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From the very first beats of Henry Krieger's score, the new staging of Dreamgirls roars out of the opening gate and never slows down.
From the very first beats of Henry Krieger's score, the new staging of Dreamgirls roars out of the opening gate and never slows down.
In 1964, when Jan & Dean scored a huge hit with their song, "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena," listeners quickly fell in love with the refrain "Go g...
Jon Tracy's imagination is so rich and so clearly articulated that he makes Homer's epic understandable to a modern audience that, like the ancient Greeks, has grown tired of constantly being at war.
In the brief period when I lived in Providence, Rhode Island, I was able to catch performances of several shows during their pre-Broadway Boston tryou...
While Hollywood tends to use fat people for comic relief (or to show how much they suffer when dieting), several actors have used the struggle to control their weight as source material for live performance art.
Writing about an educational partnership between the New York City Department of Education and Bard College that allows highly motivated students to c...
Whether deploying a chorus line of Ku Klux Klansmen, mocking every symbol of Christianity, or filling the theatre with nonstop profanity, Jerry Springer:The Opera has something to offend everyone.
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Shakespeare's plays have been the stuff of inspiration for playwrights, composers, and film directors. Here are a few of the best and worst attempts to re-imagine the Bard.
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Winner of the World Food Championships! Contest
Linda's StoryI have been making potato salad for years. The dressing has always been the same...delicious! One that every family member or friend would beg me to make for occasions. Well, you heard the saying.."If its not broke, why fix it"? In my case, If I have made something great, I want to make it even better. Enjoy these wonderful tastes. Two "World" favorites tied together. Potato Salad and Cobb Salad.
Blue Ribbon Recipe
Notes from the Test Kitchen:
Soooooo good! Dressing is great, toppings are de-lish... What's not to love?!
Soooooo good! Dressing is great, toppings are de-lish... What's not to love?!
3 lb
red potatoes, cubed, cooked and drained.
1/4 c
red onion, diced
salt and pepper, to taste
2 c
1/3 c
3 Tbsp
cider vinegar
salt and pepper, to taste
1 c
1 c
bacon, fried and diced
1 c
turkey breast or chicken breast, cooked and cubed
1 c
hard boiled eggs, peeled and diced
1 c
avocado, cubed
1/2 c
blue cheese, crumbles
2 Tbsp
scallions, diced (for garnish)
Directions Step-By-Step
2In separate bowl, mix mayo, sugar, vinegar and season with salt and pepper, to taste, add to potatoes, toss.
3Gently add salad to clean bowl for cleaner presentation. Chill while preparing toppings. Note: I like adding about 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley to mayonnaise mixture.
4Prepare topping ingredients. Remove salad from frige and layer toppings accordingly from order listed above (or to your preference.) Chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
Notes: Make sure not to overcook potatoes. Potatoes should be soft but not mushy to point of falling apart. Salad can be made day before, adding toppings next day. Stir well before adding toppings.
About this Recipe
Course/Dish: Potato Salads
Main Ingredient: Potatoes
Regional Style: American
Collections: The Great Tailgate!, Picnic Picks!, World Food Champs
Sherri Logan Williams logansw - Sep 28, 2012
Off the chain delicious recipe! I can't wait to make this. sw☺
Nancy R Robeyone - Sep 28, 2012
This is my next new potato salad recipe. So pretty and full of goodies!
Linda BONWILL lindabonwill - Sep 28, 2012
Thank you Sherri and Nancy! You will not be disappointed. It is so delicious!! Thanks for the comments. You guys are very sweet!!
Kitchen Crew JustaPinch - Oct 5, 2012
I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!
Kitchen Crew JustaPinch - Oct 5, 2012
I shared a photo of this recipe.

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"Morning Joe" EP Returns After Undergoing Emergency Brain Procedure
Chris Licht, the executive producer of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" returns to work tomorrow a month after an emergency hospitalization in Washington, DC. Early reports indicated Licht had suffered an aneurysm. He'll explain what it was and his recovery tomorrow on the show.


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Talk Box: It's Already Over for Democrats (on Cable News)
Plus, the Washington 'Post''s Eugene Robinson and Keith Olbermann see gridlock as a political "wet dream" for Barack Obama.
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Skip to content, or skip to search.
Plus, the Washington 'Post''s Eugene Robinson and Keith Olbermann see gridlock as a political "wet dream" for Barack Obama.
Plus, Rachel Maddow wants to remind everyone that Williams's firing is SO not a First Amendment issue, on our regular cable-news roundup.
We learned this from reading Keith Olbermann's Twitter.
The MSNBC toast also chatted about his father at the Thurber Awards last night.
This has nothing to do with politics, by the way.
The decision to pull him was not related to his political views.
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First we hear that our favorite cast member is out after this season, and now we hear that our favorite cast members to hate may be out, too!
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62307502014-12-21T09:40:49.245-08:00Niniane's Blog"The truth shall set you free." -- CaltechNinianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-70329097471179926702014-12-15T18:20:00.002-08:002014-12-15T22:37:42.502-08:00most and least supportive people
As a startup founder, your own morale is an important resource. So it's smart to be careful who you spend your time with.

