Cameras
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Cameras
Ft. Pickens
Ft. Pickens
Lil Coop Sleeping on a Flip-Flop
Lil Coop Sleeping on a Flip-Flop
Prepping for the Beach Ride:
Prepping for the Beach Ride:
On Blue Angel weekend. Bridge is packed! CAUTION: Bumper to bumper traffic next 5 miles.
Sluggo's:
Sluggo’s:
The crowd at one of the Buzzin’ Eddie shows circa 2000.
I like this album. Especially Morgengruss.
I like this album. Especially Morgengruss.
Homestyle Salmon Curry with Indian Style Basmati Rice:
Homestyle Salmon Curry with Indian Style Basmati Rice:
This time I used yellow onions which made a huge difference. They brown better than white onions and are more flavorful. Also, I neglected the “salt to taste” part last time. I made sure not to miss that step this time. The salmon was seasoned with salt and pepper and seared on both sides to introduce a nice crust. It was then transferred to the curry for the remainder of the cooking time.
Rice recipe is here: allrecipes.com/recipe/indian-style-basmati-rice/Detail.aspx
The use of whole cinnamon sticks, cumin seeds and cardomom pods makes all the difference. Also, basmati rice cooked this way resembles the rice you eat at Indian restaurants. Firm and maintaining texture, whilst still being fully cooked.
Curried sweet potatoes with Spinach and chickpeas
Curried sweet potatoes with Spinach and chickpeas
Fish curry and palak paneer cooking
Fish curry and palak paneer cooking
Fish curry and palak paneer plated
Fish curry and palak paneer plated
Garlic teriyaki Stir fry with udon noodles
Garlic teriyaki Stir fry with udon noodles
Organizing with Groupings in iTunes
I’ve been trying to use groupings in iTunes lately to help narrow down finding what I want to hear. coversrc.com has helped a little by consolidating the places I go to find genres/styles/artwork.
Groupings in iTunes can be used for anything you want. I’ve found them to be particularly useful for granulizing genres. So, for instance, a track can be tagged with the genre of “Rock”, but what kind of Rock? Prog Rock? Classic Rock? The list can go on. There are a lot of distinguishing qualities between genres/styles.
One thing I noticed when I was inputting the groupings is that 2 groupings can exist independently of each other, therefore creating duplicate entries. For example, I can have a grouping called “Experimental, Minimal” and “Experimental, Noise”. iTunes has no way of separating these groupings so needless to say, this results in a lot of groupings. To help consolidate the groupings, I realized I needed to sort them. Rather than go through each track and sort its groupings, why not utilize my programming prowess.
I made a gist, then wanted to run it in the command-line without making a file. So, with the help of the pipe command you can alphabetize your groupings like so:
curl -s http://gist.github.com/231031.txt | rubyHow do you organize your music?
Calm Water:
Calm Water:
The water was like glass.
Grayton Beach State Park:
Grayton Beach State Park:
This reminded me of Myst.
Homemade Black Bean Soup:
Homemade Black Bean Soup:
With fresh cilantro and sour cream.
Looking Back:
Looking Back:
Looking back into the forest we emerged from.
Detecting Rails Versions Easily and Quickly
While doing some routine maintenance on our server, I needed a quick way to check which actual versions of Rails I needed. Over time, many versions are installed that can lead to wasted space and confusion later on. So, I whipped up a quick one-liner that I can run to give me all versions of Rails running on our server.
This returns all Rails gem versions in a neat, sorted array:
Time doesn't exist. Clocks exist.
Time doesn’t exist. Clocks exist.
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As Above, So Below
As Above, So Below
Beautiful Day on the Bay Side
Beautiful Day on the Bay Side