This is why I love Epicurious.com: great content, with a great interface that just keeps improving. I’ve long loved the site for my ability to save my favorite recipes online, and their awesome ratings system, which allows me to compare notes with other cooks and come up with the version of the recipe I think [...]
July 13th, 2005
Read...Scho Schweet. Finally, I got a car! And what a car it is! Witness the lovely Scion xb. Reasons why I love it: — Relatively cheap ($13K base, $15K with automatic & cruise control, $17K with taxes and fees) – Environmentally friendly, for a non-Prius, with 31 mpg [...]
July 13th, 2005
Read...I try not to mix my blog up with work too often, but I stumbled across something today that gave me pause — a very eloquent letter to the editor of our Charlotte Creative Loafing paper. The reader was complaining that Charlotte CL runs “Moodswing” — a column by Atlanta columnist Hollis Gillespie, which often makes [...]
July 13th, 2005
Read...I try not to mix my blog up with work too often, but I stumbled across something today that gave me pause — a very eloquent letter to the editor of our Charlotte Creative Loafing paper. The reader was complaining that Charlotte CL runs “Moodswing” — a column by Atlanta columnist Hollis Gillespie, which often makes [...]
July 13th, 2005
Read...Salsa Havana, Atlanta Where have all the food blogs gone? Or, like why have I stopped posting food? It’s just been busy, folks. Here’s a lovely margarita, consumed at Salsa Havana in Atlanta. I wouldn’t recommend the food — nothing special about my arroz con pollo, or the [...]
July 12th, 2005
Read...E-media Tidbits complained this week about the relative lack of citizen-generated photography on news-sites about the London bombings, given the abundance of cameraphones out there in the world these days. In the hours I spent following the story on British news websites, I didn’t see anything fabulous and citizen-generated — but ya’ll know, that content is [...]
July 10th, 2005
Read...1 a.m., I just got in from a horrific road trip to Charlotte … flights being expensive, business necessitates the car. The rain from some failed hurricane was coming from all angles; bouncing off the pavement, slapping me on the sides from 18 wheelers, surrounding me in a shower of bright white water, and reminding me [...]
July 7th, 2005
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