I've discovered that the most supportive people are founders of successful companies. They know that it takes courage and getting 1000 details correct in order to build a good product from scratch, so they respect what you are doing. They have the visionary foresight to look at your lumpy product and see flashes of diamond inside.

The least supportive people I've encountered are a subset of founders of startups that are still finding their way. They will say things like "you should try doing X, and if that doesn't take off within a few days, then maybe just shut down the company". What on earth -- why wouldn't you iterate instead of giving up the very first instant! Perhaps they wish they had stayed at a comfortable job instead of starting their company, so they are projecting onto others.

The second-least supportive people are a subset of employees who joined a large company after it already became a behemoth. They weren't around for the "ugly duckling" part of their company, so they never saw firsthand how all products start out from humble beginnings. They look at your fledgling product, and it looks so puny compared to the honed product they work on, which has been polished over the years. They can't imagine one turning into the other.

Founders of successful companies are the busiest people, but they are often the most helpful.
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-34006840525760259602014-11-06T22:55:00.002-08:002014-11-07T01:09:02.094-08:00through all the world there goes one long cry
I really like this quote, at the end of Babette's Feast (a movie about a superb Parisian chef):

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-29494781516946656062014-10-29T16:59:00.000-07:002014-10-29T17:15:22.734-07:00My new company Evertoon
I'm finally ready to talk about my new startup Evertoon, and my work transition!

Earlier this year, I left my role as CTO of Minted, in order to start Evertoon. It was a tough decision, since Minted is a wonderful company and succeeding extremely well as a business. But starting a company in Evertoon's product space has been a long-time dream of mine, and I eventually took the plunge. Minted and I have been very mutually supportive. I interviewed all of my replacement candidates to lead Minted's engineering, and was delighted with the hiring of Charlie Rice, a fantastic engineering leader from Amazon. For three months after my departure until Charlie started, I advised Minted 3 to 4 hours per week. I still help out from time to time, and am very happy to see that Minted engineering is thriving.

I'm very excited to share about my new company Evertoon! Evertoon lets users create 3D animated videos by taking regular text and having avatars act it out, with animations and special effects. Many people have ideas in their head that would be entertaining videos, but lack the budget and resources to find actors, create visual effects, and locate an appealing physical setting. It only takes a few minutes to use Evertoon to turn your humorous story or marketing message into a video. Add explosions! Make your avatar punch your friend's avatar and send him the video! Express your quirky humor in a video! By making these easy, Evertoon seeks to unlock the visual stories trapped in people's heads.

For me personally, this is a culmination of my love for products with beautiful art (like Minted), slick 3D graphics (like Microsoft Flight Simulator), appeal to consumers (like Gmail or Google Desktop), and enable storytelling (like Google Lively). Everything has led up to this!

 I'm showing the product-in-progress to people who are interested in this space. If you have an interest in this area and you know me in real life and want to give me product feedback, drop me a line! Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-51850435809073937042014-10-08T00:50:00.000-07:002014-10-08T15:39:36.887-07:00Reunion
My high school reunion was held a few weeks ago.

Last month, I was debating whether to go, and googled "should I go to my high school reunion". Some of the webpages said "no, I already stay in touch with everyone I'd want to see". Others said it was a pleasant evening but nothing special.

My classmates on the reunion planning committee got into a dispute. One person wanted a formal sit-down dinner. My senior class president wanted a casual bar gathering. They could not agree. So they each held their own event, at the exact same time. Every day I got a promotional email about the sit-down dinner, and an email encouraging me to come to the bar event.

I was intrigued by how much people cared. So I decided to go to the reunion.

You'd think there is no way that two conflicting events would be held at the same time. Surely they would merge into one. One half would come to their senses and combine with the other. But no, both events were held. 35 people attended the dinner, and 35 people went to the bar.

I went to the bar. Every hour or so, we'd look at Facebook and see photos of our classmates at the dinner across town.

My overall experience was off-the-charts awesome! It was so nice to see my friends.

Real estate outside of the Bay Area is a lot more affordable. This is my high school friend's home. He lives alone.

This is my friend's master bedroom closet.

We hung out all weekend and cooked a meal the final night of the weekend. My classmate "Annie" made amazing roasted potatoes.

I'm very glad I went to the reunion! I felt a great sense of community and connection. It was far beyond my wildest hopes.
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-9466800317372788382014-09-30T02:16:00.001-07:002014-09-30T02:16:20.126-07:00inspiration by kiwis
I am reaching the end of watching 54 hours of Lord of the Rings behind-the-scenes commentary, and am freaking out that it's almost over. The commentary teaches cinematography, and is filled with bromance and love of filmmaking. Now what will I watch in the background when I work in the evening?

The final bonus disc is filled with tearful goodbyes as the actors and postproduction crew wrap up 5 years of work, and then the wonderful clean sweep of 11 Oscars. There is a photo of Peter Jackson next to a table laden with golden Oscar statues, and I think of the quote, "For every 2 minutes of glory, there was 8 hours of hard work."

There was a time at the end of making LotR 3 when Peter Jackson kept adding new shots, which meant the composer had to change the music and the visual effects team had to re-do the effects. They were all panicking. Peter Jackson was quoted in a newspaper saying "Everything is under control." So the visual effects people xerox'ed 30 copies of that quote and put it all around the office. Ha!

