It has been hectic this past week, hence the lack of activity here. I took the time this weekend to upgrade to the new version of WordPress1 and for the first time ever felt let down. On another blog the entire process just stopped. I carried on and hand-rolled it, because I was in the middle of t...
Saturday morning found me at Santa Maria in Trastevere. Having never really paid them any attention, I found the bits of old inscription decorating the portico interesting as visual objects. So I snapped a few, focusing on those that contained birds, and very sweet they were too.
More or less si...
Did the cheese thing again yesterday, but unscientifically changed two variables. I was much more gentle with the curds, ladling them out quietly into a colander and letting them drain under their own steam. That seemed to be a good thing, leaving soft and quivering curds that formed a single mass...
The best part about walking the Aurelian Walls is that one is on foot. Porta Maggiore is a scary nightmare of about 8 lanes of traffic (lanes being a completely inappropriate description, because it denotes a certain measure of order) going in four or five different directions. I had driven throug...
Because he pointed me to this video.
And now I'm being sucked into a vortex of appalling “scientific” music videos. Alas, the “making” video to accompany that wonderful effort above doesn’t give any of the details I truly want. Are those all employees of the company? How many have PhDs. Is it...
