by Matt | Jun 11, 2007 | Culture, Personal
Today we’re going to try something a little different. Today is the first installment of a little How-To series I’m going to call “Cooking for Geeks”. The common misconception about geeks, like myself, is that they’re not “manly men” and certainly not fit to man a grill at your next barbecue. This couldn’t be further from the truth. While I don’t do much “baking” around our house, I’m certainly no stranger to cooking. Actually, it’s one of my favorite hobbies. I’ve become a cooking junkie, even entertaining the idea of entering something like “Food Networks Next Big Star”. Out of all the things I cook, it’s what I grill that I’m most proud of. I’ve memorized cooking time tables for all the grilling basics. Knowing exactly how long to grill something, what temperature to do it at, how many times to flip it, etc, are all skills us geeks can excel at.
The dish I’m most proud of are my baby-back ribs, Texas style, and that’s what we’re going to be cooking today.
Photos, directions and conversation after the jump…
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by Matt | Jun 5, 2007 | Personal
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t posted in a while, I can rest the blame squarely on work. Two weeks ago we were shooting the Texan cheerleaders. Last week, marathon retouching of said photos. This week, more cheerleaders. As I’m typing this, I’m sitting on the 9th floor terrace of a hotel, waiting for the sun to go down so we can try for a sunset shot. Judging by the cloud cover, I’m thinking its not going to happen. That’s ok, we have a backup plan.
Today has been especially crazy, mostly because I’ve been awake since 3am. We had to be ready to shoot at 5:30 and it was a long drive to our “undisclosed location”. I love industry terms, lol.
Anyway, back to work for me. I’ve got 4 or so more hours to go, then a repeat tomorrow.
by Matt | May 22, 2007 | Aggravation, Personal
I wanted to talk a little bit about something that was bothering me on the way home from work tonight. Allow me to be serious for a moment or two and then I promise it’ll be right back to t-shirts and video games.
What was bugging me were the things that a certain Houston area radio DJ was saying. Today the hot-button topic in the news is the immigration package being passed through congress. While my personal opinion on the matter is that if people want to come here, it should be legally, end of story, I’m always open to hearing diverging opinions from other people.
So, since I’ve practically disabled the FM button on my car stereo, I occasionally listen to the news AM station, mostly for the traffic report for my commute home. While I’m waiting to hear about what massive traffic jam I’m headed towards, this moronic talk show host is going on and on about “immigration reform”. He was debating with a caller about what will happen if people are allowed to stay here under that guest worker program. His caller was concerned about criminals and terrorists being here, being allowed to stay and not being monitored. The host said something to the effect of “well, that’s while we’ll just have to monitor their every move.” To which the caller responded, “if they become American citizens, what about their right to privacy?” “Americans don’t have a right to privacy, reread you constitution” says the host.
I had to turn the radio off.
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by Matt | May 22, 2007 | Culture, Personal
I have a vast collection of geek apparel which I enjoy and wear proudly whenever possible. Some of my older t-shirts have seen better days and, quite frankly, I could use the wardrobe update. I’ve been given the ok to get myself stocked up on awesome t-shirts for the impending summer and I’ve decided to scour the internet for unique designs. There are the usual places to find geek-wear, but I’d really like to find the best of the best. So, I’m going to need your help. Here’s what I’m thinking so far…
Ok, so that last one isn’t a t-shirt, but it’s still friggin sweet. I need some more suggestions on cool shirts, or at the very least, so cool sites to find shirts. I know all the obvious ones: thinkgeek, jinx, threadless, splitreason, etc. Any suggestions guys? Nagle, I know you’ve probably got some…
by Matt | May 21, 2007 | Web
If this page disappears for any reason, don’t be alarmed. I’m just transferring the domain away from NetSol. It was about to expire and it was about damn time I did that anyway.
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