The chaos and "chipping at a mountain with toothpicks" reminds me of every great software project I've ever worked on.

Then because I didn't want the DVD to end, I watched a final extra feature, and it's about a 17-year-old brilliant young filmmaker who was winning awards at age 12. But he developed cancer and only had two months to live. So he made two short films in that time. And they're really, really good.

I am in awe. He spent his last time on earth using his gift, for the pure joy of creation. Every minute mattered, and he used his final ones to do night shooting and explosions and running through mud, so he could tell his story.

"No regrets," he said in his short film.
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-70040036786305202852014-09-29T16:28:00.000-07:002014-09-30T18:08:40.402-07:00you can stand under my parasol

At a party with brother Tom! Check out the shark in the background.

Drove over this bridge on the way to Napa for a friend's birthday.

...

In Napa, we were sitting outside eating brunch.

Bond: "It's too hot. We should go inside."

Topi: "No, it's only because you're sitting in the sun. Move over here to the shade. All you need is shade. Not love, shade."

Me: [lol]

Topi: "And what is love but shade, from the harshness of the world?"

Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-51229711392477517852014-09-19T00:31:00.000-07:002014-09-19T00:31:42.694-07:00twerking
Talking to an innocent friend.

Me: "Robin Thicke has been apologizing a lot to his wife. There was a situation where Miley Cyrus was twerking with him."

Friend: [nodding]

Me: "Are you familiar with what twerking is?"

Friend: "Is it like when she sticks out her tongue? Something with sticking out the tongue?"

Me: "Oh gosh, okay, I see how this happened. That's not what twerking is. But I see how this happened."
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-75785243054236945942014-09-12T01:54:00.001-07:002014-09-12T01:54:42.197-07:00i'm sure i will be so popular this time around
I'm going to my high school reunion next weekend. Recently I got in touch with a classmate I hadn't spoken to since high school, Jake.

Jake: "In high school, you were a bit ... insufferable. A know-it-all."

Me: "What? Insufferable? Like Hermione Granger? But I never raised my hand in class!"

Jake: "No, you didn't. But if someone was talking to you and said something wrong, you'd always correct them."

Me: "Oh, that's what you mean. But if they're not accurate, then I need to let them know! Otherwise they're spreading incorrect information!"

This abruptly reminded me of two weekends ago, when I was riding in a car with my dear friends.

Blaine: "It's like when the hobbits left Hobbit-town."

Me: [stifling my reaction]

Blaine: "And they went to the elf palace."

Me: "Rivendell! It's Rivendell! I could still handle it when you said Hobbit-town instead of Hobbiton, but elf palace is too much!"

So it turns out I'm still insufferable.
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-3476860848085557442014-09-09T18:49:00.001-07:002014-09-09T18:49:01.384-07:00Art Basel in December!
I am super incredibly excited to go to Art Basel in 3 months. Yay!

I went once before, in 2009. We met Val Kilmer the afternoon we arrived, and James Franco later that night!

Here's the photo from 2009. I don't think I could be smiling any bigger.

We only stayed last time at Art Basel for 48 hours but we crammed everything in! This time we are going for a whole week! We will work remotely from there.

The best part is that it's organized by my dear friend SM, and I get to stay in the same house as her for a week!

I'll also finally meet my online personal-trainer. He's been training me via webcam for nearly a year. He is also going to Art Basel.

Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-36014727991860228182014-09-06T02:58:00.001-07:002014-09-06T09:38:22.742-07:00Random moments August 2014

Memories from the past two months.

About to board the ferry for camping on Angel Island!

This camping spot is only a 30-minute ferry ride away from San Francisco!

Partying with Orkut. It was a happy and well-mannered evening.

Ate this cool Greek yogurt! It comes with pomegranate and dates.

The making of kale pies.

The finished result. When I texted the photo of the kale pies to Azer, he said "Who is eating the extra one? I land at SFO in 20 minutes."

Visiting my dear friend Sveo, who has this indoor basketball court in his house. Originally when our mutual friend Jack and I saw the blueprints 3 years ago, we were both skeptical. But after we played badminton, basketball, and did somersaults, we bowed to Sveo's foresight in installing this.

If you are envious, restrain yourself. Don't hate! Hateful comments will be deleted.

Once you've been a witch, it is easy to become a witch again. I dressed up for a Castro Theatre show.

Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-46774641069047043202014-09-05T03:36:00.004-07:002014-09-05T22:16:04.781-07:00software and the mark of love
Once upon a time, my friend Gor said, "When you're using a software product, you can tell if the creator loves it. If they love it, all the little details will be right."

He said this in the context of reassuring me, "You love your product, and the users will be able to tell."

I've noticed this difference, when watching Lord of the Rings movie adaptation versus Harry Potter.

There's a behind-the-scenes story about making LotR. During the filming of Balin's tomb, an employee commented, "One of the dwarf-language writings on the wall says, 'John was here'." The set-design people freaked out and spent hours going through the scene freeze-frame, translating every sentence from dwarf-speak to English.

Finally they went to that guy and insisted, "Show us where it says, 'John was here' in dwarf-ish!" He then looked stricken and said, "Um, I was just joking."

