Hi all,

This is to remind those of you interested in getting together on sunday, 12 April for an easter feast to make comment, email, call or otherwise express your interest in joining the fun. I do need to start getting a count.

See you soon!

Hi all,

I posted this to facebook and I repost it here so that everyone knows:

Hi all! It's time for one of my favorite holidays: Easter!

One of the reasons this is a favorite holidays is that I have always seen it as an excuse to get a bunch of people together and cook some lamb. I will probably be working on a variety of other middle-eastern style dishes as well - even some vegetarian options. In short, it will be a dionysian feast. A bacchanal of food.

Hi all,
I've just started reading Ruhlman.com again since I'm starting to get back into cooking at home. Michael Ruhlman, friend of Uncle Tony, is a terrific food writer and trained chef who has produced several very attractive volumes on a variety of topics. Unfortunately all I've ever read is his blog, but his blog is awesome. Plenty of pictures and well-written thoughts on the essence of cooking. With recipes!

Hi. For those of you not on Facebook (or that I missed tagging), I just announced my new blog: "hunger. cook. eat." There's only one post on it right now, but I've got plans...

Anyway, you can see it here.

For the most part, I thought it made a better stand-up act than a documentary. Some of the people he interviewed provided truly priceless moments. Many of the interviews reminded me of the Daily Show interviews.

He deals with a subject that, clearly, makes him very angry; not with grace so much as a humorous and just-this-side-of-irreverent attitude that gets him thrown out of several places, but never killed (though you wonder at times).

He does bring his theme together nicely with an intense 10 minute statement at the end of the film (this isn't really a spoiler, 'k?).

A link:

Link

I mean, come on. The future of the e-book is in the cross-platform format of the .pdf and the text-file (and whatever comes next). When are the marketers going to realize that ideas are truly free. Selling the DRM rights to a text are next to idiotic.

Where they need to focus is on the service rather than the content. Who brings you the most critically-acclaimed info? Who gives you access to the best information?

I recently got a pretty sweet tablet laptop from my father. It had a bunch of Novell network stuff installed so that it could be part of a larger network. I didn't need it and it was somewhat annoying, so I started removing it (unfortunately it wasn't all listed under Novell, so it took a couple of tries). Upon removing the last of the components, Windows started to complain on restart about a missing .dll and wouldn't give me the option to log in so that I could go about fixing it.