April 1st, 2007 by mdI went to the Body Art Expo today at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Wow.
Body Art is apparently the umbrella under which you find tattoos, piercings, and body modifications such as (I don’t know what the official names are) boring large holes in your ears, installing spikes under your skin that poke out [...]
9 Comments » March 30th, 2007 by mdFull disclosure, I had to censor some of the content regarding the trip. Here are some of the things I left out in the form of a partial list of posts that didn’t make it:
Three things you don’t do at the Leper Colony on Molokai
What the labels on the toilets said never to flush
A picture [...]
March 30th, 2007 by mdThis trip was powered by Pacific Yacht Management.
Thanks to Berkley, Captain Brad, and First Mate David. An amazing trip from start to finish. And thank you Katie for finding them!
If you have ever dreamed of sailing into a beautiful cove surrounded by lush cliffs and waterfalls, anchoring off of a deserted beach where you can [...]
March 30th, 2007 by mdWe got up today and motored back across the southern side of Molokai.
Along the way, we stopped in at this little shack built on pilings and stilts on a reef. Again, I suck remembering the Hawaiian names for things, but will be sure to get it right for the special post-vacation Google Earth map of [...]
March 30th, 2007 by mdWe got going pretty early on Thursday morning. A cool thing happened overnight: rain fell pretty hard and the waterfall was gushing more heavily as a result. I don’t know if you can tell from this picture, but it was coming down pretty heavily.
I guess it’s kind of hard to tell, but you should trust [...]
March 29th, 2007 by mdWe got underway this morning pretty early. I think it was around 7AM.
We motored out from the beach – there was almost no wind – and around the bend to the north shore of the island. Captain Brad said that we’d see some amazing cliffs – he wasn’t kidding. Along the way we saw [...]
March 24th, 2007 by mdThis is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. A friend recently told me about this as a way to gather feedback quickly and economically from real people.
Mechanical turk.
This platform allows a researcher (say a company, a product designer, an academic, even a computer etc.) to post a question or task [...]
March 21st, 2007 by mdFrom Reichl, Ruth, ed. The Gourmet Cookbook. Conde Nast Publications: New York, NY (2004).
“Buttermilk Cupcakes
Makes about 30
Active Time: 30 minutes
Start to Finish: 1.5 hours
Every cook needs one all-purpose cupcake recipe, perfect for a birthday party or bake sale. This is it. Buttermilk give these delicious little cakes a well-rounded flavor.
3 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons [...]
March 19th, 2007 by mdSo I heard that the Bionic Woman is being remade into a new TV series. I can think of another female hero that needs an update. Yikes. I like the bloomers and the sensible, black shoes.
March 18th, 2007 by mdI found some info on post-bypass pain in the sternum. Evidently it’s pretty common. Patients report cracking and popping in the bone when they sneeze or cough. Others report that the two halves of the bone sometimes don’t align properly and they overlap as they heal. It seems that one of the newer ways to [...]
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