Contrast this passion to Harry Potter. The entire theme of the book is acceptance of people different from yourself. The book keeps reiterating: don't discriminate against the giants, or the house-elves, or Muggles. Don't hate Snape just because he's so kooky. Don't judge a book by its cover.

Then what happens in the final movie? There's an added scene where someone asks McGonagall, "Where should Slytherin House go?" and she says, "Put them all in the dungeon."

Just imprison an entire group of people in the dungeon for no reason? Go against one of the core principles of the book?

Peter Jackson would never have let that happen.

Another example is that Harry and Voldemort grapple in the movie for minutes, whereas the book makes it clear that Voldemort is far more powerful but Harry wins through love and self-sacrifice.

I've remembered this through the years, and it gives me assurance when I'm working on a product. I know that if I love it, that will shine through. Users will be able to tell, and be more likely to love it too.
Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-23854206856772060342014-08-29T22:16:00.001-07:002014-08-29T22:16:17.743-07:00LibraryI'm staying in a weekend house with a library, something I have always wanted!

I am sitting in the armchair with my kindle.

I am here with my friends who work at Screenhero. The host drew the logo on the blackboard in the entryway!

The little touches like drawing the logo (the square infinity symbol) are so charming.

Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-51556728402075969352014-08-19T23:49:00.002-07:002014-08-20T15:07:13.014-07:00Whew, keys handed over
My clean-up is complete and keys handed over and new tenants are happily ensconced in my Mountain View townhouse! Or at least stressfully ensconced, since they now need to move all their furniture tomorrow.

Last week I got quite stressed over selling furniture. My online personal trainer Donny told me about his experience in Florida.
 1. He posted his furniture on craigslist and only got flaky responses.
 2. Then he tried to donate it to charity, but was declined because they only want beach-y furniture.
 3. Finally he just put all the furniture out on the curb, and walked away thinking, "It's the city's problem now."

So I was worried. But it all ended up well! I sold most of my furniture to college friend C3. He just moved back to the Bay Area and is now working on improving genetic analysis tools.

View from my doorway of C3 and friend moving furniture.

Today, I saw the UPS truck and gave my Comcast return box to the driver. He asked if I'm moving out. He said wistfully that it's been a long time (10 years) and he's delivered quite a number of packages to me, and that it's too bad I'm leaving.

I was stunned. I had no idea that my UPS delivery person even remembers or cares who lives in my home. It gave me a really happy warm feeling inside, like I'm really part of a community. I told him that I'm not selling the place, just renting the place out for a while, and he said, "Ah!" in a cheered-up way.

Now that's one more reason to go live there again one day. Because the UPS guy is nice. Ha!

While clearing out my belongings, I found a journal from when I was 21 years old.

21-year-old me had just gotten a work project cancelled at Microsoft and was unhappy. I also felt isolated at the time because my coworkers loved baseball and go-karts and hated comedy sitcoms and Chinese food, so I had to work hard to find a common bond.

The first paragraph of my journal read: "I feel old. I feel like I used my time unwisely."

Ah, poor 21-year-old me! I wish I could hug that nut-ball.

Also found an old photo album, with this photo of me and little brother Tom:

Poor 6-month-old Tom! I wish I could hug that little nut-ball too.

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-24592656707817780542014-08-13T00:09:00.006-07:002014-08-13T00:09:58.707-07:00humbled
I find it strange that when people win an award or get an amazing job, they say that they are "humbled". This makes no sense to me.

Satya Nadella was "humbled" to be chosen as Microsoft CEO. The Oscar winners are "humbled" in their acceptance speeches. Why would you be humbled during the biggest success of your career? That's the one time you should be feeling *least* humble!

Earlier today:

niniane: i screwed up tonight and accidentally stood up friends. Humbled. (This is the proper use of "humbled")

omst: would someone who was humbled also sidenote that they were using the word correctly?
omst: food for thought
omst: humbled-brag

niniane: lol humbled-brag!

Gentle reader, next time you win something, please don't reiterate some bogus hypocrisy about being humbled. I want to hear you say, "Yes. This has been a long time coming, bitches. I deserve this. You all should be humbled in my presence."

I actually quite like how Charlie Sheen does this, with his #winning and his "giving everyone another faceload of planet jealous".
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-30974040543288884112014-08-12T00:06:00.001-07:002014-08-12T00:27:39.942-07:00Solo camping
I went on my solo two-day camping trip last weekend. It was so great.

My pack was only 22.2 pounds even with a 4-pound tent and a 1-pound stove. It must have been light because I brought very little water. My campsite had a water spout, though the water needed to be purified before drinking.

That pink tube on top is the pepper spray. I'm glad I had it. I also brought a flashlight, which I never used.

I used my survival school skills to make the wool blanket into a pack. This saves several pounds from not having a separate pack.

Selfie just before I set off with my blanket pack.

It was a 4.6-mile hike to my campsite. The distance was just right, with the weight of my pack.

I decided to eat primarily soup, so it can all be cooked in my single pot. I experimented with these three varieties.

1. Ready-made soup, 2. dehydrated vegetable bean chili, and 3. gumbo powder.

1. The ready-made soup was shockingly easy. Two minutes from opening the can to eating the warmed-up soup.

It was a coconut milk based soup, which tasted exotic in the woods.

