- General Stuff
- Florida’s Tim Tebow routinely rejects all kinds of sex requests.
- We had dinner at The Bazaar on Saturday night. It was tragically expensive — and I’m not really a “foodie” — but I can appreciate art. The LA Times review is spot-on.
- I love these vintage sexist ads.
- Yes, you must pick one.
- Why should underdogs take more chances?
- Cameron’s dad’s house is for sale!
- If I’m going to own 70% of GM, why have my last five cars been Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Toyota, Toyota? Oh, right. Because they don’t suck.
- Here’s how to seduce a friend who has a boyfriend and otherwise wouldn’t sleep with you. (via Kottke)
- I love that canyoucopyrightatweet.com is copyrighted.
- Techie Stuff
- There is an excellent 30-minute screencast on using WordPress as a CMS at css-tricks.com.
- SimplePie makes displaying RSS in WordPress a breeze.
- Good systems send email as HTML and plain text.
- Hashed passwords are good, but randomly salted hashed ones are better.
- Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
- Here’s how to configure a killer WordPress testing environment locally.
Posts tagged “food”
#FridayFive: My Favorite Nuts
View the Friday Five from July 10th, 2009
Cynthia’s Restaurant 3
A quick restaurant review
The Velocity Diet: I Like Chocolate Edition
I completed Phase I of the Velocity Diet with my fifth shake on Sunday night. (I’ll write my review of Week Four soon.) I guess the guys at T-Nation are pretty good with their calculations, because I had barely enough Metabolic Drive shake mix to last me exactly through Phase I. By Monday morning I
#FridayFive: Velocity Diet
View the Friday Five from April 17th, 2009
The Velocity Diet – Week Two
Another update on my crazy diet
The Velocity Diet – Week One
In which I attempt an insane diet
The Velocity Diet
Notes on a popular weight-loss program
Post-Workout Power Shake
And now, for your fitness fix, here is the recipe for the mega-awesome shake I had after the gym tonight: 4 ice cubes 1 cup 2% milk 2 cups water 1 banana 1 4oz Häagen-Dazs Coffee Ice Cream 1 raw egg 2 scoops Cytosport Chocolate Muscle Milk Throw everything into a blender. Hit the ice-crusher
E. Baldi
Just around the corner from Spago in Beverly Hills is a terrific little establishment named E. Baldi. (It’s the sister restaurant of just about the best place to eat in Los Angeles, Giorgio Baldi.) I had the amazing garganelle with meat sauce tonight, and didn’t realize until I was walking out the door that I