Brandt Kurowski

breaking down the turkey to make stock, and finding an absurd amount of meat was left behind

the artichoke dip has been made. now it's time for a REAL turkey sandwich!

just realized that we forgot to make artichoke dip this year. ack! perhaps my sandwich will have to wait while I make this essential spread.

deglazing

rocking the thermapen

brining the turkey

Garamond’s ſt ligature. Ah ha! The “st” ligature has always bothered me, as it seems rather artificial—a forced piece of decorative fancy that is out of place in most serious typographical work. But if it has its origins in the long s, well then it finally makes a little sense to me—enough to justify at least its existence, if not its usage. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

had no idea that using "disappear" as a transitive verb was considered proper English—I've always assumed it was a cheeky use of the word

@tpanzarella congratulations! Elena is adorable.

wow, the new iMac supports resetting the PRAM using the wireless keyboard—that's some pretty impressive bluetooth support

Looks like I’m making a sorta-annual tradition out of photographing my desk, so I’ve started collecting them in one place. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

Here’s the Broadcom BCM2042A4KFBGH chip that allows the Magic Mouse to talk to its host. According to Broadcom, “By integrating all components within today’s mouse and keyboard into the BCM2042, low system costs can be achieved to approach the price points of legacy-wired mice and keyboards.” Apparently Apple missed that memo. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

just heard loud kid's music blast from downstairs—i think the 1 year old figured out how to control the stereo. guess it's time to move it!

hey microsoft, could you buy a little more bandwidth for your online store please, so that it doesn't take me all day to download windows 7?

Mobile Air Mouse is so good, I'm removing the keyboard and mouse from the living room mac mini.

Untitled - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

Patron is an HTTP client library for Ruby that features a usable API and good performance. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

doing http work in ruby for first time in a while, pleased to discover release of http://github.com/toland... so i can avoid net/http

moving cookbooks to the new shelves I built for our kitchen http://yfrog.com/ea3dbj

Intel Pays A.M.D. $1.25 Billion to Settle Patent Dispute - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

BCBS health insurance rates in VT will rise 24% in 2010. not as bad as the 28% jump in 2008, but still… what the fuck?

Support for Same-Sex Marriage by Age and State. I think the data speaks for itself here. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

for what it's worth comcast's internet service may suck but all the comcast employees i've dealt with in brattleboro have been excellent

cable internet connection down all weekend, then it starts working again 5 minutes before the tech shows up to diagnose the problem. sigh.

shortly after the comcast technician left, my cable internet connection is down again

having fun with my new router (woodworking, not networking)

lighting the grill

no Internet at home, feels like the friggin' dark ages

JS-Kit ECHO - http://js-kit.com/