This chart is interesting. This shows book buying networks based on web-based purchasing circles, i.e., when you look at a particular book, Amazon recommends books purchased by other people who have bought that book. Amazon uses this as a marketing tool; social scientists can use this to voyeristically examine people’s bookshelfs and perhaps [...]
Added a printable version for articles, using code found on the b2 forum. One change in that code was to add the URL for the original article, as well as generalize it so that it grabs the blog name from the configuration file, rather than having it hardcoded. Why, oh why, do people [...]
From the NYT today. Should try it this weekend: warm ovens are good in this weather.
Recipe: Roasted Salmon With Herb Vinaigrette
Time: 40 minutes
Olive oil
1 1/2 medium-size Idaho potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch slices
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup red-wine vinegar [...]
Good news: the co-op board favors combining apartments: “We feel it enhances the value of the building as a whole while at the same time allows owners to continue to live here when their need for living space grows.”
The process works out like this:
Contract for the apartment
Apply to the co-op board, just like with any [...]
The Washington Post has an article by a former Clinton deputy chief of staff: Don’t Put The Blame On Clinton (washingtonpost.com)
This was in response to Charles Krauthammer blaming Clinton for, well, everything that’s gone wrong with the world.
The Clinton Administration inherited a number of problems from the former Bush Administration, but didn’t spend the first [...]
An article in The New Republic about the radicalism of democratic liberalism and wartime: The New Republic Online: Resolved
Paul Berman notes that the United States was predicted to fail by Tocqueville because he couldn’t see how a liberal democracy could hold together a diverse nation, mainly because such a society couldn’t possibly wield power.
Tocqueville’s predictions [...]
Carrot Ginger Soup
Ingredients:
2 Tbs Unsalted Butter (or whatever you have)
1.5 cup Onion, diced (roughly 2 sm-med onions or 1 large)
10-12 Carrots Peeled and sliced (4 cups)
1.5 Tbs Fresh Ginger, grated
4 cups Chicken Broth (fat free if you wish)
0.25 cup Orange Juice
1.5 cup Milk
1.5 cup Heavy Cream
Salt
Paprika
Sour Cream
Parsley, Chopped
Melt butter in a large Saucepan. Add onion and [...]
Here’s a list of Windows tasks from AnswersThatWork. This just helped me disable QAGENT, the Intuit Quicken background download manager, which had started complaining of some missing file.
Just spoke to Washington Mutual, the current holder of my mortgage. They had someone who actually could give me information about the situation.
The type of load I need is called a blanket loan, which will cover refinancing the current apartment and taking out a mortgage on the new one. Since WaMu holds the [...]
There’s a fire on Staten Island. It appears to be an oil refinery fire near the Outerbridge Crossing in the southwestern part of the island. Here are some photos from my office building:
The window’s a bit dirty, so there might be specks in the first two photos. The sky is also hazy.