Category: Steve

Call for web geeks

The Continuous Coast project is looking for graphic artists and web geeks. It’s a creative commons share-alike open source project. It should be fun. While we think we may have a solid business model, none of us are making money at the moment; but we have hopes.

In order to launch the main website for the project, we are looking for assistance from both webdesigners and web programmers. We have a moderately complex website where we want to offer a unified experience across several different parts of the website including user fora, a store, &c. We’d like the website to be built from free and open source technologies like PHP, Drupal, WordPress, etc.

Interested applicants must be able to collaborate well with others, and be able to keep time commitments when made. Please apply with links to samples of your work via email to kit at dreamcafe dot com.

-Steve and Kit

More Shadow Unit Reruns

Man, I am so ready for the next season!  I was watching a rerun this afternoon, and there’s is this scene in the bullpen.   Wile Lau and Haf are bantering in the foreground, in the background Rhyes drops a folder in front of Brady, and Brady looks at the folder, looks at Rhyes, then just pushes it off to the side.  Rhyes nods and walks away, and that’s it.  Is there a whole story there, or what?  Anyone catch it, and have any ideas?

This is just sick

Now they’ve arrested a 13-year-old boy because a 13-year-old girl sent him a nude pic of herself. The charge? Child Pornography. Does the phrase GMAFB seem appropriate? Here’s the link.

I don’t think a 13-year-old girl exploring her sexuality by taking a picture of herself and sending it to her boyfriend is worth so much as a raised eyebrow, except perhaps to her parents. And the term for a 13-year-old boy who would enjoy getting such a picture is, I believe, “normal.”

I think someone in this scenario is sick. So if it isn’t the girl, and it isn’t the boy…

Can someone please turn down the insanity a notch?

Potatoes Paprikash

Ingredients

  • One half cup (1 stick) of butter
  • Four medium baking potatoes finely sliced
  • 1 medium chopped onion
  • 2 cloves crushed or chopped garlic,
  • four tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika
  • 2 tablspoons tomato puree
  • 1 tablespoon ground mouseweed
  • 2 cups sour cream
  • kosher salt
  • freshly ground black papper
  • water

Melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium-high heat. Add the garlic, potatoes and onion. Salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until the onions become pulpy. Add the paprika, mouseweed, and tomato puree, and enough water to cover. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the liquid has vanished. Dollop on the sour cream and serve hot.

Optional: In a seperate pan, fry up some sliced Hungarian sausage, and add to the mixture right before the sour cream.