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Roast beast, roast roots, and a baked pilaf
We recently made this dish for dinner and I couldn’t find a recipe for exactly what I was looking for anywhere, so I’m posting what we made here in order to help anyone else who is wondering how to...
View ArticleTrying something a little different: Out of Context Episode 00
So! It has been a while since I last wrote anything here. Not for any one particular reason. But I’d like to be doing more writing, and as I figure out what that looks like (here or otherwise), I’m...
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2016 in Review
This has been a hell of a year. On a personal level, a lot went right for me. I went to Italy, London and Amsterdam for my honeymoon. I started a new job teaching at Dev Bootcamp, which I love. I...
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Books Read in October
These “books read” posts may be on the light side for a while. I’m in the middle of rereading the Wheel of Time series and I’ve decided to do a review of the entire series once I’ve finished rather...
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Books Read in September
The Letter Killers Club – Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky‘s 1920’s exploration of the paradox of ideas and stories living as “pure conceptions”, entities in their own right, and their perversion when they are...
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2015 in Review
2015! What a year. In May my long time girlfriend and roommate Deana and I got married. It was… It was amazing. So many of our friends and family were able to join us to celebrate and we were just...
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Books read in November and December
Injection Volume 1 (11/8) – The first trade paperback for Warren Ellis’ new series. It’s grim and weird and I’m excited to see where he takes it. The art is really good for the most part, though there...
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Algorithms Without Empathy
I’m depressed. I know this because there are days where it take all my energy just to get out of the house. I know this by the way everything can feel so distant, like it’s happening to someone else....
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Books Read in September and October
The Peripheral (9/8) – William Gibson’s latest sci-fi novel was a total blast. Like many Gibson novels it includes mind bending new ideas and well-crafted characters. I had trouble putting it down....
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Books Read in August
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics (8) – This slim book is a must for anyone regularly involved in the creation of charts and graphs. The text is clear and direct, with many pages of...
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Books read in July
Freakangels (1) – I recently remembered that Warren Ellis’ Freakangels comic was available online in its entirety for free. So of course I went ahead and devoured it immediately. It was a great comics...
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Books read in May and June
The Wisdom of Insecurity (5/6) – This was a surprisingly difficult read for so slim of a book. Very powerful though. I found the discourse on the difference between faith and belief very helpful in...
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Books read in April
Difficult Conversations (1st) – A quick read full of the kind of good advice that will be difficult to put into practice. Like Getting Things Done, it feels like the way to get the most out of this...
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Books read in March
I’m trying out something new. I’m going to try recording the books I’ve read each month. I’m hoping it will help read more. These are the books I read in March (and the date I finished them): How...
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Illuminati Illuminated
This year for New Year’s Eve we went to an “Illuminati” themed party. I wanted to keep things simple and decide I would just wear my black suit and where some sort of “spooky” pocket square. While...
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Ginger Lemon Brandy
On new years day my brothers and I made ginger champagne, as we have in years past. In 2013 I had the bright idea (inspired by this recipe) to use the “waste” from the brewing, i.e. the ginger peel and...
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The First Cryptopals Learn-A-Long of 2015
Are you interested in cryptography or Internet security? Matt Baker and I are leading another learn-a-long workshop where we all work through Matasano’s cryptopals challenges together. If you watched...
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Ginger champagne 2015
Another year has passed and with the previous night’s exuberance still ringing in our heads, the brothers Shanan got together to brew our annual ginger champagne. The 2014 batch turned out pretty well...
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2014 in review
2014 wasn’t the banner year I was quite hoping for but it wasn’t 2013 so at least it had that going for it. There were some very moderate successes that I’m really pleased with as well as some goals I...
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The Novel of a Generation
November is National Novel Generation Month, or #NaNoGenMo if you’re the type that prefers hashtags. Like it’s counter part in October (#NaNoWriMo) it is an opportunity to invest in writing, except...
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