Tuesday, 11 May 2010
We got daring a few days back and purchased—tah-dah!—a mandoline! That is, a mechanical slicing assistant. It’s by OXO, and has several blades (and yes, of course we got it on sale).
JCB angled for fries for the first run. They came out great. Olive oil. Potatoes. Salt. Nothing more.
Eat ’em hot! Yum!
Monday, 10 May 2010
Yeah, the title’s a bit sly. Yesterday’s art show opening had an open door (haha).
The backstory is that we walked over to the opening, but it wasn’t open yet; someone (not far from this keyboard) had noted an erroneous time that the opening would open. Walking home, I kept an open mind, though! We were rather profligate with our hydrocarbons later, as we drove back for the real opening, when it truly was open.
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Friday night we made an evening run down Peachtree before looping to the house. Our wee sedan was dwarfed by Hummers and Tahoes already on night-cruise, but I did get some compromised shots of the night sky and buildings.
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Arum maculatum, which has poisonous berries…. Hmm.
This stuff is spreading! It’s a trio now!
I guess I should have expected that, since somehow it appeared in my garden.
Note that this plant was at the same stage on 7 May last year. For whatever it’s worth….
The meaning of “weed” in the title is from The Botanist: “any plant that’s growing where you don’t want it.”
Friday, 7 May 2010
Note the bumble bee-butt in the upper right of the bloom cluster.
Lots in bloom right now, including our rhodos, both the old one (white) and this year’s newly planted replacement—and the new one is indeed deep red-purple, just as labeled.
I’ve also noticed lots of vine honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) in bloom, which has a nice smell, but is an annoying spreader, kinda the yellow cousin to the kudzu.
Enjoying the buzz over the FREE FREE! Neandertal-human genome mix report in Science (the glitzy—that is, popular—version is here, but watch out as it’s loaded with Flash). Best upon-release commentary I expect I’ll see is by John Hawks.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
It’s back! (The Arum maculatum.)
So, Newsweek is for sale. Is the buyer getting much more than a name and falling sales/revenue?
The reporting, you wonder. Howze this: on the contents list, two pages tagged for Mrs. Bush, Mrs. 43. And the “full story” you flip to? One’s a Laura Bush notation on a scale (pure opinion). The other’s on the quote page. A dozen words, more or less. Takes longer to flip to the right page than to read these morsels.
I can honestly say that I don’t “read” Newsweek any more, I just flip through it. It doesn’t seem to have much reporting (beyond the cover story), and is heavy on opinion, rounded out with tidbits like the LB stuff.
Our last issue (no, it was one back) came as “New week.” They’ve lost more than reporting already.
In my opinion….
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
KW and I had a quick back-and-forth via email this morning about the sign in yesterday’s post, and I expanded the discussion by suggesting that she look at the Chinglish signs the NYTimes collected from Shanghai.
Then, this afternoon, we made a quick (and uncustomary) stop at Publix in Ansley Mall to look for dinner-food. We bought nothing (decided to go with tofu that’s in the fridge, with some BBQ and rice—versions one and two on this website), but I did come away with this sign photo.
Not surprisingly, I take issue with the “cheap” part—almost eight bucks is not “cheap” in my personal wine pricing scale. I’d have to go with under four bucks for that….
Nǐ hǎo is literally “you good” in Mandarin, but it means “hi ” or “hello” (it’s informal). According to WikiPee.
Monday, 3 May 2010
From a pre-rain visit to Lake Clara Meer, the algae is already…visible….
Recently the Ma-Nature stories were about the deep earth: volcanoes and earthquakes.
We’ve transitioned to liquids: precip (and more precip) and the (human-induced) oil flow.
Around here, we saw the rain. Lots of it. Not much sleep last night when the first bad spell pounded us, but there ya go!
Sunday, 2 May 2010
I trust even the rodents noticed today’s weird weather—warm and windy. Supposed to be worse tomorrow.