A commenter on my earlier post said it was better to bring 16 oz of food (soup in this case) instead of 16 oz of chair. I found this to be true.

2. The dehydrated vegetable pieces in the bean chili turned out to be disgusting.

I ate a lot of it anyway, even though I could feel it coursing a path of indigestion through my stomach.

When I went to chuck the rest into the bushes, I poked my leg into a plant that made my right shin break out in allergic hives.

3. The gumbo was okay. I cooked it with potatoes and lentils. It was nice to eat real food instead of dehydrated or super-processed foods.

One wonderful thing is that I became back in touch with my body, the way I was during survival school. I could keenly feel indigestion, hunger, weariness.

The weather report said lows were around 53 degrees, but I froze at night. I woke up every hour from the cold. (This part of the trip was not so great.) I could not sleep at all between 2:30am and 4:30am due to the cold.

The second day, I decided the reason for the cold was insufficient insulation between me and the ground. I spent an hour gathering pine needles to make into a bed.

I was so proud of myself. On the fourth trip to gather pine needles, I poked my unharmed leg into the allergic plant covering most of my campsite, and got hives on my left shin. The allergic reaction was so painful that I thought I had been stung by a bee.

This is the horrid death-plant that caused me allergic hives and throbbing pain every time it touched my skin.

I made a pine needle bed. I realize it looks a bit like a grave in the photo. But it was not scary in real life. I put my tent on top of it, and my blanket in my tent. I was excited about my pine needle bed. I took a nap and it was comfortable and warm. Then night fell, and ... I froze again. I woke up every 90 minutes, which is a slight improvement over every hour but was still ghastly.

As soon as I came home, I bought a frou-frou expensive thermarest camping pad with fancy insulation.

Note the circle of allergic-death-plant around my whole sleeping area.

Walking back to my car!

It was nice being off the grid, sans email. Peaceful. Without the sounds of the city, my own inner voice becomes much more clear.

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-40255364187281478172014-08-10T17:35:00.001-07:002014-08-10T21:21:33.951-07:00Nostalgia & a trash bagI am clearing out my belongings from my Mountain View townhouse. I rented it for 4.5 years to Azer, and he let me keep some things in the garage and bookshelf. Now Azer bought a home and I am renting the place to new tenants.

It feels sad throwing away belongings that were once cherished. Or trying to sell them on craigslist, and having strangers haggle with me. One guy haggled down the price of my chair from $30 to $25, then showed up $1 short and gave me $24 plus 17 cents in coins, with no semblance of shame. He is an Adobe employee.

Azer said this might be the top of a housing bubble. Maybe financially it is smarter to sell the townhouse. But I am very emotionally attached. I still think there is some chance I might live in it again, one day.

Throwing away once-beloved and now-obsolete items is sad. I am forcing myself to smile, using that psychology trick where smiling forces your body to release endorphins. It is actually working, surprisingly.

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-25247770501644691942014-08-05T02:19:00.001-07:002014-08-05T11:51:14.638-07:00Of friends and friend geographic density and creamed corn
A delightful surprise has transpired. It turns out that four friends / former coworkers work within one block of my office! They work from three separate offices, but are so close that their Google Maps pins are almost touching my marker.

We are all going to afternoon tea next week. Hobbitses!

One of them, Yuichi, is teaching me how to be a foodie and appreciate world-class cooking. Recently he told me about this Japanese cream corn croquette:

But tragedy lies ahead in our story. In three weeks,Yuichi's company will be moving one mile away. One mile is very far compared to 500 feet!

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-7117178650218210562014-08-01T02:01:00.001-07:002014-08-01T16:08:12.744-07:00One scone to rule them all
There is a British afternoon tearoom a block from my office. I went there last week with two colleagues, Yuichi and "Sig".

Yuichi: "Are you guys going to dinner after this?"

Me: "No, who can eat dinner right after afternoon tea? We're not hobbits, Yuichi."

Sig: (raises hand) "I'm going to dinner right after this."

Then Sig left early to go eat an 18-course meal over the next four hours.

...

Afternoon tea is so pleasant at a hungry time-of-day. Recently I have acquired several teapots.

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-32037217591523752212014-07-28T22:54:00.000-07:002014-07-28T22:58:52.323-07:00"Casablanca" should win an award ... for most sexist film
Recently I watched Casablanca with a group of other people. They gushed about how it's one of the most romantic films of all time! It's such a true love story!

Let's review the female characters in this film:

1. Yvonne is being passed around from man to man, who take her home for sex and then treat her like garbage the next day. We know basically nothing else about her.

2. The young Romanian woman is preparing to have sex with the police chief, in exchange for a visa. We know basically nothing else about her.

3. Ilsa's beauty is praised continually. She doesn't seem to have ambitions of her own, other than following her husband around or following Rick around. Her only decision is which man to follow around. But even that decision is too hard for her. She tells Rick, "I don't know what's right any longer. You'll have to do the thinking for both of us."

There were no other significant female roles in the film. To recap, the only roles were a French woman being used for sex, a Romanian woman being used for sex, and a woman with beauty and no discernible skills who abdicates the single decision in her life.

This movie blows. I don't know why anyone thinks it's romantic.

