For Sara — a link to the recipe my Mom used for Gravad Lax. I recommend freezing the salmon in a very cold freezer for a few days as part of the preparation ( helps kill the parasites ).
Here’s the Crystallize effect from iMovie 6.0.3 with an interpolator added to the radius, starring Zeke.
Another New Year’s card find — this time from 1996, Year of the Rat. As with the previous card, this one is done with Print Gocco
Text:
Fiction by Vermin Vesse / Interview with Ratbert
The Ratlantic Mousely
January 1996
The New Underground Economy
The Economouse
Rodents In Congress
Taxes – Paying the Piper
Minnie Breweries
Happy Year of the Rat
Found this while cleaning up some junk today. 2002 was, of course, the Year of the Horse.
Staffan feels the XKCD influence:
All in all, I say “Bravo” to Sid the Science Kid.
I … Love … This … Language !!!
YouTube – Mad About English! – Official Theatrical Trailer 2008: “”
(Via Language Log.)
Seattle Opera Blog with Perry Lorenzo
Lots of good stuff at the Seattle Opera blog showing various aspects of the production of Midsummer Night’s Dream that Staffan is in. There’s some video, some slide shows, and especially some enlightening commentary about other productions and how this one compares.
The show is through April 5 at the Meydenbauer Theatre in Bellevue.
Here’s a link from the past: a review of MIT Dramashop‘s 1984 performance of The Long Voyage Home, in which I play a Soon-to-be Shanghaied Swedish sailor.
My Congregation, Prince of Peace Lutheran in Shoreline, voted today to become a Reconciling in Christ congregation. Yay us!
Big Box of Paints 