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☆F☆R☆A☆N☆C☆E
This might be the first in a series of posts. I’m not sure if it’s one of those things that is only interesting to me and my nineties teen nostalgia. Even so it might be of some anthropological use?...
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Cohabitation Calculation, Version 1.0
Todd and I have been living together for four years this summer. For a long time our method of settling up joint expenses was a magnetic notepad on the fridge with a pencil in a clippy magnet right...
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For Your Reference: Beware the Link Builders
This is a public service announcement! I have been getting queries about our library’s website that I am kind of tired of… tactics used by SEO trolls to get links. Usually you can smell a V1a9ra-style...
View ArticleRestaurants of 2012, in alphabetical order
Many of the things I put in my mouth this year, from midtown on down. Starred ones are the best or notable for some reason. Amorina Ample Hills Creamery Arby’s: horsey sauce > donkey sauce The...
View ArticleBooks read in 2012, in subject order
These are all library books with one or two exceptions. are books I would recommend, generally. are things I read electronically! Turns out it pretty much evened out between print and e-consumption —...
View ArticleMovies of 2012, in reverse chronological order
Some really tedious stuff this year. This is why I have no attention span for movies anymore. And I saw Batman for the first time! Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012) The Master (2012) Sleepwalk...
View ArticleCooking of 2012, in alphabetical order
I think if you compare last year’s recipe list with this one, the main difference will be the vast increase in meat. I have always been something of a flexitarian and only ate meat a couple times a...
View ArticleChicken for lazy people
My chickephiphany, if you will. I have been trying to get more protein recently, and I have to say that for whatever reason chicken has always been kind of a pain for me to deal with. I like making...
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Stracciatella for lazy people
Stracciatella is soup, people — I’m not making chocolate truffles or gelato. Hopefully you have some homemade chicken stock in your freezer. Okay. Put it in the pot! This is less of a recipe than what...
View ArticleMeat Cheat Sheet
This week at work we had a health fair and if you signed up for a health screening you can get some kind of rebate on insurance. So far I have not been able to shut up about the fact that my HDL is off...
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Behind the NYPL Tweetwall
I am addicted to Twitter. I tweet a bit, but I am much more interested in hearing the conversations going on in the crowds I follow (librarians, media and content nerds, funny people) and the crowds of...
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How to Get Offline with Google Maps
Point of interestIf you do a Google search for “google maps offline” or “offline maps” you will read about “1 weird trick” that someone discovered for caching the current state of a map view for use...
View ArticleBooks Read in 2013, in subject order
Pretty much all library books again this year. are books I really liked and would recommend. are things I read electronically! Compared to 2012′s 43 books (excluding cookbooks) with 20 ebooks, 2013 was...
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For Your Reference: Beware the Link Builders
This is a public service announcement! I have been getting queries about our library’s website that I am kind of tired of… tactics used by SEO trolls to get links. Usually you can smell a V1a9ra-style...
View ArticleMedia consumed in 2014
I didn’t meet my reading goal last year. Planning a wedding, coming up with ridiculous craft ideas, and buying into a co-op consumed most of my reading and personal research time, but now that that’s...
View ArticleBooks Read in 2015
This year I stopped using Daytum and switched to LibraryThing for book reading management. It just makes more sense to keep a record of all the years there. Funny thing is I am probably like user #43...
View ArticleBooks of 2016
Nonfiction Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health by Justin Sonnenburg Perfumes:...
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@NYPLEmoji Bot
Back in January of 2016 my colleagues in NYPL Digital + NYPL Labs were conspiring together to generate big excitement around the public domain release of over 180k images. I helped to create some...
View ArticleBooks of 2012
These are all library books with one or two exceptions. are books I would recommend, generally. are things I read electronically! Turns out it pretty much evened out between print and e-consumption —...
View ArticleBooks of 2017
Fiction Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison I Love Dick by Chris Kraus Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles The Girls by Emma Cline All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Everything Matters!: A Novel by Ron Currie...
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