Archive for February, 2008

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Herban Gardening

Posted by Greg T. on February 26th, 2008 in Food, New York

urban gardening

I’ve always had a penchant for yard work and gardening. I grew up taking care of a 1/3 acre yard of shurbs, bushes, fruit trees and weeds. I think I did 6 hours of watering a week. I’m very proficient with lopping shears and a 5HP chipper shredder. I bought a spade headed shovel and a rake in college just to do some yard work around our rented duplex.

So it comes as no suprise that I need some sort of contact with plant life to balance out the urban fever. I have an indoor bonsai I bought online and had shipped UPS 2-day. I now also have an herb garden…well what will eventually be an herb garden–scallions, thyme, rosemary, mint and *hopefully* Thai basil. Yahooo.

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A nice bento

Posted by Greg T. on February 26th, 2008 in Food

Mentai Salmon

Mentai salmon. Makes a great brown bagger. Just add rice (and maybe a little furikake or goma).

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A bit of Snow

Posted by Greg T. on February 26th, 2008 in New York

Astor place cube with snow

It snowed last week. I get giddy about inclement weather be it stomping rain or pellety snow. It might be the fact that I’ve been conditioned to associate snow and cold with fun?  I took my time getting to work do a little much needed shooting and a some point and shoot videoing.  Above is the Astor Place cube on Thursday.

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Pasta Hanger

Posted by Greg T. on February 23rd, 2008 in Food

pasta hangar

I made fresh noodles last night. This photo is from a little while back but it illustrates the scene pretty well. They suggest hanging your pasta to dry so that you can store it and cook it later. However, I wouldn’t recommend leaving fresh dried pasta out as I think the raw egg pasta gave me food poisoning. Cook fresh pasta right away or store it by freezing it.

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Ajaxy comments

Posted by Greg T. on February 21st, 2008 in Food, Nerd Stuff

blood orange

Here’s a blood orange I ate.

I was able to get ajaxy commenting working it its most primitive state. Still need to do some clean up of styles and fix navigation. 2:30am on a school night? Uh oh.

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New Year, New Blog

Posted by Greg T. on February 20th, 2008 in Nerd Stuff, New York, Videos

I’ve undertaken the task of overhauling the blog. You’ll notice a slightly different look, but with completely different guts. Tomorrow night’s task is ajaxy window blinds in-page commenting.

A little while back it was Chinese New Year(s?). Chinatown fills up to the brim with confetti. At first I thought there was a some sort of parade, but soon found out that the confetti was from these awesome party poppers, see below.

They ranged from $5 to $10, and were between 1 foot and 3 feet in length. Some had parachutes with good fortune messages where a toy soldier should be. I apparently twisted mine the wrong way and almost took my pink off with the explosive charge.