powerfrau

Watch some of these clips....

http://www.ted.com/

I saw a deaf woman play the music. I heard brilliant scientists talk about the brain and everything else in the known universe...

It is amazing

Take about five or six boiling potatoes--three if they are as big as your fist. Chop into bite size squares. Boil 15 minutes. Save water for kale. Take ten medium size deveined kale leaves and cook them in the potato water. Drain. Sautee three garlic cloves in olive oil in skillet and two shallots, add cooked potatoes. Add 1 cup chopped walnuts, sautee til toasted. Throw in cooked kale and then add about 4 oz herbed goat cheese. Serve with hearty bread and green salad. Mmmm.
(serves two) We did this with our neighbor. She wasn't sure what to cook for dinner--neither were we. That is the result. Mmm that was delicious. Salt and pepper to taste.


We make a lot of dishes using the process:
"Hey what do you have?"
"I got this here thingy"
"...and you?"
"I got this thingy..."
"What if we..."
"That sounds great."

And it usually is....

Majel Barret died 18 December 2008

1. Barack Obama -- yay!
2. San Franciscans, in general, do not tend toward patriotism.
3. We have roving mariachi bands in the Mission.

Tuesday evening was wonderful. There were people dancing in the streets here. 19th Street completely blocked by people dancing, singing songs with Obama's name in it. A member of a Mariachi Band, playing a tuba jumped on top of a car and starting playing the Star Spangled banner. And the people in the streets, the San Franciscans spontaneously burst into song: the Star Spangled Banner. (Please see note #2 for SF denizens general reaction to patriotism)
A street full of San Franciscans burst into a multi-cultural display of patriotism...

Then we woke up to find we had a case of collective numbness and shock. We didn't know whether to be happy or sad, so we were confused. We were so sure it would fail. So, Prop 8 boo.
There were lots of reasons for Prop 8 passing.
There was polling place deception in California.
(People left yes-prop 8 materials in polling places, and mis (dis?)information about the wording--and how to actually vote!)
The prop was oddly written, and some people did not understand it.
The yes-prop 8 commercials were outright lies. (and quite frankly misinformation)
I contacted two radio stations in protest to the airing of the commercials.
And the Mormon church with some messed up values, would like to control marriage. Scary at best.
Sigh. We have come a long way, but we have got a ways to go.

I have been trying to go to bed early. As you see this has not happened. I tried for earlier...and got caught someplace else--so much for a quiet evening at home.

I have had a lot of insomnia lately for no discernible reasons. It could be whatever it is in the new bed that makes my eyes puffy when I wake up in the morning...sand in my eyes again and again...could be my partner snores...could be the idiots outside my apartment driving speakers around that vibrate everything in sight...could be the homeless guy banging on trash cans or the beeping of the damn garbage trucks...or the very loud Bauer commuter bus--which also rattles my windows.

I am going to have a hot bath and pray that one night this week that I can (at a decent hour) actually get into bed and fall asleep and __stay__ asleep until 7am...I wnat a universal remote for people's car horns and their car stereos...

I met the people who organized this....

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/12132/edition_id/233/format/html/displaystory.html

I think I will be joining them for this other event as well, yeashore.com

This reminded me of TC and his happy pants dance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

An interesting article on kids and food for those of you with kids or food..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/health/healthspecial2/15eat.html?no_interstitial

What I made this year....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jay_que/2809782040/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/81414704@N00/pool/