy into Barack Obama because we do dream of a more hopeful future instead of cynicsm. I would much rather be called a Hopemonger than a Warmonger. So if you believe in the hope that small donors are powering the Obama campaign, please join me in showing that when Americans united with Hope can wield large influence with small donations!
Hilarious
Compare with Obama supporters’ Yes We Can video
Water heater in our apartment malfunctioned for the third time since we moved here. And so I was again forced to take cold shower this morning. I used to take cold shower regularly when I was younger, as sort of challenge for myself. I also heard that it’s beneficial to health - though I could not verify at the time (the Web was at its infancy back then). Anyway, I did some search again and here’s what I found:
Even though it may sound like a masochistic act, taking cold showers to reap health benefits isn’t a new concept. It’s been used as a means of therapy for thousands of years. The ancient art of Yoga, which began an estimated four to eight thousand years ago, teaches its students that taking cold water showers will help strengthen your immunity system against colds and flu. The coldness can actually help make your mucous membranes more resilient to germs and viruses. It will also release toxins from your body tissue, stimulate the circulation, cleanse the circulatory system, send needed oxygen to your organs- as well as fresh blood- and cause your muscles to contract. These contractions help your muscles rid themselves of toxins. The cold water also helps reduce painful muscle inflammation. Another benefit of taking cold showers is that it will give you a boost of energy and a sense of well being.
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Cool!
If you live in the Bay Area and like Chocolate, you must do yourself a favor and check out Scharffen Berger Factory Tour in Berkeley. The factory tour itself is very quick (just bunch of industrial machinery… don’t expect Willie Wonka’s Factory though it probably smells like it!) but the highlight was the info session that precedes the tour which was both entertaining and informative.
Scharffen Berger was founded in 1997 by a physician and a wine maker. They specialize in making high quality, dark chocolates from start (importing of beans) to finish (manufacturing and packaging) Though I was bit disappointed to find out that the company was recently acquired by Hershey’s, it is still run as an autonomous unit, and produces premium quality chocolates following their original recipes. Sort of a bitter-sweet ending, I suppose :-P
In the gift shop next to the factory, you can buy regular Scharffen Berger chocolate bars as well as Josef Schmidt chocolate truffles and Dagoba organic chocolates (they all are sister brands under Artisan Confections subsidiary of Hershey’s)
Cacao Cafe, next door serve pretty decent brunch on weekends for reasonable price.
Check out this imaginative talk on TED by David Macaulay. Macaulay is famous for illustration books, such as The Way Things Work
Drawing is a lost art that most people abandon as they grow old. I wish I had not done that…
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