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February 23 2012
Cooking dinner: Tofu and veggies in peanut sauce
I’ve been trying to cook a bit more lately and tried out this recipe for tofu and veggies in peanut sauce tonight. It was pretty awesome! The peanut sauce was especially tasty.
And of course, it went perfect with copious amounts of Sriracha.
We slightly modified the ingredients though and added garlic and and replaced the molasses with honey. The new recipe?
Ingredients
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1 small head broccoli, chopped
1 small red bell pepper, chopped
5 fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 pound firm tofu, cubed
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup hot water
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon of garlicDirections
1. Heat oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Saute broccoli, red bell pepper, mushrooms, garlic, and tofu for 5 minutes.
2. In a small bowl combine peanut butter, hot water, vinegar, soy sauce, and honey. Pour over vegetables and tofu. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes, or until vegetables are tender crisp.
I've been trying to cook a bit more lately and tried out this recipe tonight. It was pretty awesome!
February 22 2012
Pun Hunting at the Grocery Store
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Winter in San Francisco
This image from over a year ago at Dolores Park in San Francisco is especially relevant today. Blue skies, mid 60′s, an otherwise perfect day!
February 21 2012
Exploring Oakland
Last summer, Kerry and I moved into the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland. For one reason or another, life has been pretty busy over the past 6 months, leaving us little time to explore our “new” city.
Well, that ended today! We set out to Jack London Square and the Warehouse District for some good eats at Chop Bar. It was pretty good! According to various tips on Foursquare, they serve the “best hamburgers in all of the East Bay.” It’s definitely on my todo list for next time.
Walking around Jack London Square, we discovered some tall ships docked in the harbor.
Then there was this awesome statue of Cheemah, Mother of the Spirit-Fire — it’s part of a worldwide project to celebrate ” cultural diversity, world unity and care for the earth.” Awesome!
After that, we walked around Old Oakland. The buildings have this beautiful old architecture about them and the whole neighborhood was just awesome. So, obviously, the only thing I took a picture of was a sign. D’oh! Time to go back.
From there, we walked back to our neighborhood in North Oakland. Interestingly enough, the Oakland North blog is running a series on the history of the Temescal District today.
Speaking of Temescal history, earlier this weekend, some friends and I explored the Kingfish Pub, an old dingy dive bar in the neighborhood. Some commenters on Yelp have claimed that it’s the “second oldest bar in Oakland,” but I’ve yet to find an official verification of this source.
The SF Gate wrote about it last year:
It’s a mystery what, exactly, keeps the Kingfish from collapsing.
The roof sags, the beams lean, the floors slope more than some East Bay hills.
“The whole place is twisted. There’s nothing square in it,” said owner Emil Peinert. “One of the windows just popped out.”
The Kingfish Pub in its natural environment:
All in all, it was a pretty fun weekend in the East Bay and I’ve found myself loving it more and more. Others have mentioned that Oakland is San Francisco’s own Brooklyn. I believe it!
It’s fun. Does this mean I’m about to start saying “hella” though? Maybe not quite yet. 
February 14 2012
World First Ever flying formation with Boeing 737s
I just favorited the following video on YouTube:
February 13 2012
Somebody That I Used To Know – WOTE Parody! Key of Awesome #55!
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February 11 2012
Chuck Ragan and Jon Gaunt – California Burritos (Live at The Grist Mill)
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February 05 2012
February 03 2012
January 31 2012
Penguins play in the snow at the St. Louis Zoo
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January 29 2012
January 26 2012
It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Apple Cult
Via: http://techland.time.com/2012/01/26/can-we-stop-talking-about-the-apple-cult-now/
Thirty-seven million iPhones. Fifteen million iPads. Fifteen million iPods. Five million Macs. A million Apple TVs. No matter how you do the math, that’s a boatload of gadgets–and it’s how many Apple sold in the final three months of 2011. The company’s profits–$13.06 billion–were the second-highest in the history of American business, after ExxonMobil’s last quarter of 2008.
But I don’t care about Apple’s bottom line. What I find fascinating about these big numbers is what they say about the size of Apple’s customer base. It’s enormous, and still growing. And the larger it becomes, the weirder it gets that some people reflexively dismiss Apple owners as empty-headed, style-obsessed cult members.
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