I continue to work on bread. It’s a tricky one, but I think I am slowly absorbing the Zenlike secret of good baking, which is to say it usually turns out great when I don’t care, and terrible when I’m really trying hard to make good bread.
Here’s my latest:

How’s the crumb, you ask? Behold my [...]

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I’ve been working on bread lately. Here’s a good one!

 
I bought a peel on Amazon, and decided to try it out by making some pizza. I hoped the peel would help dough to stick less, but it was still thoroughly sticky. Either I’m not using enough cornmeal or I have to grease it or something, [...]

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It went pretty well. Going to the Pearl St. Whole Foods the weekend before the Christmas holiday, was, in retrospect, bad news. The store was a total madhouse. Not to mention their terrible parking lot. But, the meal went off pretty well. I made it essentially as described in my previous post. I didn’t have [...]

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Really, I like to cook anything, but specifically, I enjoy cooking French food. It doesn’t hurt that I love to eat and have no aversion to butter. I’ve also been lacking in blog inspiration, and was thinking about trying to generate more posts. Finally, I recently saw Julie/Julia, and imitation being the highest form of [...]

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This post is for friends who I’m running a local Call of Cthulthu game with.

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This post is a summary of a Call of Cthulthu session I ran with some friends last month. It’s intended as an introduction for new players at our next session, or a refresher to the players from the last session. A subsequent post will introduce important background for the next game.

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My coworker Grace recently blogged about the reality of personal branding on the internet in these, our modern times, citing an MSNBC article about a Cisco interviewee who tweeted about his potential job before it materialized. I couldn’t help but start thinking about the way the internet has changed since I was young, and the [...]

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I would tell you one of my resolutions is to post more, but I’d be lying. Suffice it to say that I’ll do my best.

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I haven’t posted in a while, because life has been busy! Aside from all the usual work stuff, over the past few months I’ve been wrapping up some long-term personal goals in the form of buying a house. I’m very happy to announce that as of yesterday, I’m a homeowner. Huge success.
A couple years ago [...]

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Tara asked me to try to do some guest posting. As she gets pulled into conferences and other community catalyst (it’s her title!) type tasks, it’s nice to have some blog posts “in reserve”. I decided to do a small and very basic series on website optimization. You can find the first post here and [...]

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