"Though pop-up food vendors have become the norm around San Francisco, watching The PizzaHacker (aka Jeff Krupman) cook up street-corner pizzas in the wood-fired oven he fashioned from a Weber grill is something else entirely. Standing three feet away while your pizza puffs up in the oven is pretty damn cool. And, of course, there's the ingenuity of that oven in the first place. But after trying Krupman's pizzas and then spending some time talking with him, it is his trajectory as a pieman that left me most intrigued. Krupman is already an accomplished pizzaiolo, but as someone who has literally 'hacked' his way there, it is clear that his evolution is still in process—sometimes even from pie to pie."
- Bluesun 2600
from Bookmarklet
Cool. I will be sure to d/l and listen. I just finished the one where he interviewed Rebekka of Flickr fame. I hope I spelled her name right, I do not feel like looking it up right now.
- Tony Vota
Image Courtesy of the City of Sydney It’s a safe bet that few, if any, of Sydney’s bicycle commuters go with penny farthings as their two-wheeler of choice. The outdated ride (popular in the 1870s) is most used these days for its retro value and the occasional race. But when artist Alasdair Nicol set out [...]
- Shevonne
I hear it's not like a computer and not very open. Don't like the sound of this, I'm after a mobile computer but he needs to act like a PC.
- Kol Tregaskes
In my case, the reluctance is not iPad-specific. I personally don't have a use case for ANY tablet device, whether it's from Apple, Amazon, Arrington, or whoever (including Garmin or Magellan or TomTom).
- John E. Bredehoft
Yeah, and for almost $900 on the high side, it better come with a combo blow-job/hand-job port - STANDARD!
- Morgan
I can't wait to get one, just trying to hold back to be able to give it the kids for their birthday/Christmas. If I have one first it won't be as special
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I have no need for one. I have a netbook and a Blackberry that satisfy my mobile needs. I don't need to spend so much on a half-computer.
- Ian May
I do not have any desire whatsoever to have one.
- just ZONED
Hey Caroline. haven't left. :) But do spend a fair amount of time on buzz these days.
- Thomas Hawk
"Acura has announced the addition of a TSX sport wagon to its 2011 lineup, and it will likely look suspiciously like the Euro-market Accord Touring model that many people have been clamoring for. Acura confirms that the model will be based on the TSX sedan, which is itself basically a Euro Accord."
- Richard Chen
from Bookmarklet
"At the time, psychologists assumed that children’s ability to wait depended on how badly they wanted the marshmallow. But it soon became obvious that every child craved the extra treat. What, then, determined self-control? Mischel’s conclusion, based on hundreds of hours of observation, was that the crucial skill was the “strategic allocation of attention.” Instead of getting obsessed with the marshmallow—the “hot stimulus”—the patient children distracted themselves by covering their eyes, pretending to play hide-and-seek underneath the desk, or singing songs from “Sesame Street.” Their desire wasn’t defeated—it was merely forgotten. “If you’re thinking about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you’re going to eat it,” Mischel says. “The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place.” In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it’s what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings. (When Odysseus had himself tied to...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This is an interesting quote because it implies that "will power" is more about mental strategy, not some kind of mental strength for forcing yourself to do something. I have the same strategy with food -- I eat whatever I see, so in order to not eat something I just need to put it out of sight.
- Paul Buchheit
effectively "out of sight, out of mind"
- alphaxion
This is where the magic of science is: you spend time and resources to prove a proverb.
- .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.
"The child who could wait fifteen minutes had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds."
- J.D. Deutschendorf
Sometimes I worry my metacognition is slowing me down because I'm spending less time just cogniting. (that oughtta be a word.) But no, in all seriousness, I think something, then realize the thought was there before I subvocalized it, and then I go in a circle several times subvocalizing those same thoughts as I examine the process of thinking. Frustrating!
- Andrew C (✓)
Some friends and I refer to this study often, pointing out when we've failed the marshmallow test. Staying up late is my most common mashmallow test failure (sacrificing morning time to enjoy a few more bleary hours NOW), but it's easy to spot this sort of behavior and fun to have a standard vocabulary to highlight its ubiquity.
- Seth
As a parent, I consciously used this strategy to distract my children whenever they got in mischief, behaved badly or acted out. As a grandparent, I often send a box of tricks, things like super balls, an "uno" deck, paints, a book, a yoyo or top, for my daughter to use with my grandchildren when they are driving her crazy and need to think about something other than running around screaming.
- Phil Boiarski
OK, that makes sense, but let's flip this on its head - How do you instead keep your mind on something and prevent yourself from getting distracted? You can't distract yourself from your distractions. Andrew C, the word you're looking for is cogitating.
- Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn, thanks. Though I think 'cogniting' is a touch funnier.
- Andrew C (✓)
Some chimpanzees use this strategy as well, though not all of them.
- Björn Brembs
i think bhudda had some theory on this too...:/
- Paul Moss
Today my 4yo daughter was having trouble waiting for a treat, so I told her (and my wife) about reading this article last night. I talked about the ability to distract - and I thought I was doing a pretty good job of explaining it in 4yo terms. When I was done with my paraphrase/lesson, I asked her if she understood. "Uh-huh," she said. Then after a few moments, she asked if we could stop and get some marshmallows on the way home. All I could do is laugh!
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
I read a different writeup of this experiment a couple years ago, when our daughter was about 1 year old. Its something that can be taught, and encouraged. She's now very good at distracting herself from something which she knows she shouldn't do or would get into trouble over. She's not easily distracted in general: she can focus quite well on something she wants to do (and is allowed to do).
- DGentry
"Since they seem to be taking requests, here’s my next one: launch an API. I can’t wait to see what developers come up with, and I’d love to use those non-Google services in a secure way without giving them my Google Voice credentials."
- Patrick Chanezon
Awesome Jeff. I'm going to show this to my 4 year old. He's mastered identifying about 46-47 of 50 states when he was 2.5 before he could read. He's been working on mastering the capitals. I think he's got 40-42 of them memorized.
- Dh'ennis Dömingö
Sweet, I'll quiz him next time I see him. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
"Saturday morning we were crunched for time but we needed to put a hot breakfast on the table; it was a long day and fruit and toast wouldn't do. We had made homemade pizza the night before, so we saved a couple balls of dough in the fridge and brought it up to room temp in the morning. We shook it out thin, slathered it with ricotta cheese and fresh herbs from the garden. The first pizza had basil and a little leftover tomato sauce, plus some green olives and plenty of Parmesan. We cracked three eggs on top and baked. Delicious! The yolk spilled out golden goodness all over the other toppings."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
The second pizza was simpler; we rubbed the dough with ricotta and a little good olive oil, then chopped basil, thyme, sage, rosemary and parsley and sprinkled it on. We baked this for several minutes, then added the eggs. Two more eggs, with salt and pepper, baked just until golden runny.
- Derrick
This sounds really good and I think I enjoy cooking breakfast/brunch more than just about any other meal.
- Derrick
Same here. I think cause it represents a new day. =D
- Shevonne
Spent some time in London and several of the pizza places there featured pizzas with an egg cracked in the center. I didn't get the appeal then, and I don't now. Blech!
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Jen, don't knock it! I learned from a Korean friend the glorious wonder of a fried egg on a hamburger. Wheeeeeee!
- Derrick
That pizza should include crumbled bacon. Or, at least, bacon salt.
- Otto
Maybe proscuitto? It wouldn't dry out too much under the egg & cheese.
- Andrew C (✓)