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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Long Island-bound
Charlotte and I are headed out to Long Island with several of our friends for this long weekend. Monday is Labor Day for those of us in the states, and I couldn’t put it any better than Futurama’s own Hermes: … Continue reading
Posted in Misc Rambling
Tagged beach, labor day, long island, long island railroad, mattituck, relaxing, train, trip, vacation
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Cocktail Creation – The Cloven Martini
Charlotte, my friend Gabe, and several others have noticed – and never fail to point out – that I get a disproportionate amount of pink drinks compared to the average, virile, testosterone-fueled man! I think the reason for this is … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drinks
Tagged booze, cloves, cocktails, drinks, framboise, gin, raspberry liquer, recipe, vermouth, vodka
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Review – The Darkness (Xbox 360)
The Short Version Platform: Xbox 360 One Word: Grim Two Words: Gleefully Brutal Worth It: Yes Scale: terrible | poor | fair | good | great The Long Version So, if my fiancée Charlotte was a little skeeved out by … Continue reading
cDebris Tutorial 002 – Making a Textured Button
Welcome to the second cDebris tutorial. Today we’ll be elaborating on some of the texturing tips mentioned in Tutorial 001 and combining them with some other easy Photoshop techniques to produce a rounded button that can then be used in … Continue reading
Posted in Web Design
Tagged background, graphics, photoshop, texture, tutorial, Web Design
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A Man Escaped
Last night, Charlotte and I frenched it up frenchtacularly. We started out by hitting up Steak Frites, a French bistro on 7th Ave and Varick St, just above Houston St. There we had frisee avec lardons et roquefort, and some … Continue reading
Tagged black and white, cinema, film, foreign, french, movie, Robert Bresson
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Books – James Church’s “A Corpse in the Koryo”
A Corpse in the Koryo: An Inspector O Novel by James Church My review rating: 3 of 5 stars One of my coworkers is married to an editor for St. Martin’s, and he came to a company party one time … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Books, church, james church, novels, reading, review, Writing
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The Omnivore’s Hundred
My lovely fiancée Charlotte, who maintains a blog of her own (in french – venture forth if you dare), keyed me in to this blog post and I thought it was interesting. The Omnivore’s 100. I quote: Below is a … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drinks
Tagged delicious, exotic, food, omnivore, scary, tasty, top 100
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Night Baseball on the Beach
We’re going to Coney Island tonight to take in a Brooklyn Cyclones game and, most likely, wander the boardwalk afterward. There’s a chance of rain but hopefully the storms will pass us by and we’ll get to spend the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Misc Rambling
Tagged baseball, charlotte, coney island, cyclones, flickr, keyspan park, minor league, wonder wheel
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