July 2008
45 posts
License To Wed
Went to get the Marriage License today. If you ever need a fix of fancy typefaces, this is where you should go. The license is also another exercise in annoying stupidity, at least here in Cuyahoga County. All you need to bring is a driver’s license and $40 (if you’ve never been divorced, over 18, and know your SSN), both people must be there. Try to find that little bit of info online...
“highlight doubt that…”
– Cleveland Browns Camp @ Dawgs By Nature
As football (and fantasy football) season revs up I’m reading more sports blogs, and MAN are they terrible writers. The number of incorrectly used or heard idioms is staggering, so I’m going to start collecting them and feeling superior.
After dinner...
The fiancée and I drove around the East Side a bit after dinner. Looked at changes in the Cedar-Lee area and Coventry, then down through Little Italy. We decided to grab a drink at the Euc before heading home. Boy is that place a disappointment. All the grottiness is gone, no beer in old apple juice bottles, playing satellite radio on a 70s/80s classic rock station… absolutely nothing...
Saravá
Had some small plates at Saravá last night, my first visit. The soup special — a chilled avacado number — is probably the best liquid I’ve ever consumed. Man we have a lot of good restaurants in this town.
Pub On Lee →
Appears the Pub On Lee is re-opened, which is interesting. That’s a good thing, and I can’t imagine how it closed. Fickle JCU students or greedy owners, I guess.
Cool Guide to C-town →
Clearly written by a westsider.
“The other night I dined with Cleveland GM Phil Savage on the outdoor patio of...”
– MMQB by Peter King - SI.com
Never have to see the day again...
I first heard this song on REM’s Tourfilm… which I watched and re-watched a LOT in high school. And most recently by Rilo Kiley. Last year someone linked to the Gondry movie that uses it extensively… wacky stuff.
There is something magical and pure about the tune… and the idea of that magic being the insulated and illicit environment of drinking in a bar after last call is...
After Hours @ Bar Cento →
Enigmatic.
I’m heading over to dine at BC this evening — wonder what fabulous news Chef Sawyer has to fête?
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Sitting here doing some work with Food Tv on in the background. Is there any more stark contrast of shows than Jamie Oliver’s Jamie At Home and Sandra Lee’s Semi-Homemade? Jamie gets batter and olive oil all over his hands as he uses ingredients from his amazing garden and quick versions of professional culinary techniques to make amazing food. Sandra Lee looks like she’s going...
Aarrrrrrrron in C-town →
Aaron Sanchez seems to have a cooking class going on tonight. We ate at Zocalo a week or two ago and it is much improved. It was Chi-chi’s level before, now it’s interesting and well-executed.
PS Too busy now to get the correct accents on the correct letters
PPS Dee Perry scares the bejesus out of me. I think I’m going as her on Halloween
PPPS Dude is from El Paso, originally
The balcony is closed @ Roger Ebert's Journal →
Gene and I stared at each other in horror. “What was one of your favorite movies this year?” he asked me. “Gone With the Wind,” I said.
In other movie news...
I saw The Rocker last night in a free screening. It was at the lovely downtown Tower City Cinemas, always guaranteed to be sticky. It’s the kind of theater where bail-bondsmen advertise.
The movie is set in Cleveland, which was amusing. Did you know you can look out of your window in an inner ring suburb at the roving spotlights of the Rock Hall? Well, you can in this movie. More seriously,...
New 'At the Movies' Hosts @ CNN.com →
I give them one, two seasons tops.
Ebert & Roeper... without either →
Phillips has been decent but the show is just weird now.
Grilling @ Heights Eats →
Interesting tips on grilling, some of which I knew and some I did not (mostly around the BBQ vs. Grilling distinction).
Garlic frosting @ Erin O'Brien →
Look an Aioli fan!
Just in time for me to learn that “garlic aioli” is actually redundant.
Percent-encoding @ Wikipedia →
Ran into a weird issue with a third-party product at work.
Turns out using a plus (+) as a substitute for spaces in URLs (instead of the percent-encoding of %20) is one of those old, poorly specified things the web did before we had cool things like CSS, PHP, and decent specifications kicking around.
