April 2009
3 posts
please to sign MoveOn’s anti-torture petition: http://pol.moveon.org/torture/
A beautiful Bicycle Day! http://tinyurl.com/55rpks
RT @seattletimes: Washington Legislature expands gay partnerships http://tinyurl.com/c2dyqv
February 2009
1 post
congratulations to county exec ron sims on his nomination for deputy secretary of US HUD. go ron!
December 2008
6 posts
Darin’s Diablito Truffles
Diablitos are rich, dark chocolate truffles infused with hot chiles, cinnamon and cayenne. sweet, rich, painful, decadent.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1# coverture-grade dark chocolate (for the ganache)
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 dried chiles
- 1-2 dozen black peppercorns
- ground cinnamon
- ground cayenne pepper
- ground white pepper (optional; adds heat)
- dark cocoa powder
- turbinado sugar (may...
Tempering chocolate →
Epicurious truffles →
Aztec Truffles →
Apricot Pâte de Fruit →
Salted Chocolate Caramels
Salted Chocolate Caramels Gourmet | December 2006 It’s the sprinkle of sea salt that really takes these caramels over the top, teasing out the creamy richness of the buttery chocolate candies. Makes about 64 candies. 2 cups heavy cream 10 1/2 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (no more than 60% cacao if marked), finely chopped 1 3/4 cups sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/4 cup...
November 2008
3 posts
Dutch Baby
Ingredients: 1/4 cup (1/2 stick/2 oz./56g) unsalted butter 1 Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and cut into 1/2-inch-wide wedges 3/4 cup whole milk 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 4 large eggs 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting
Instructions: Put oven rack in middle position of oven and preheat oven...
Obama watching McCain’s concession speech: http://bit.ly/EOVM. An amazing set on Flickr.
*happy post-acceptance speech sigh* Also, Gregoire’s looking good. Burner is TBD.
October 2008
3 posts
America, the banana republic →
the top 1% and economic stability: http://tinyurl.com/3sfhh9
Sept. madness: http://tinyurl.com/3vd4w6 (thanks Antoun!)
September 2008
7 posts
This bailout stinks, and Bernie Sanders has it right. His Paulson petition: http://tinyurl.com/4e5umu
Incredibly beautiful iPhone wallpapers →
Drill here, drill... later? →
According to the US Energy Information Administration, oil production from drilling offshore in the outer continental shelf would supply just 1.2% of total US annual oil consumption… when it comes online around 2017.
Lies to Nowhere...
Palin’s bridge to nowhere lie has been repeated 36 times and counting.
freestyle rap, translated for culturally white people. http://tinyurl.com/6roe5l
Now or Never- Obama
Over the past few weeks, I’m guessing you’ve had a conversation with a friend or coworker about the presidential race. Maybe you discussed how tight the polls have gotten since the Republican convention, or Sarah Palin her antics, or whether we’re going to end up getting ‘sad drunk’ on November 4 2008 just like we did in 2004. We may be looking at another very close race this year....
July 2008
7 posts
“If you want to call me a whiner for not being happy about a military-recruiting commercial taking place over my house, be my guest.” -Mason
joined the ranks of the iphone faithful. the key word right now being ‘faith’.
“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
A republic, if you can keep it
I’ve spent a lot of time recently trying to understand FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law passed after Watergate which prescribes procedures for the surveillance and collection of “foreign intelligence information”.
Congress has just permanently expanded FISA to allow the government to obtain the personal records of ordinary Americans from ISPs, phone...
Segways and then some... more Chinese... →
How many miles to the table?
Becoming obsessed with local food. Just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s brilliant Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. On to the farmer’s markets… you can find times and locations at http://www.seattlefarmersmarkets.org/markets
Bogota Shows How to Reinvent Cities →
June 2008
8 posts
Scott Hansen's absolutely gorgeous Obama print →
June playlist →
A rough complilation of my current playlist. Will post updates periodically… (Rhapsody link)
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without...”
– Henri Nouwen
The Democratic primary in one minute →
An animated “weighted map where the brightness of a county represents the percentage of a delegate vote per square mile on a logarithmic scale and the hue of each county is roughly represented by this scale.” But, easy to understand :)
NASA images magnetic fields - so pretty! →
NPR interview with Jim Whittaker, the first... →
Now in his 70s, Seattleite Jim Whittaker has climbed Rainier something like 80 times. A beautiful interview with a man who truly loves nature, most especially the mountains of Washington.
The media was Obama's BFF - not. →
A study by the Pew Center showed that Clinton and Obama received nearly equal numbers of positive stories in the press. McCain on the other hand…. Also of note: 78% of stories focused on politics/the horse race, while only _7%_ focused on policy matters.
King County Charter Review Commission →
For the last 15 months, I’ve staffed a 21-member citizen commission that is charged with reviewing the county’s constitution, and recommending amendments. We’ve just released our final report and recommendations. I’m so proud of the commission’s work, especially the amendments to 1) improve the representation of rural and unincorporated area residents (who rely on...
May 2008
17 posts
Radiohead's "In Rainbows" webcast →
Been listening to this for months, and it’s still amazing.
A beautifully illustrated online book →
… about crack.
First climb at Exit 38
Despite most of us being kind of spacey and tired, Rose, Alexis, Mason, and I had a blast climbing at Exit 38 yesterday. We climbed two routes; Blockhead (Route E) was the second. It’s pretty petrifying every time I get 20 or so feet off the ground, but breathing and shouts of encouragement from below keep me going :)
“If you treat a man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if...”
– Goethe
Extraterrestrial life? Astronauts believe. →
Moby's New York →
“If you look at New York objectively, the rents are incredibly high, there are lots of annoying people here, it’s too crowded, it’s too noisy, there are bugs, there are rats. There are so many reasons not to live in New York but yet everybody still wants to live here.” Sometimes I miss NYC :-)
It's always the right time for Madonna. →
Rhapsody link.
Alison for Obama! →
My friend Alison is running as a National Delegate for Obama. And I’m having a great time managing my first campaign :-) The 7th Congressional District Convention is next Saturday, May 17.
Map of states won- HRC v Obama →
I find this map fascinating, because it’s essentially a new geographic configuration in politics (as far as I know :-) I think it portends a new configuration for the general, as well. Barack is going to put traditionally GOP states into play for the Dems, likely in the area that America is most dynamic - the West. You can also easily predict looking at this map, and knowing nothing about...
fivethirtyeight.com- political data heaven
I love politics. I love data. Therefore, I heart 538. The blogger who runs 538 is a statistican by trade, and his analyses of the Democratic primary race have been top-notch. He also posts on DailyKos as Poblano. He tracks the current predicted outcome of the general election (Obama v McCain and HRC v McCain) using updated polling information for the entire US- not just for the states that are...
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Incompetence writ large- a political opening in...
“Where are the soldiers and police? They were very quick and aggressive when there were protests in the streets last year,” a retired government worker complained to Reuters news agency. BBC News I believe that Katrina was the turning point when the last of America’s moderates lost faith in Bush. Maybe this will be the beginning of something similar in Burma. A girl can dream,...
Obama has won the nomination. NO, REALLY. →