It’s Cold…(°20F) and quiet, I can’t do much about the temperature, but I can at least make it a bit less quiet.
Andrew Bird - Mx Missles followed by Elliot Smith - Rose parade
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I’ve written about my love affair with Lightlife veggie products before, basically they make veggie alternatives to popular dishes – garlic chicken teryaki (which is excellent), chili, orange sesame chicken - and it turns out, Tex Mex, which I found on my recent Whole Foods excursion, so this morning I thought the Tex Mex would nicely round out (carbohydrate wise) my typical (3 days a week) omelet variation - I must say it was delicious - and even though I ate all three servings of the Tex-Mex the nutritional numbers where excellent.
To save you from having you do the math. that’s 245 calories, and under 20 grams of carbs, That leaves a tiny bit of wiggle for some form of fiber, which in my case is a 1/4(ish) cup of Post Grapenuts which I graze on over the course of the morning.
In case you think I’m more obsessed about the numbers, than I am with the taste, you’re wrong - I’m absolutely obsessed with them equally - If I’m going to put the effort to prepare food, it’s going to be both delicious, AND good for me - I figure I wasted 35 years on food that wasn’t doing me any good, this seems the least I can do.
Eat well, enjoy!
if it performs via IMAP remains to be seen…[via gmail]
Turns out that gmail’s colored labels are just much too quiet for me, I’m all for understated - but silent isn’t useful, Google needs to ‘man-up’ designwise.
‘T’ and I spent some time in the Princeton NJ’s Whole Foods Market - I’ve never been there before, all I can say is wow, my local Acme Market really pales in comparison. The meat, seafood and produce selection at Whole Foods was incredible - like 100 kinds of sausage - and more types of mushrooms than I could ever eat. I scored some salmon candy (yes you read that right, and some wasabi peas - yumm!) Obviously I had a better day than the fish in the photo — Have I mentioned how much I like my iPhone’s camera?
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My dear friend Dawn pointed me to this excellent Chris Cornell cover of a classic MJ song, it’s certainly worthy of a few listens, I don’t recall him sounding this good in Soundgarden.
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Yet another song that have been significant in my life.
Not much I can say about this song other than it reminds me of my wife. I like the Dire Straits version best, but Matt Nathanson does a great job performing this live.
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I want to start by saying that I seldom use Photoshop for web production, I may use it for some visualization and image editing but as a general rule, everything ends up in Fireworks for any layout or slice and dice that may need to happen. Yesterday in what I can only describe as a momentary loss of sanity, I cranked out a few dozen graphics for a promotional blog from Photoshop - all jpegs, all designed to seamlessly fade into the blogs blue background - took me 3 tries - why? - because Adobe in it’s infinite wisdom has ‘include icc profile’ on by default, and I absolutely missed that fact TWICE – if you’re unaware of this setting, it’s a color profile that attempts to assure you get consistent color representation across devices - and it works swimmingly as long as all the software honors ICC profiles - not surprisingly IE and Firefox on a PC don’t, which is why I never use embedded ICC profiles KNOWINGLY. So aggravating..
I recently just finished a project that included a day-by-day itinerary, and an hour-by-hour speakers schedule, I really wanted to highlight the current days events, and emphasis the current speakers bio - not a daunting task by any means - but always looking to skin the cat differently, I used a single line of php, and a two generated css selectors.
here’s an item from the event list
<ol id="3070812">
<li>Effective Sales via email</li>
<li>Time: 12pm</li>
<li>Date: March 7th, 2008</li>
<li>Location: Green Room Loungue</li>
</ol>
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I like Math, I like Broccoli and I like Cauliflower - I think the odds are high that I’d like Romanesco broccoli aka fractal broccoli, although I do realize that the mathematical appearance has little to do with it’s taste.
To the somewhat rude lady @ the WAWA on Bristol road who feels her ability to spawn gives her some kind of built in preferential parking permit- I’m not CHILD -LESS, I’m CHILD -FREE, which like sugarFREE, fatFREE, and ‘FREE like in Beer’ - is a choice, not an affliction, so enjoy your screaming, fussing, ugly child for the next 18 years or so, oh and NICE parenting, locking your infant in the car while you go buy cigarettes and chocolate milk is inspired.
if you enjoy the acerbic nature of THIS post, you really must read some of my vintage content