Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, good news, events, travel, pictures, meta, news, friends , add a commentWordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):
Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, (more…)
Monkey Monday: coming up for air edition 2 June 2008 7:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : travel, family, monkeys, meta, friends, restaurants , 1 comment so farHelloooo readers! Sorry about dropping off the face of the intertubes last week; my parents were visiting from out of town until Tuesday, and I ran out of almost-finished entries to post well before that, and then on Thursday I went to a wedding in Texas, from which I am still recuperating. So. Much. Tracy. Kryptonite. I did, however, quite enjoy the Catfish Plantation of “picture-perfect” Waxahachie, Texas — you’d better believe I’m going to hunt down the relevant King of the Hill episode, oh yes indeedy.
In other news, I’ve finally sucked it up and created a Facebook account with which to get/keep in touch with people, especially East Coast and in particular New York City types since, y’know, we’re headed out there in, oh, ABOUT EIGHT FREAKING WEEKS (but no stress or anything, really, it’s just I hear there’s a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, too). So. Facebook. I’m guessing I won’t be too hard to find there, and if nothing else it’ll be yet another way for me to notify folks about new TracyFood posts. (more…)
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden, travel, fangirl, events, pictures, baking, eating, books, Marion Nestle, school, cooking , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
Monkey Monday: live from the east coast edition 12 May 2008 10:35 pm
Posted by Tracy in : travel, nepal, pictures, dessert, friends, books, cooking , add a commentGreetings from the Garden State, y’all! Um, I mean, youse. So far the trip has a daily average of meeting up with at least one awesome person I haven’t seen in over a year, and that trend is looking to continue well into the week, to which I say, “Right on!” Highlights so far are as follows (and wouldn’t you know, they’re all food-related):
On Saturday I got to experience The Bent Spoon of Princeton, NJ. I had crème fraiche gelato and rhubarb sorbet, and they were both fabulous. The gelato was like vanilla on steroids, only with a nice fresh tinge of tartness, and the sorbet was amazingly smooth and creamy, like I could easily have been fooled into believing it was sherbet, with cream added. YUM. (more…)
Off to the East! 9 May 2008 10:26 am
Posted by Tracy in : travel, school, friends , 1 comment so farThe taxi to the airport should be here in half an hour, so of course I’ve got a lot of last-minute running around to do, but where better to freak out than the Internet? I’ll be in Jersey tonight through Tuesday morning, then in NYC until Saturday freaky early. Next week’s posts will, of course, be all kinds of travel-sporadic, and I’ll be back to my usual schedule of missing Thursdays on Monday 19 May.
