Binarynomad

• Ooo, thermal underwear can be your friend too, thank you REI. #

• Morning rituals….(now where am I going to find a live chicken…) #
• Doing the happy dance (my friends Magenta Josh are back in town for the next few days.) #

• Checking out a new cafe in Alameda, catching up on my RSS feeds, and enjoying a nice warm day. #
• I for one, welcome our new robotic overlords: http://tinyurl.com/2r3bfr #

• Cooking up some blackbeans with sausage, onion, garlic, jalapeno, wine, rice. First attempt #
• Wrapped up in bed, keeping my toes warm, sipping tea and munching on cranberry pound cake while chatting the beautiful people. (pretty … #
• Ok, I’m way to geeky, I just decoded the message in this http://xkcd.com/99/ (it’s so cute) #
• @Sportyspice, I’m going to have to agree with you 60,000 messages and I still don’t get @philosoful #
• I know someone somewhere invented electric socks, and right now I’d pay a small fortune to help my poor frozen toes. *wiggle* #

• Kicking back at a cafe, reading articles. #
• Choosing a screencasting software, looking for free stock photos and music. #

Lately I’ve been having fun watching the short howtos at 5min.com. I’m very much a monkey see monkey do kinda person. It’s much easier for me to pick up something after seeing it done. I also know that in integral part of learning something it to try and teach it.

So I’m looking into getting screencasting software so I can start building tech tutorials and how-tos, both for fun and growth. I’m also trying to think of real life things I’d like to post up (perhaps my cooking tests), but that will also require me to find some video recorder, my digital camera does video, but it lays out DV at 100mb/min (HORRIBLE rate). Although I have a 2gig card, so that is about 20 min(ish), still, I might want to find another recording source.

I’m trying to get on the blogging band wagon again. I’ve recently discovered Twitter and am actually liking it quite a bit. It’s kinda like blogging lite. No large commitment, quick snippets from (im, sms, email, widgets, or web) It’s kinda fun, and I’ve found a way to plug them into my blog.

You can find my twitter feed here http://twitter.com/binarynomad

In other news, I’ve been trying to cook more at home, tonight I experimented with a can of beans and ended up with this:

Ingredients

• black beans (1 can, 1/2 juice replaced with water)
• sausage (1-2, chopped)
• onion (1/2, red, chopped)
• garlic (4-5 cloves, chopped)
• jalapeno (1, deseeded, sliced)
• olive oil (a few tbs)
• butter (1 pad, chopped)
• salt and spices
• red wine
• rice (2 cups, cooked)

Steps

1. Heat the (oil) over (medium) in a pot.
2. Toss in the (sausage), brown it a bit (5 min).
3. Toss in the (onion), (garlic), and 1/2 the (jalapeno), cook till translucent.
4. Pour in a splash of (red wine), cook for a few more min.
5. Toss in the (beans), (jalapeno), and (butter), add water if needed.
6. Simmer for (2 hours), add (salt) and (spices) to taste, maybe another splash of (wine).
7. Serve over rice.

It really turned out great, warms the insides and has that home comfort food feeling.

I’m heading off to breakfast tomorrow with Si, may check up on Morgan (she caught the cold that has been going around) and then Bob in the afternoon (who just got over the cold).

• Helping a friend find out if their computer is infected with a Trojan #
• Working on MacHeist, WP->LJ, Quicksilver->Twitter, Twitter widgets, and Firefox plugins. Sometimes I get easily overwhelmed. #
• Just got "Twidget" the Twitter Dasboard widget up and running #
• Just got "Twidget" the Twitter Dasboard widget up and running #
• Test from Twidget #

• Kicking back in bed, creating a website for a client. #
• Playing with VMware machines #

• Mmmmm…fresh cooked rice and Trader Joe’s Thai Green curry (hopefully the spice will clear my head) #
• Hey, I feel a bit better today, could this be the upswing? Go airborne! #