I wasn’t aware that the US had so many types of visas. The only kind I’ve run into are the (controversial) H-1Bs, which are for people with ‘special skills.’
Christopher Walken makes a chicken. (looks pretty tasty) Christopher Walken has a reputation for being something of a cook and apparently does quite a bit of cooking himself, since restaurants sketch him out.
I’ve seen a few of these “Ghost Bikes” around the city. They’re white bicycles placed at the site of fatal bicycle accidents. It looks like this new site will be putting something up on the phenomenon soon.
I’ve been very curious about the drug Alli, the weight loss drug that is now available over the counter. The marketing claims that you can expect some modest increases in the amount of weight loss, provided you follow a fairly low fat diet. But we’re we’re talking – 15 grams per meal. That’s really a rather small amount of fat, the amount you would find in your average sandwich. If you go over the 15 grams in a single meal, Alli sees to it that you are punished with ‘treatment effects,’ essentially foul-smelling oil leaking out of your anus. After reading vile personal experiences such as “My body won’t stop leaking” and “Stinky treatment effects and you, a yucky story” I’m not entirely sure that I need to take the drug itself to lose weight. I just goes to show what people will put themselves through to lose weight. For my part, I’m sticking with exercise.
Hungry in Hogtown, the excellent food blog, has a kool entry on a kool subject, kool-aid pickles. Don’t laugh, kids apparently love them.
I remember throughout my youth hearing how solar energy would someday take over if only they could improve the efficiency of the panels. Turns out they are getting very efficient, very quickly.
Ugly Outfits NYC is sort of like Overheard in NY in that it captures the some of the street theater I live for – spotting outrageously bad outfits.
After finding that iTunes 7.3 pinned my processor to 99% utilization for no explicable reason, I decided to download 7.3.1. What a nightmare this once useful software has turned into. It’s bad enough that I have to endure a complete Quicktime reinstall that is slipgraded with every new version of iTunes (and having to delete the unwanted qttask.exe every fucking time), now I have to deal with iPhone bullshit as well. I don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t need any special software or services associated with it. iTunes has become bloated and irritating load of crap.
So, I tried the cold-brew iced coffee technique. To pull it off, I simply took a french press coffee maker, put the usual amount of coffee in, added water and allowed it to brew overnight. By morning (when I do most of my coffee consumption) the coffee was ready. A french press is particularly well-suited to this technique as it has a built in filter.
There is definitely something of a difference between the hot brewing and cold brewing processes. In particular, I did find that the acidity was much lower. This method of brewing emphasizes the sweetness and the richer chocolate flavors that many coffees exhibit under the right circumstances. So, it’s definitely worth a try.
Common sense would direct you to sit in the back of the plane if you were trying to increase your chance of surviving an albeit unlikely crash. Turns out that statistical analysis indicates that this is true, that is, your likelihood of survival seems to increase if you sit further back in the cabin. Nevertheless, I’d still prefer to sit in first class most of the time.