November 2010
1 post
The Economist has a section on its website listing its guest contributors—handily titled “Economics by Invitation”—to which they have invited 55 guests. Two of these guests are women.
This is a complaint both about reality and about The Economist—but I definitely blame editorial choices like these for perpetuating the problem. And anyway they reinforce my...
July 2010
6 posts
I bought blueberries at the farmers’ market yesterday expressly to make blueberry muffins. I’m not a huge fresh blueberry fan but baked blueberries——mm.
So I found an appealing version at Simply Recipes to make. Unfortunately, I had misestimated the muffin tray I’d caught a glimpse of in our kitchen. Turns out there were only mini muffin trays which are so tiny...
I went to Mike’s Pastry last night—allegedly the best Italian bakery in Boston. They are most famous for their cannoli and they have a ton of different flavors, among those, amaretto, pistachio, and chocolate mousse. I tried two types: one yellow cream and one ricotta florentine (pictured below).
No picture of the yellow cream because it was finished yesterday, but I just ate the...
Aside from my interview experience (suit, suit, suit with the one patterned shell that works miraculously well with it) yesterday felt like my first adult dressing experience. Dress code was business attire/business casual per invitation. The club it was held at also had dress code on their site—checked because R was afraid he would be given a lender if he showed up without a sports coat....
Forgive the subpar photos and the dirty tablecloth—I’m working with photobooth here and, um, have no excuse for the tablecloth. Anyway: peach pie, my first pie in a new kitchen.
It’s a Food & Wine recipe but I used 2 store bought crusts (1 top, 1 bottom). The pie was good fresh and really good cold but somehow just not quite as flavorful and fruity as I was hoping for. :(
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Goodbye California tart. Lemon ricotta filling (Martha) with fresh strawberries. Cheesecake-y.
Amateurish attempt at food blogging, since amateurish cooking is what I’ve been doing for the last several weeks.
The plum pie I baked yesterday. With sweet piecrust from Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian and filling recipe from Martha Stewart. It came out a little too tart, so more sugar in my filling next time——and there was an incident with dripping juices...
June 2010
2 posts
I have missed a blog outlet surprisingly little in the last several months but being back in the Bay Area and in my absolutely final summer break is really giving me twinges of blogstalgia.
Think I’ll start reblogging again as a sort of halfway blogging home and see what happens.
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
3 posts
“We might model the spread of a story in terms of an epidemic. Stories are like viruses. Their spread by word of mouth involves a sort of contagion. Epidemiologists have developed mathematical models of epidemics, which can be applied to the spread of stories and confidence as well. For these models the essential parameters are the infection rate (a measure of the ability of the disease to...
“Ronald Tobias wrote in 1993 that there are just twenty fundamental plots, which he titled ‘quest, adventure, pursuit, rescue, escape, revenge, riddle, rivalry, underdog, temptation, metamorphosis, transformation, maturation, love, forbidden love, sacrifice, discovery, wretched excess, ascension, and descention.’”
—Akerlof & Shiller, Animal Spirits
February 2010
6 posts
January 2010
23 posts
economicsFAIL
“Baby selling may seem logically and inevitably to lead to baby breeding…However, so long as the market for eugenically bred babies did not extend beyond infertile couples and those with serious genetic disorders, the impact of a free baby market on the genetic composition and distribution of the human race at large would be small.”
“Economics of the Baby Shortage”...
“Notorious rapist climbs stage, is met with applause and loving jokes about how...”
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my google reader folders
econ fash film graphic hipsters meta pop ppl productivity soc organizationFAIL? brainFAIL? interestsFAIL? “Meta” has only one blog in it, nytpicker, which I couldn’t figure out where else to put. “Hipsters” is the newest folder because they were beginning to overrun and undermine the integrity of my “pop” folder—the behemoth of the group,...
music genres the village voice is declaring dead
I think they went a little overboard but I also learned about a lot of cool trends that (apparently) died before I heard of them — glo-fi?
1. Underground hip-hop (1998-2003)
2. Glitch (2000-2002)
3. The Return of the rock (2001-2002)
4. Electroclash (2001-2003)
5. Mash-ups (2001-2004)
6. Dance-punk (2002-2005)
7. Grime (2003-2006)
8. Freak-folk (2004-2006)
9. Hipster metal...
December 2009
31 posts