Yes, it is touching how Rick puts aside his relationship with Ilsa in order to help the world, because his problems don't amount to a hill of beans. That part is good.

But otherwise it's ridiculous to say that one of the "greatest love stories of all time" is one that represses women to this extreme. Why don't you just say that "one of the best stories about ideal racial relations" is 12 Years a Slave?
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I chuckled out loud at the unnecessary aggression on this comment thread about MongoDB database's default setting of writes silently failing:

Andreas: Don't complain about incompetent usage of a technology where you obviously did not read half of the tutorial. It is clearly documented and explained on IRC, lists, slides etc. a trillion times a day that the default behavior is fire-and-forget (means no check by default).

jhanson: Is this the same Andreas Jung who said: "The "safe" mode is off by default: who made this idiotic decision?"

Andreas: And? Did I claim in my former comment that the default is a good thing? Learn to read please.

Soda Glass: You certainly sounded so. Learn to write please!

Being on the sidelines, I'm laughing at all of these, but I'm sure if I were the one being attacked, I would not find it so funny.

Here is another one that's funny when you're not involved:

Dan: You shouldn't have to check for errors. I don't check if I ran out of heap space after every line I write.

foljs: And neither do the MongoDB developers it seems…

It is amusing how programmers on the internet will viciously attack each other, based on no provocation. But why are we doing this to each other? Shouldn't we programmers band together?
Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-85112334069023854852014-07-22T15:34:00.004-07:002014-07-24T14:36:14.333-07:00update on sleep experiment
Three months ago, I decided to improve my sleeping habits. Here is what I've learned so far:

1. Falling asleep. It turns out I dislike the time period of lying in bed waiting to fall asleep. Things that are more interesting than lying motionless with eyes closed include: reading, watching a movie, writing code, or any number of activities.

So I previously would just stay up until I was so tired that I would fall asleep instantly, thus skipping the boring part.

But this meant that I would go to sleep quite late.

Things that did not work include:

setting a reminder to go to sleep earlier

avoiding blue light for two hours before "bedtime"

announcing my intention to go to sleep earlier, and asking others to hold me accountable

Things that did work include:

listening to a meditation video during the boring part of falling asleep

2. Waking up. I was previously waking up earlier than I wanted to. As soon as I became awake, I would get up, instead of trying to fall back asleep for another hour until my desired waking time.

Things that work include:

using an eye mask and earplugs to avoid being woken up by light or sound

listening to a meditation video in order to fall back asleep again

An obstacle was that it turns out that in the half-awake, half-asleep state, my brain makes problems seem ten times more arduous than they appear in the sober light of full day. I previously countered this by spending as little time as possible in that limbo state, often by just getting up. Now I try to meditate.

...

With this effort, I've managed to increase my average sleeping time from 6h 30m to 7h 10m. Sadly, in the Ericcson study of violinists, the elite bucket slept 8h 36m, and even the worst-performing bucket slept 7h 48m. I'm still significantly below even the worst bucket, sigh.

But focus on the positive! I increased my sleep by 40 minutes! That's a lot!

There was one week I got up to an average of 8h. It felt like a new lease on life. Something to aim for.
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I decided to go camping by myself this summer. I want two days of peace and solitude in the wilderness. I've wanted to do this ever since my 2-day "solo period" during survival school, but I'm finally going to put it into practice.

Survival school taught me how to create a shelter, purify water, treat cuts, and deal with wild animals and lightning. The only thing I fear is encountering a dangerous stranger, but Sha-mayn brilliantly told me to get pepper spray. I ordered it from Amazon, and now I'm prepared!

The only question is whether to get this 1-pound camp chair. It looks so comfortable, and has back support! But it is going to add one pound (5% additional weight to my pack).

Also I already am departing from "survival mode camping" by bringing a tent and flashlight, and this just goes further down the slippery slope. At least the tent has a functional purpose of providing warmth and shelter, and the flashlight helps with safety. The chair is only for luxury. It has no function other than making my back feel great. What if this camp chair is the gateway drug to camping trips with pillows and hammocks?

Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-32617665623768346102014-06-29T23:06:00.003-07:002014-06-29T23:06:34.223-07:00animation humor

At CM's birthday brunch:

CM: My friend was deciding between being an animator on a film versus a game. He said on a film, he'd just spend a year making Shrek's eyelash. On a game, he gets to create the whole character!

MB: All 2000 polys of it.

Later:

MB: Lots of games are all mo-cap now.

Me: Are all films totally mo-cap'ed now? Does anyone hand animate these days?

MB: Of course. You can't mo-cap a dragon.

Ninianehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-76659255678408278632014-06-23T15:26:00.000-07:002014-06-23T15:26:14.962-07:00OMG he-who-must-not-be-named hilarity

I am newly obsessed with Harry Potter books again. The characters are so well-written! I also forgot how funny the books are.

Ninianehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230750.post-21014821177220011852014-06-11T21:54:00.003-07:002014-06-11T22:07:12.507-07:00Hermione
I am quite irritated at the Harry Potter movies.

In the book, Hermione is a very strong, interesting character. She is acknowledged by everyone as the best student in the class. She stands up for herself. She's great.

