As if I didn’t have any more reasons to fall for John Flansburg of They Might Be GIants, I find out that he has an iPhone. Gearlog had an interview with the Flans, touching on the band’s use of technology. If I do ever get to meet him, I wonder if he’ll pose for a photo like I had with John Ong.
Link to Gearlog interview part 1 [link]
Link to Gearlog interview part 2 [link]
England’s smoking ban on July 1st has caused a sea change in British social interaction, but not in an obvious way. A percentage of the ten-plus million smokers in Britain [statistic from Action on Smoking], have been using their outside smoking time to catch up on their correspondence. According to Orange UK [via T3] people were multitasking by sending text messages while smoking. Naturally, sending messages to bitch about how they were cast from of their now smoke free hangouts to commune with the elements and other frustrated smokers.
Without divulging the actual percentage, the network saw a 7.5 million increase in texts within the two weeks of the ban. Given, this is the summer time, I wonder if this will make the cost of messages to go up or down, or if this will just be a seasonal phenomenon. Perhaps Orange, O2, 3, and T-Mobile will be smart and make TXTs cheaper in the winter months. Regardless of what happens, my hopes lay in the notion that England will start up the use of the cigarette holder to make smexting easier.
Pictured below is baked macaroni and cheese. Not one of the most creative or complicated dishes in my repertoire, I serve this when there has been a long run of rice or asian noodles. While good in its own right there is a huge flaw, but it doesn’t reside in the creamy sauce and the crispness of the melted cheeses on the top, no clearly it is…. that I made it.
True, I have not made one macaroni and cheese the same way twice but they’ve all turned out to be general successes. Unfortunately, no matter who I serve it to, it never seems to be quite right; I will never live up to the one person that served them their best mac and cheese. Save for my friend whose adoptive mother was notorious for making “macaroni and milk”, everyone who comes up to my table has the paragon of macaroni and cheese deeply embedded into their psyche. It is not so much the technique, but there are certain memories locked in with that perfect mac and cheese that I don’t seem to stock in my pantry.
Elbow, shells, fusilli, baked, stove top, roux-based, boil, boil and absorption, soft noodle, firm noodle, broth based, milk only, cream only, sour cream, no crust, crumb crust, cracker crust, cheese crust, one cheese, three cheese, white cheese, soufflé, black pepper, white pepper, fresh herb, dried herb, no spice, dried mustard, with vegetables, with meat, with meat and vegetables, full fat, low fat, no fat, soul free, soul crushing, crushed garlic, crushed ice, ice cold, cold heart, heart broken, heart ache, head ache, head trauma, traumatic childhood…
Video of the undercover reporter being escorted from DEF CON was posted and it revealed a couple of things.
1) associate producer doing the walk of shame
2) nerds aren’t above a bit of schadenfreude
3) nerd’s can take the high road, they’ll turn into huge dorks and heckle like common paparazzi
I have respect for the guy just taking photos, he was capturing the moment. Unfortunately, the other nerds just made her feel bad by calling her names. Sure some person shouted out “This is for all those helpless predators” but that didn’t help summarize why whole venture was unjust.
Michelle Madigan wisely kept quiet and let the dorks shout rhetoric. Had they asked serious questions about her intentions and those of NBC, her silence would have rang as an admission of guilt. Instead, the hoard shouted quips making for a better YouTube clip but clearly showed that they were more interested in revenge rather than justice.