Month: January 2010

Will’s Chili

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Will made a big honking pot of chili from the ancestral Gadberry recipe. Oh my yes.

The Advocate: Atlanta Is The Gayest City

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The AJC reports that The Advocate ranks Atlanta as America’s gayest city! This makes me happy. There are several criteria apparently, and as a straight myself, I’m unaware of many of them—but it turns out Atlanta is gayer than San Francisco or New York! I’ll have to tell Tom Price, my Congressman. It should make … Read more

Flatiron Rising: 1902 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

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Shorpy posts vintage photos, with good quality and detail. Make sure to click through and look closely at the full-sized image. This is wonderful. My maternal grandmother, whom I am so happy to say I came to know pretty well, was about 2 years old in 1902—though living in Paris at the time. Having known … Read more

Push pins

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Slick

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Atlanta and North Georgia has just enough snow/slush on the roads, and falling temps, that many schools are closed tomorrow and other places opening late. It make sense, really – it means roads will be unpredictably icy in the morning and there’s little sand/salt/gravel to make things passable. Which means I’m sleeping in a bit … Read more

Plug Computers

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Have you played with one of these $100 network attached storage servers? I just found out about them today. They’re “Plug computers”—a solid-state wall-wart-sized low-power-drawing Linux server; attach a Gigabit Ethernet connection to your router and a USB drive for storage, and you’ve got file sharing and media streaming on your home LAN and over … Read more