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[23 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

Mah jong and hip-hop: together at last!

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[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]

Tonight I made one of my favorite dishes, Spanish Chicken with Saffron Rice. I use a simplified version of this recipe from Epicurious.com that I got at A Southern Season. They were selling saffron that day, and this recipe is as good a reason as any to splurge on some.
The changes my recipe made to the Epicurious verson were: using 3 lbs. of chicken breast instead of a whole chicken and omitting the peppers and peas. My version also didn’t specify that you were to cook the rice in the …

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[18 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
No Reservations, Lost in Translation: Pasta with Red Sauce

Or, in my unique version, oily-yet-delicious tomato sludge.

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[15 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Google Is Run By Hank Scorpio

This blogger’s experience working at the behemoth that is the Googleplex put me in mind of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to work for Globex. But does Google offer self-cleaning kitchens?
What happens when Google swallows your life? A new hire at the internet company is blogging the experience, from waking in his Google apartment to taking a Google car to Google dinner and then Googling home via Google.
A Sun veteran, software developer Tim Bray was no stranger to big-company life. But he knew Google enveloped employees on a whole …

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[9 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
ModCloth: My New Obsession

I suspect when my husband sees this post, he’s going to ban me from the Internet for the sake of our finances. I’ve recently discovered ModCloth, a site selling cute clothes from indie designers at reasonable prices. Over the past few weeks, I’ve bought one cardigan from them, ordered a top I’m exchanging for a larger size, and tried a dress that didn’t work well with my figure. I’m cutting myself off the Cloth for now – but I’ll probably be back in a couple of months when they start …