Post two for today. I made some squid yummy. It is one of my favorite recipes. I kind of just cook it so there is no exact recipe but its something like fresh squid part, tomato paste, carrots, cinnamon, clove, olive oil and some garlic.

Put a bunch of olive oil in a pot with some tomato paste and a bit of water. Cook it a bit, then add the squid, some cinnamon and some chopped garlic. Throw in some chopped carrots and simmer for a while to reduce. Then eat it.

Here it is cooking


Serve it over a potato, weird but tasty.


Based on my grandmother's recipe for chicken gizzards.

(e:matthew) found this box of porn in the church recycle pile the other day. I have never seen so much porn in one place outside of a porn store. It is especially weird because they are all very recent and apparently there was more than one box this big, the other one was left for the recycle dudes who apparently enjoyed it.

Look at this pile


Spread wide. To bad its all the wrong kind of porn for any of us.


I went through a lot of trouble to censor this so be happy or unhappy about that.

The one had this acticle called "Chunky whisperer" in which a cowboy got with heavier set ladies in a barn. I think it was a parody of the "Horse Whisperer."



The text went on an on about him stuffing her with twinkies and hohos. But then it got really twisted and he cracked a raw egg on her. What does it take to let yourself be in a porn like that? Raw freakin' egg.


In their freakin' eyes?

The building on Main street that I reported about last week (e:paul,40420) continues to fall in on itself. Word on the street is that the roof collapsed and the floors below collapsed because of that. You can really see it all collapsed on the inside from the street. Now they have it blocked off. It is a DANGER! according to the police and probably according to everyone.


I wonder what is going to happen with it. It seems like gutting it would be really hard considering it is a pile of fallen debris and floors. Even the basement floor is missing. Apparently, this is what happens when you ignore roof repair and the weather gets in. Is there going to just be a big giant whole in main street across from the Amherst subway station?!



I suppose something has to be done soon.

I finally got my phone back but these pics are from before the phone came back. If you have a sprint Pocket PC 6700 and need a new operating system I got it. Lots of new features, same old phone. Its like getting a free upgrade. You never really realize how much software plays a role in the lifespan of hardware. I took them with as still shots of the mobile video cam on my nokia n800 so excuse the quality it was never meant for photography.

I was really sad to say goodbye to my first computer desk. It is amazing how long we stayed together. I had it since my first commodore vic 20 back in the mid 80s ;( It really just had no where to go anymore and laptops kind of made the desk obsolete. Plus it was ugly as hell.

I got a call at work today asking me if I was interested in a job at Yahoo. (e:twisted) seems to be sold on me taking it, but I find it hard to imagine I could live as fancy a life as I do here even if I was making a lot more money. Like I only have to get up twenty minutes before work here and there is a ~5min commute not to mention I live in a freakin' mansion.

They found me via my online resume

The ideal candidate will have a strong command of web standards and developing applications, CSS-driven/table-less HTML layouts, DHTML (JavaScript 1.0-1.5, CSS1 & CSS2, DOM Levels 0-2), PHP, Unix, HTTP (get/post, headers), Apache, cross-browser compatibility & browser degradation strategies, optimization techniques (both in file weight and perceived/actual rendering speed), object-oriented design, unit testing & debugging techniques, dynamic content retrieval, state management, accessibility techniques, and internationalization issues.

The candidate will be taking static mocks and flash prototypes from the designer and working with the team to produce a working prototype.

The environment is fast-paced with numerous user-centered iterative design & development cycles. You'll be responsible for building everything from proof-of-concepts and usability prototypes to deployment-quality code viewed by tens of millions of users.
If you're interested, please provide URLs and code samples of your work.
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

I guess it is something to think about. I mean it would be tremendously exciting to work on code that is used by millions of people and to work with people on the cutting edge of the industry and with the resources to make really exciting stuff happen. But what if Yahoo tanks and Microsoft bought it ;(

I can't believe how valuable my second life money from 2003 has become. I used to have so much of it and kept just giving it away. If only I knew it would be worth so much someday.

This is my current account balance in Linden Dollars and it's US dollar value if I sold it now.



And this is after I already sold half of it. Today I actually sold a very tiny 16m of virtual land I owned from a long time ago for 34 US dollars. I wish I had realized this all before as I sold some super undervalued land in the past.


While considering some land deals I stopped at a dance party. It was pretty fun. Unfortunately, it was a best of biker avatars contest and I didn't have on of those.





Over one plot of my land where I allowed building someone made this thing that shoots out pictures of a drugged out sponge bob, square pants that constantly screams, weird.