house of warwick

~stevenf: “Last week, I was thinking back to the rip-roarin’ 90’s, and the big war of the media player platforms. Who would be king of all digital media? QuickTime? Windows Media? Real? Nope! The winner, with something like 98% browser availability is — wait for it — Flash! Ha ha!”

Something good happened today; something that is different. I’ll talk more on Monday so I’m offline until then.

Boing Boing: “The folks at OSFlash have figured out how to emulate a Commodore 64 computer in Flash, so that old C64 apps can be run within a Flash app. The source for the emulator is licensed under the GPL.”

Doug Guccione and Steve Kirks,
originally uploaded by warwick.

Doug Guccione was my teach for three dinners at the start of 2005, teaching me sauces, presentation and some tradition Italian recipes. It was a blast and the knowledge stuck. I can still walk up to a saucepan and turn out a good white sauce without fear.

Thanks Doug!

infiniteloop,
originally uploaded by warwick.

Do you ever feel like you’re caught in an infinite loop? I’ve had a day where I made “progress” in one direction, climbing out of a hole only to realize that the top of this hole is the bottom of another.

I think listening to the Talking Heads doesn’t help, either.

David Byrne Journal: “Drummer Kenny Wollesen revealed this morning at breakfast that the ‘arc de triomphe’ at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn is hollow, and it houses the New York puppet lending library! The arch is filled with puppets! In fact, a spiral staircase winds up and the walls are filled with them, many life-sized, categorized by type, one of which is insects.”

I make pita bread from time to time and this recipe from Epicurious never fails. The last time I did this, I used our Weber Q200 gas grill and the results were perfect!