The movie forced her to cry at the end of the Yule Ball, sobbing, "Ron, you spoiled everything!" Then she plops down dejectedly with her shoulders slumped. In the book, she shouted at Ron to learn a lesson and "ask me earlier next time before someone else does, instead of as a last resort!" Then she sweeps off to bed, leaving Ron thunderstruck.

Movie forcing Hermione to be dejected

The movie had her crying on Harry's shoulder when she discovered Ron kissing Lavender, asking Harry, "How does it feel when you see Ginny?" and then weeping at length. That never happened in the book. In the book, she sent magical birds after him and then walked out and slammed down the door, with a single sob.

Movie forcing Hermione to weep

The movie inexplicably had Ron pick Lavender over Hermione. In the book, Ron went to Lavender because he felt jealous and inadequate that Hermione kissed Viktor Krum, and because Hermione insinuated his quidditch win was due to luck potion. Ego wounded, Ron sought to build up his confidence via Lavender, who adored him like a dolt and never challenged him. The movie had Hermione being sweet and supportive, but then gets suddenly rejected for no reason by Ron.

Ron and Lavender: movie removed all motive

I'm also irritated by Ron's speech in the first movie about how Harry needs to proceed through the rest of the quest alone, and that the hero has always been fated to be Harry, not Ron, not Hermione. What the heck. A central theme in Harry Potter is that we're not doomed or fated for anything. We make decisions, and those shape our future. Harry could've been great in Slytherin, but he continually made choices not to go into the dark arts. The book emphasized and re-emphasized how our choices define us. But the movie has a monologue about how Harry was the special one, so therefore his friends should just give up now because they're not the Chosen One and he is.

I place the blame at the feet of the movie directors for 1, 4, and 6. They took an exquisitely written book and character (Hermione), and watered her down to a damsel in distress. J K Rowling gave us a gift, and then the director dropped it in the dirt a few times.
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On the more controversial issue, namely, Maureen's suggestion that "neocon puppet masters" are pulling Romney's strings on Middle East, and my belief (and the beliefs of several other keen observers) that "neo-con puppet master" invokes an anti-Semitic stereotype, Andrew had this to say:
The usual would-be policeman of Washington's discourse on all things to do with Israel, Jeffrey Goldberg, takes a break from the Jewish holidays to consign yet another member of the thinking classes to the ranks of "something much darker." Dowd wrote a column in which she noted how Greater Israel fanatics run the Romney campaign's foreign policy (which they do), and their neoconservative bubble is part of what explains Romney's nasty and divisive attempt last week to politicize the recent flare-up of violent anti-Americanism in the Middle East.
There are three problems with this one paragraph (four if you count the general ad hominem nature of it). The first I noted before (the business about Rosh Hashanah). The second is that Andrew neglects to characterize my criticism fairly -- I wasn't complaining about Maureen's focus on Romney's association with neoconservatives, I was complaining about her use (however inadvertent) of an anti-Semitic stereotype. Andrew decided not to tell his readers about my actual objection. Not cool.
And then there's the accusation that I'm the "would-be policeman" of Washington discussion on Israel. I understand his motivation for making the charge -- he doesn't like to be criticized by me for what I think are his wrongheaded observations about the Middle East -- but policing? Really? There's no policing going on here -- I often post my opinions about what other people are saying about the Middle East, and I'm often critical in these posts. What Andrew calls policing most other people call blogging. I would only note that, by Andrew's own definition, he "polices" discussions of homophobia, and, from my perspective, more power to him. (By the way, for those of you who don't understand Andrew's seemingly obscure reference to "something much darker," the phrase refers to a Leon Wieseltier piece from 2010 accusing Andrew of being anti-Semitic.)
James Fallows made more substantive points about the "neo-con puppet master" charge, in a post supportive of Maureen:
For what it's worth, I know that the term "puppet-master," which Dowd uses about the likes of Paul Wolfowitz and Dan Senor, fits some anti-Semitic tropes. But it also is a normal part of English that has nothing necessarily to do with anti-Semitism. I remember hearing a college lecture about Iago's role as "puppet-master" of Othello; one biography of J. Edgar Hoover had the title Puppetmaster. As a kid I read a Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel of the same name. The very ugliest term in Dowd's column, the statement that a certain group was "slithering" back into control, was something that Paul Wolfowitz had said about President Obama! No one is identified by religion, Jewish or otherwise, in what Dowd wrote."
Jim's post on the subject brought to mind Jonathan Chait's very smart observation that
conservatives seem unable to hear racist dog whistles (when, of
course, they're not doing the whistling themselves) and that liberals, conversely, are often unable or unwilling to hear anti-Semitic dog whistles. It is true that Dowd made no mention of the Jewishness of Senor or Wolfowitz. It is also true that Newt Gingrich made no mention of President Obama's race when he referred to him as a "food stamp" president, and yet Jim condemned Gingrich for racist dog-whistling:
...Newt Gingrich knows exactly what he is doing when he calls Obama the "food stamp" president, just as Ronald Reagan knew exactly what he was doing when talking about "welfare Cadillacs." There are lots of other ways to make the point about economic hard times -- entirely apart from which person and which policies are to blame for today's mammoth joblessness, and apart from the fact that Congress sets food stamp policies. You could call him the "pink slip president," the "foreclosure president," the "Walmart president," the "Wall Street president," the "Citibank president," the "bailout president," or any of a dozen other images that convey distress. You decide to go with "the food stamp president," and you're doing it on purpose.
Jim went on to write:
If Joe Lieberman had been elected, I would be wary of attacks on his economic policy that called him "the cunning, tight-fisted president." If Henry Cisneros had or Ken Salazar does, I would notice arguments about ineffectiveness phrased as "the mañana administration."
(A short, illustrative, story: Several months ago, I wrote about the prevalence racist dog-whistling in the Republican primary campaign for Bloomberg View. A few weeks later, I was at a Bar Mitzvah when the Weekly Standard's Andy Ferguson (whose Bar Mitzvah it wasn't) manfully admitted that he would be attacking me for my dog-whistling column in the next issue of Commentary. He explained to me his argument, and I made the point that I tend to defer to African-Americans when it comes to deciding what is racist and what is not, in part because as a Jewish person, I don't particularly like it when non-Jews take it upon themselves to define anti-Semitism for me. I believe that as a Jew, I'm qualified to tell what is what -- which doesn't mean, of course, that all Jews will agree with me. So, I explained to Andy, it seems only right that blacks should be granted the autonomy to decide what isn't racist, gays should be granted autonomy to define homophobia, and so on. Andy nodded in agreement, and said he understood my point. He attacked me anyway, but, whatever.)
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What double standard set by society do you hate the most, or at least places at the top of your list and why?
I hate the way most people, and society, seem to think that there's this big biochemical distinction between alcohol versus illegal drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy, LSD etc. I will often hear people say "drugs are for losers" or "I would never take drugs", and then they say how they love drinking wine or beer.

