November 2010
18 posts
June 2010
2 posts
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Poloroid Social Media Icons set
I needed some social media icons for a website I was working on the other day. These were too large but I liked the look of them: clean but also with the full name of the service in the icon. And you can’t beat free…Amplify’d from webtoolkit4.mePolaroid icon set Here’s another free icon set for you. 16 PNG icons on some of the most popular web services. YouTube, delicious, RSS,...
Starting to grok Amplify… The bookmark let is cool and I can use it with my iPad. But it is not posting constantly to FriendFeed and when it does none of the content is shared there. If that were working I think Amplify could be my new launch point for online sharing and even blogging. Right Now though my life/community is on FF so not being able to have things import there properly is a...
January 2009
2 posts
25 things you may or may not know about me
Mona posted her list the other day and asked some people to do the same. She didn’t ask me (I feel so betrayed!! :P) but I did it anyway.
I can’t decide between creme brulee and cherry pie as my favorite dessert.
I am one of the few women married to a geek who might actually out-geek her husband. I love gadgets and gizmos at least as much as Tad does, and I was a programmer...
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Lemon-Rum-Cream Chicken
I had all these beautiful lemons from the tree in my backyard and decided I needed to make something with them for dinner.
I found a few recipes for lemon cream chicken online but didn’t have all the ingredients so I made up something instead. It turned out great (Tad and Avynn thought so too)! It has a wonderful tangy lemon flavor in the thick creamy sauce. And it’s relatively...
November 2008
6 posts
Ponzu Chicken
This recipe is almost cheating considering how easy it is but it’s so good and still falls under the category of low-carb so it’s worth posting. Ponzu sauce has less than 1 carb per serving (check the label!) and chicken has no carbs so I’m going to be generous and say that this is 1 carb per serving.
Ingredients:
1.5 lbs of chicken breast halves (~ 4 large or 6 small)
1...
Chicken in Sundried Tomato Cream Sauce
I modified this recipe from one in The Atkins Essentials a book that quick-starts you on Induction (the first phase of Atkins). It is quite yummy and about 3-4 net carbs per serving.
Ingredients:
1.5 lbs of chicken breast halves (about 4 large or 6 small)
1/2 tblsp salt (optional if you are on a sodium restriction)
2 tblsp chili powder
2 tblsp paprika
1/4 cup olive oil
3 tblsp butter
1...
Low-carb Coffee Souffle
This is a recipe that I’ve come up with modified from a recipe that I found several years ago for a quick, easy eggy low-carb breakfast. It will make a souffle-like dish that looks horrible but is quite tasty! Estimating it to be about 4 net carbs.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup heavy cream
1 tblsp vanilla extract
2 tblsp Sugar Free General Foods International Coffee (your preferred flavor - I...
July 2007
1 post
DNA replication simulation →
Completely amazing and mesmerizing computer simulation of how a strand of DNA is copied. I’ve watched this like 10 times and I’m still fascinated. Wow.
May 2007
3 posts
Squirrels with Lightsabers →
super LOL!
Trying out imified posting
I just added Tumblr to my imified widget collection. Giving it a test run to see how the posting process works! I’m fascinated with imified. I want to create my own widgets soon.
March 2007
23 posts
The French take Sunday seriously.
Nothing is open near the hotel where I’m staying as far as places to eat. Even Starbucks is closed and that amazes me. I had to get lunch from a vending machine in the Metro or pay my whole per diem to eat something from the hotel restaurant. All I’ve had to eat today is a breakfast bar, a pack of Madeleines, and a bottle of Orangina (met pulp!). I need protein badly! I...
The apple tarts at the Louvre Cafe are very tasty.
I’d definitely suggest one if you need a snack while you’re there! Mmmmm. Tres Bon!
Even the pigeons speak a different language in...
A pigeon roosted outside my hotel window for a good bit of the morning, “singing” as they do. It looked just like an American pigeon but sure didn’t sound the same!
ATMs are hard to come by in Paris.
I went a lot of places yesterday and never saw an ATM. Even in the Carousel de Louvre (a nice mall), there wasn’t an ATM to be found. None in the Metro stations either. Big contrast to the US where you’ll find them almost every block and several in any mall or shopping area.
Always carry some spare change in case you need to...
…And a pay toilette is the only option. You’d be surprised how willing you are to part with a 50 cent piece when you need to relieve yourself (and how frustrating it is not to have one in the same case)! I also read in the guide I have that for free public restrooms, there’s often a porter there who you are strongly encouraged to tip anywhere from 50 cents to 2 euros. It’s...
Don't eat your sandwich lunch at the Eiffel Tower...
…Unless you like to be petitioned by Bosnian beggars who will not leave you alone about your spare change. I finally had to go sit on the steps of the closed museum on the corner to eat my lunch in peace (well, almost… French pigeons are as insistent as the beggars, but much more easily dismissed!).
French women must be tall on average.
There is a nice make-up mirror in the bathroom of my hotel room, but I have to stand on my tip-toes to see below my nose in it. I am about 5’5” and since I’m assuming that mirror must be hung at eye-level for the “average” woman, then the average must be about 6’ here! Update - when getting a look at people in Paris, there are quite a lot of tall, skinny women...
French beds don't use topsheets.
Or, at least they don’t in this hotel. You sleep directly under the comforter, which is fine until it gets a little too warm. Interesting difference from the way we do it in the States.
Bringing more than one set of electric plug...
Unless more like the French you’re not as gadget laden as I am. So much for me having a powered USB hub and my laptop on at the same time.
There's not that much of a difference in security...
The only difference I noticed outbound were I showed my passport instead of my driver’s license I had to fill out a disembarking card when entering the French airport I had to get through a kiosk with customs officials to get to my baggage Otherwise, no big deal. I’m no sure if going back will be that easy but probably.
Taxis in Paris do not take credit cards.
My cabby said that there is a group of taxis that do take credit cards but they are more for in-city, corporate, group-type transportation. Most cabbies, he said, only take cash.
France is cold, wet and dreary in March.
Or at least it has been so far on this trip.
Knowing how to order some food in the language of...
Otherwise you’ll end up like me, eating your first meal in a country world-renowned for it’s fabulous cuisine at Starbucks because you can actually parse the menu items.
There is no place to purchase pre-paid GSM phones...
Unlike what I had been told. Unfortunate since that means I have no cell phone at all while abroad for more than a week.
French people like art.
Probably not a surprise to anyone in theory, but a surprise to me in exposure. In the complex where I am staying, there are several gardens and at least 12 large sculptures just on the main drag. And they’re good at framing things. One of the gardens has trees lined up so that if you look down the corridor they form you see the Arch de Triumph framed at the end. It’s cool.
Laying your head over your tray table helps with...
I have a great tubular squishy pillow that I can use as a head support when leaning over my tray table on a flight. I put a regular airline pillow between it and the tray table so that I have something to rest my elbows on as I wrap my arms around the squishy pillow to make it firm enough to support my head. I have actually fallen asleep a few times doing that right after being nauseated trying...
Eighteen-hour trips make you pretty darn tired.
Ok, that’s a given but a lesson that I have definitely personally learned now.
French hotels want to promote the genericism that...
At first it amazed me that in a country that is obsessed with high fashion: There are only 3 hangers in my modestly sized wardrobe There is no iron or ironing board for me to get the wrinkles out of my packed clothes.I guess foreigners are just expected to be wrinkled and frumpy.