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We tried a new recipe. Pretty quick and very tasty, and Bryan liked it even though it was full of olives. It’s a good sauce to make on Monday and eat all week. Spicy, tangy, delicious.

Pasta Puttanesca
Ingredients
1.5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup black olives, such as Gaeta or nicoise, rinsed, pitted, and [...]

One of my favorite things about the iPhone is that if I take a photo with the phone and assign it to a contact, it shows me a full screen-shot whenever they call me. (Yes, the bells and whistles are still awfully impressive to me, probably due to my use of an antiquated Nokia until [...]

I feel like a python that just ate a deer.
Thanksgiving is a beautiful holiday.

So I finally broke down and joined facebook, waaay after it was cool, and then some of my actual current friends joined, so that embarrassing pictures of me could begin to surface. And then, all of three weeks later, facebook went and got all freaky and sinister with the advertising. Why can’t someone just make [...]

Can you snap better with you non-dominant hand? Why is this?

I’m a big proponent of more art and music in secondary education, but I’ve never gotten quite as excited about the idea of more, say, programming classes.
So I was at work today and this happened:
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It’s just basic Excel. But still. Somehow I ended up being responsible for such things. So much for [...]

I flew down to LA for the day on Monday to attend 2 hours of meetings with this client (I can’t believe I have clients). It was the first time I’d been there since I was learning to teach 8th grade in Watts, and I’d forgotten what a weird collection of people it attracts. On [...]