In spite of that, research by various organisations consistently demonstrates that alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs out there. And yes, alcohol is a drug. No ifs or buts.
Men can sleep around no one says **** a lady has 30 lovers in a lifetime and she's a horror how come men get variety and we get told not to so not fair
Society preaches and praises ethics, but the most ruthless and unethical are the ones who make it to the top. Those who are willing to do any and everything are the ones who reap the most rewards.
treating fat people bad cause they're fat and treating thin people better even if they don't deserve it
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Blackberry's have been 'accessible' for years now. I saw a compromised device May 2012. There is nothing they cant hack.
So why is Android only mentioned in the headline, but not in the body where you talk about the operating systems getting compromised?
[quote name='Vitale' time='09.09.2013 10:52']These days most ppl opt out of owning a mobile phone.
Simply not needed.
Old fashioned ink to paper and a verbal face to face has always proven successful.
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lol bad troll is bad.
Maybe it time to go back to the Fax machine for security did you ever notice it is still used by Solicitors and others.
Sounds like people had better re-adjust their methods and tools for communication. If their privacy matters.
Bu t the real intent goes MUCH deeper: It's about mapping your relationships and mapping your habits -- to make it a PREDICTIVE tool. And to isolate you (cut connections) from others, if/when the time comes.
If you didn't know this or think of this, you are not nearly as informed and devious as they are. Maybe it's time you "grew up" and became more Street Smart.
So, maybe we can all have fun with this... Knowing the NSA is listening in on our PRIVATE conversations, and reading our PRIVATE "papers," let's all start a campainge of mis-information just to f-uck with their stupid heads. We'll just all point back to them and the obama regime. Keep them running in circles and fill their storage houses with white noise.
This isn't surprising, if you use any device connected to a network, expect it to be breached.
Sh ould we also consider our USPS mail (connected to use via a network of physical brick and mortar post offices) to be breached? The NSA should come down and be erraticated utterly.
According to federal law, hacking is a felony punishable with prison time. Without a warrant, even the government is not permitted to access anyone's personal papers, etc. Email is an electronic version of "papers" and is protected by the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.
Since cyber hacking has also been classified as, in effect, cyber terrorism, the NSA is 110% guilty of terrorism and should be treated as such. They should all hang.
In America privacy is a crime.
And it goes on and on and on. -"the land of the free...", yeah... right.
Home of the slave, Land of the fee. Fall out of line and disobey authority, the gestapo will get you.
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Apple would be joining dozens of other leading tech companies that have established large development centers in Israel. Google has not one, but two such centers in Israel — the only country in the world outside the United States with that distinction.
Did you actually believe DC is the capitol of the USA its only a proxy. The real capitol is in the 51 state of Israel, they can attack and kill with impunity.
UN resolutions are only for other countries not the Zio empire.
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"It's awesome. I love a turnout like this," Vol fan Justin Webb says, "It just shows how much Tennessee fans support this team and how much they love Tennessee football."
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First Listen
KWC 92 "Macau Ferry Terminal"
- Words: DeForrest Brown
- Label: L.I.E.S.
Samo DJ's and Max Stenerudh's collaborative record as KWC 92, Dream of the Walled City O.S.T., is said to be a conceptual soundtrack for a movie set in the drug- and crime-addled Kowloon Walled City. Lifted from that forthcoming release, "Macau Ferry Terminal" takes the listener on a guided tour through the underworld, as sticky synth patterns and hollow drums illustrate the dank experience. KWC 92's track trails off into ambient passages infused with fog horns and sickly pads until it leads to a pressurized conclusion.
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