http://www.zoiks.net/blog Just another bloggity blog Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:51:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey wow, it's 2010 now.  Happy new year. I'm probably not going to post here a whole lot anymore.  It just never quite worked right as a way for me to communicate.  I am still very active online, though. Here is where I've gone: twitter - my activity stream. Twitter has largely replaced ... http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2010/01/01/happy-new-year/ Jenny started a new food blog. There will be much food porn there. http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2009/01/25/jennys-food-blog/ After seeing this essay about shaving make the rounds for the 3rd or 4th time, I decided that I should actually try it.  So, this morning I tried shaving with nothing more than hot water and a fresh blade.  Much to my amazement, it seems to have worked just fine.  ... http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2009/01/07/shaving-cream/ ... so of course they pick that time to break.  My backups server at home (wakko), which is a mac mini, decided to melt its internal hard drive on about Dec 31.  Sadly it took me until Jan 4 to notice, because I don't have ironclad enterprise-grade monitoring of my ... http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2009/01/07/the-machines-know-when-im-away/ I can't sleep.  It sucks.  I've been having pretty goddamn strange dreams lately, too.  What to do?  Blog about it, obviously. p.s. mom, you're not allowed to scold me for being awake at 4:30AM until after I've gone back to Boston. http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2008/12/29/insomnia/ http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2008/12/07/snow/ Jenny has posted her Sweet Potato Casserole recipe.  Enjoy!  This is a completely fantastic thing, as long as you don't screw up and boil the sweet potatoes like I did the first time I tried to make it. http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2008/11/26/sweet-potato-casserole/ Thanksgiving feasts 1 through 3 are now complete.  A friend here decided it would be awesome to throw a pre-thanksgiving celebration party, such that we could get together and cook up a storm without any of the family politics and ritual involved in the more traditional Thanksgiving gatherings that ... http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2008/11/24/pre-thanksgiving/ Have you ever heard what happens when a cat jumps onto a running record player? I just did. It's pretty awesome. http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2008/07/19/phonomeow/ My new apartment is to the point where I'm not entirely ashamed of its appearance anymore.  It's still a mess of moving boxes, and we don't have a couch, but I took some pictures anyway.  Click through for photos. (click images for captions, and again for fullsize images. This gallery arrangement ... http://www.zoiks.net/blog/2008/05/25/starting-to-settle-in/