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Just posted to Flickr: Photos from my conference trip.http://www.flickr.com/photos/52161530@N07/sets/72157624531385152/

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First off, labneh. Labneh is a yogurt that has been strained. It's supposed to be more like cheese than cream, but preserve the sour-ish flavoring of yogurt. I got Tazah brand, which is stored as balls in oil, very similar to feta. The feta comparison is apt, since it's usually eaten in similar fashion, spread or draped on crackers & bread.I tried labneh over with homemade pitas, olives,

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Someone had asked for more photos of my garden planters, after a piece of them appeared in an earlier post. We've got a small patio off our kitchen: about 10'x10', enclosed by 6' wooden walls, partially covered, tiled ground. I wanted to grow some vegetables this summer. I reasoned that I do a better job of eating salad if the ingredients are already at home. Besides, it was a better use of

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One of my 8-month goals is to consume as much Batman media as possible. Yes, I like Batman (whoever doesn't: you're dead to me). With some ingenuity and the power of the internet to access pirated digital copies of comics, I'm heading down that road. Batman being the awesomest character ever, it wasn't all that hard. Based on some reliable sources (DC Comics Database, the 'List of Batman

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The other week, I picked up a jar of wild cucumber pickles. A Lebanese product, they looked intriguing: they're long, thin, and a pale yellow. It's like someone pickled alien fingers. They're quite delicious, but it's hard to have more than one or two. The pickling juice & spices are quite basic (vinegar, salt, "peper", garlic). Without the dill, the salt & pucker of the pickling doesn't

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First, I want to clarify what I mean by having trying an 'unusual' food every week. This isn't some Fear Factor-like contest of wills, with hooting at the crazy people who would bother to eat (or commidify for that matter) the food in question. My intent is more to explore food that I wouldn't normally have, either by cultural exposure or that it just has never occurred to me. To that end,

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After a long hiatus, it's time to reboot the blog. As the few that may bother to visit this page probably know, my wife recently left for a long research trip to the other side of the planet. So as to keep myself busy, and hopefully to not spend money out of boredom, I decided to create a list of goals for the next eight months. This was inspired by a number of things: a friend's New Year's

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Industrious net-mappers have allowed those of us with only a fuzzy knowledge of both central Seattle and late-80s rap to immerse ourselves in the geography of how the Emerald City Posse rolls in Seatown.Here's the link for the MS Live version.An alternate for those who prefer their corporation huge yet benevolent.-JB

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I walked over to the university to turn in my thesis edits for the grad school during lunch today, so I stopped into the 7-11 over there for some food on the way back. Inside, there was a guy who was a little hurried asking for where the crazy glue was. Once he found it, he asked me if he could cut in front of me at the counter because he had an emergency. When asked, he said that he "promised

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Everybody's blogging about the iPhone (Farhad Manjoo hasn't made it a day without bleating something about it). Here's my contribution:P.S. This series of vids is actually an advertisement for a blender company, BlendTec. The model in this video is $399 retail. Well worth it.

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Today at the geography after-tea beer drinking, a number of us grad students entered into an important debate that I believe must be shared. If there were a pay-per-view cage match between animal species (to raise money for protecting endangered species, of course), who would win out of certain pairings? The Bear vs. Tiger part of the debate left a heavily divided table. As any graduate worth

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Photos from the NACIS 2006 Annual Meeting.http://www.csulb.edu/~jwoods/GIS_links/nacis/2006/index.htmlA fear is this? Check out photos Madison_077 (center rear in blue) and Madison_125 to Madison_135.

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Great photo of the Rhone glacier, source of the same-named river and once largest in Europe.From this article.

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This week I was informed that I was cited in a forthcoming article by a geography professor. Nothing too exciting, it's actually citing a term paper I wrote for a class on the Rockwood neighborhood of Gresham and Portland. The citation below mine is also a source I uncovered.Also the latest map I had published has been modified by a local journal for humorous parody. I promise that my version

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I recently began reading the New York Time online, in hopes that I'd quit paying the ridiculous 75-cent price for out-of-Portland Oregonians (it's mostly working). It's nice, since they email the headlines to you, from which you can click to read at your leisure.Today there was an article on rural poverty, using Oakridge as the setting. I wouldn't call the article all that great (it really

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Still by far the greatest thing I've ever put onto a map yet. To me, it tells me that a balding Aquaman in his later years is too busy dishing gossip with his mer-friends for fight crime, but can multitask enough to get the fish on the job.

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Yep, that's me. Sometimes I wonder why I even have a blog. Never fear, random internet browsers. Once this term is over (three more weeks, the excruciating UO penance for denying semesters), I plan to put more goods on here. This is mainly because I have a rather ambitious hiking regimen planned for this summer, and I need a decent forum to post my record of well, actually doing it. This may

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I'm not the tiger, he never had,I'm not the first hit when you got it bad.I'm not your second, I'm not your third,I'll be your bird.I'm not your Chesnutt,I'm not your Mould,I'm not your DJ on late night radio,I'll be the first one to ask where you were,I'll be your bird.Then when there's no one to care, I could protect like I've always been there,I'll become your bear.I'll sing statistics, & hide

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Belle and Sebastian, "Another Sunny Day" from The Life Pursuit (2005): -Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden -You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon -I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border -It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees

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As a fellow graduate student in Oregon who studies a field that spends much time concerned with environmental issues (out of the loop? I'm a geographer), I feel both envy and sympathy for the continuing saga of Daniel Donato. For those not familiar with this story, they can catch up in this article. I'm sure every grad student has had even a moderate daydream that their research will be

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Sex, Brains & Hands: Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities, by Diane F. HalpernMr. Gradgrind's Literal Answers to Rhetorical QuestionsCreative Mac Tutorials: 3D Effects in Illustrator CSLaw of the Sea Research GuideSmithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (via UO Library)Overclockers Club: Hack/Change Logon Screen Windows XP Guide

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And a sort of pompadour...

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Ladies and fellas, on account of there being no tea Thursday (and thus no aftertea) and there always being a need to unwind and kick back some fine tasting beer, I'm calling for all to come to the KLCC Microbrew Festival on Friday evening. All the proceeds benefit the local NPR station (for the altruistic). The event will include some of the finest craft brewers from the west coast and beyond,

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Well-rehearsed introduction to my blog. Promise to extend content at unspecified future time... enticement to agree?-JB

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