someone sent me a link to this: http://faustfatale.livejournal.com/174478.html
Instead of commenting on Sugar Rashad, I give you The Omnivore's Hundred. I meant to do this foodie meme back when PZB posted it and was just reminded again by the Haphazard Gourmet Girls. Here's the deal:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (Note: I was traumatized as a child by living near where the hot-dog carts went at night. …the..horror…)
16. Epoisses (I’ll never be a stinky cheese girl)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I might try the cognac but don’t smoke)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (Just no.)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (Men's)!
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Because I don’t drink and while I might taste some of the above mentioned alcoholic beverages out of curiosity, I can’t say I’d really actually consume them, here are 8 more unusual items that I have actually consumed.
101. kangaroo (sorry Skippy!)
102. dried cuttlefish
103. prahok
104. squaw candy
105. bacon chocolate bar
106. dragonfruit
107. Calpis (The Taste of First Love!)
108. mystery meat taco from a street vendor in Mexico City
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
stumbleupon.com
This seems to work kind of like Tivo suggestions. Some cool stuff found so far is bookmooch.com and a site with free audio book downloads.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
future shocks
Dreamed last night that (a la Groundhog Day), I was "sentenced" to live each day in some alternative future. Examples: water became crystallized all over the earth, so there were whole factories devoted to re-liquifying it to drink. Though some people had evolved to not need water. You could interview famous people "virtually," to the point that no one knew anymore whether the person they were talking to was alive or dead/image.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Collections and organizing them
I was thinking about blogs/thoughts as collections, and how they are kind of similar to museums... in that there really isn't a comprehensive way to go about looking at them all. But then maybe I'm the only one who gets lost in museums... there is rarely a left-to-right, now you're done characteristic to museums, so you can never see it all.
Of course, sitting here thinking about exhibits changing behind you, I guess book collections are the same way, adding and weeding parts of the collection all the time.
I think the reason I was thinking that there will have to be a way to just reach out and touch (with a thought) the desired knowledge, is that there's no way, and really no reason, to collect every single blog/thought together in one place. Maybe once we break that barrier, the great Alexandrian library will just be in the "plane" with us. Need to build a sundial? here are the plans. Need to know why he wants to build a sundial? here ya go. All of our current systems of categorization are so cumbersome, try so hard to control the information, when it's obviously growing beyond any control. The google idea of searching has to be pretty close to the next level, to reaching out to grab a piece of knowledge. Just a matter of using the software with more interfaces than keyboards and eyes (voice recognition, brain/thought waves).
Of course, sitting here thinking about exhibits changing behind you, I guess book collections are the same way, adding and weeding parts of the collection all the time.
I think the reason I was thinking that there will have to be a way to just reach out and touch (with a thought) the desired knowledge, is that there's no way, and really no reason, to collect every single blog/thought together in one place. Maybe once we break that barrier, the great Alexandrian library will just be in the "plane" with us. Need to build a sundial? here are the plans. Need to know why he wants to build a sundial? here ya go. All of our current systems of categorization are so cumbersome, try so hard to control the information, when it's obviously growing beyond any control. The google idea of searching has to be pretty close to the next level, to reaching out to grab a piece of knowledge. Just a matter of using the software with more interfaces than keyboards and eyes (voice recognition, brain/thought waves).
OK, so last night I took this bromide sniffer capsule for my cough, and had a total manic episode. Good thing I'm not a talker. Among the many many things in my head, all of which seemed terribly profound at the time:
talk radio programs and blogs as thoughts-- a step toward having the noise of our thoughts manifested all around us. Even "tags" will become cumbersome to organize thoughts. I kept thinking about chatter, and streams of thoughts, and that eventually we'll rub through that hole in the brain to where all the unused bits are, and be able to just reach out and grab the bit of info we need at the time. Maybe society is getting "louder" in terms of information production, in anticipation of reaching that tipping point.
Which led me to think about "knowing" vs. "learning." That is, all those random bits of useless knowledge that we keep with us, vs. the process of getting a degree or license requiring some specialized learning. Knowledge seems to be more about referencing, whereas learning seems to be more about skills that we have to keep sharp.
Also I was thinking about weird physical feelings. Sometimes before you go to sleep your legs feel a million miles away, but still attached to you. Kind of akin to dreams in which you fly. Wonder if either of these sensations is related to manic-type episodes?
talk radio programs and blogs as thoughts-- a step toward having the noise of our thoughts manifested all around us. Even "tags" will become cumbersome to organize thoughts. I kept thinking about chatter, and streams of thoughts, and that eventually we'll rub through that hole in the brain to where all the unused bits are, and be able to just reach out and grab the bit of info we need at the time. Maybe society is getting "louder" in terms of information production, in anticipation of reaching that tipping point.
Which led me to think about "knowing" vs. "learning." That is, all those random bits of useless knowledge that we keep with us, vs. the process of getting a degree or license requiring some specialized learning. Knowledge seems to be more about referencing, whereas learning seems to be more about skills that we have to keep sharp.
Also I was thinking about weird physical feelings. Sometimes before you go to sleep your legs feel a million miles away, but still attached to you. Kind of akin to dreams in which you fly. Wonder if either of these sensations is related to manic-type episodes?
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Famous people blogging
Whenever I see something in the news about people posting stuff "in public," or even keeping a diary, I think *what* were they thinking? And it seems like most of us (even the slackers) have plenty to do without throwing more words out there. Yet the need to be heard (or maybe to talk to ourselves without *actually* being heard) is clearly strong. Why aren't we writing thank-you notes or books or other genres that might make us mom-points or money?
I dunno. Sounds like fun though, especially after being home sick for 5 days. I'm a little hoarse from talking to just the dogs (and of course myself), and I think I've gone as far as I can go (level 16) on Pac the Man. I'm midway through WHAT ARE OLD PEOPLE FOR and the July issue of DWELL.
I dunno. Sounds like fun though, especially after being home sick for 5 days. I'm a little hoarse from talking to just the dogs (and of course myself), and I think I've gone as far as I can go (level 16) on Pac the Man. I'm midway through WHAT ARE OLD PEOPLE FOR and the July issue of DWELL.
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