lots of donuts in the office today. instead of feeling guilty i made graphikz
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Whether by design or because someone had dropped out, Laboa hadn’t informed Bowien until the last minute that he’d be competing, too. Now Danny stood there, -staring at the prescribed ingredients—basil, olive oil, sea salt, garlic, Pecorino, and pine nuts. He had made pesto in the restaurant, but only in five-gallon batches using a food processor, never with a mortar and pestle. All around him, chefs were sweating centuries of traditional training on how to do pesto the correct way. Bowien’s mind instead went to what he dislikes about most pestos—how they separate into broken pools of oil surrounding herbal sludge, how the heat generated by a smashing pestle or whirring blade gives the basil a blasted, acrid taste. What, he thought, if I treat this more like a Spanish aioli—or, better yet, a vinaigrette? So he put the pine nuts, salt, and garlic in the mortar and started gently adding the oil and basil, using the pestle more like a whisk than a club. The result was shimmering, bright green, and fresh-tasting. Just before the judging, he tightened up the emulsion by folding in the cheese.
He won the damn thing.
”— read this great profile of Danny Bowein (of Mission Chinese Food) on GQ. You don’t have to be a chef to relate to the themes of craftsmanship and creativity.
“If anyone had told me I would wind up married to a much younger Asian woman, with no interest in show business, I’d have told them they were crazy. All I would go out with were little blond actresses, or women who did something in show business. Suddenly I find myself with a woman whose interest in life is teaching learning-disabled children, who is not interested in show business, who is much my junior and doesn’t know many of the references from my life experience. She’s a wonderful person and makes me very very happy. It’s interesting how little you know about yourself as you go through life. I think, my God, why didn’t I meet her sooner, I would have had so many more years of happiness.”
— excerpted from Life Itself
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Markus Amm, Coin-study, 2008
arrested by this photo.
as a UI person, i’ve been obsessed with matte black lately, so this fits right in.
in love with katrin coetzer’s illustrations. found via missmoss, who i’m starting to think shares my brain.
“Kindness” covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
— Roger Ebert
“The key to building relationships is vulnerability.”
— Neil Blumenthal, founder of Warby Parker