This vendor’s software doesn’t support it, yet Gmail still uses it when encoding...
It's not just low-class, it's delicious
I’ve made a couple of flavored mayonnaises recently — pesto and curry (and I didn’t make them the hard way, though I’ve done that before, just mixed pre-packed stuff). However I know someone who thinks they don’t like mayonnaise so is embarrassed that I called them mayo instead of, say, an aioli.
Aioli != Mayo
Are you ready (to wait a couple months) for some... →
Relatively content-free but amusing if just for the line:
“You consider yourself a “free thinker,” which somehow involves lots of henna tattoos, energizing crystals, and angry phone calls from creditors.”
Bureaucracy Buster
Sent in my passport on July 1, needed it by Oct 1, which is the 90day window they say is the max. I meant to send earlier since I’d heard things were slowed down. It was actually pretty pleasant. About two month before I took my own pics digitally and printed those out. Easy peasy. Then I went and began my renewal. First interesting thing was that there’s a new form of ID — a...
Ego surfing twitter →
Shitcool →
Pardon my French, but this is extremely cool.
Great Lakes @ Google Search →
#1 search result: Great Lakes Brewing Company.
Clayton Likes Browns QBs' Early Prep →
Everyone mentions that the completion percentages for our QBs was up (read they were around 60% last year, well into the 70s this year) in OTAs, but they forget that everyone thinks our secondary is crappy this year. Who do they think we’re practicing against?
HB2
Saw Hellboy 2 Sunday afternoon. Did a lot of napping. Disappointing.
War Games Anniversary →
“What are you doing, Joshua…”
Thoroughly Broken User Interface
Since I’ve spent the last eleven or twelve years working in technology and the world has spent the last eleven or twelve years learning to use web sites, I’ve gotten to work closely with web designers pretty often. I dabble with that and often think about UI design which can apply in the real world as well as the web.
When marriage prep began I knew I wanted to try my hand at fixing...
Pasta with egg @ ruhlman.com →
Beautious. I was also taken with the idea when I saw it on ICA.
(If I didn’t mention this was a great episode because it had THE RETURN of Ruhlman, Knowlton and Arpaia as judges from the Next Iron Chef. They were the best tasting table I’ve seen)
Our Lady Of Sparrows →
The Big Picture @ Boston.com →
This blog is all about amazing pics about some subject. Here they’re of the CA fire workers. Besides being visually amazing, it’s surprising to see that these fire jumpers get to create fires with a cool gun, and House apparently works there part-time.
Get your motor runnin'/Head out on the Clearview...
So I’m designing a map to print out, and I want to make larger Interstate icons to label the roads. You know, the shield in red white and blue. I grab that image and wipe out the current road number, and as I go to insert the correct interstate number I recall a story earlier this year about a new font that was designed for roadway signs. It’s called Clearview Hwy, and the research and...
Uncommonly Good Chef Sawyer Interview →
Update: I should point out it’s an uncommonly bad video player — besides blowing up the video to full screen which pixelates the hell out of it, it cut out about a minute or two before the end on me and after a reload WOULD NOT allow me to move to where I was. Annoying.
Pumpernickel? I don't even know her... nickel?
Just read an intriguing post about a local bread-making class. I’ve been interested in bread-making but only tried once. Coincidentally, perhaps, I made pumpernickel and was always pleased to tell everyone that it is really just rye bread with cocoa to make it dark. Well, the Wikipedia article there will tell you that this is merely American pumpernickel, and that Old World pumpernickel is...
Reasons I Think I Like Peter King
Peter King, sports (and particularly NFL) writer extraordinaire, comes to the rescue again.
The best thing that happened to Sirius NFL Radio this off-season was Peter King joining the morning show twice a week. I always switch over at 8am to see if he’ll be on, because he is not only more informed than average, he’s less bombastic than most of the hosts and also less dogmatic. Sure,...
Quick! Someone call Gordon Lightfoot! →
Modern Rock 500 @ WOXY →