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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Country-fried chow mein

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Frankly, I’m pretty bad at cooking Chinese food. I often wonder if one doesn’t need to be born Chinese to do it properly. But, if you’ve got a pile of home-grown mung bean sprouts, what are you gonna do? It’s the noodles that make the chow mein. I have no idea where one might get […]

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Some interior shots

Friday, January 1, 2010

Looking into the living area from the kitchen area Several people have been asking for interior shots of the gothic cottage. Frankly, I’ve been stalling, for a couple of reasons. For one, the interior is a work in progress, and it’s going to be many more months before I’ll be able to afford to finish […]

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Make your TV smart

Friday, January 1, 2010

MIT course on electricity and magnetism, iTunes I got rid of my television when I left San Francisco, and I didn’t buy a new one until two months ago. As a movie-watching machine, I missed having a television. But I had almost forgotten how appallingly, incomprehensibly stupid broadcast television is. I don’t have cable or […]

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