Straight from the source…. See you in March!
Balmorhea (Austin TX)
The Baseball Project (Portland OR)
The Bears of Blue River (Chicago IL)
Beats Antique (San Francisco CA)
James Blake (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bliss N Eso (Albert Park AUSTRALIA)
British India (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Murphy Brown (Santa Cruz CA)
Brownout (Austin TX)
Canteca de Macao (Madrid SPAIN)
Just as my 2010 stock was depleted, I received the 2011 shipment (thank you, parents). As far as I know, my house is the only household in Austin with a uninterrupted supply of Noche Buena beer since 2002. Feel free to stop by for a cold one!
This thick and dark paste you see in the image below is one of the most delicious things invented by man: mole. A Mexican sauce that contains chilis, nuts, tomatoes, chocolate, among many other ingredients. It’s not unseen for mole to contain a hundred different ingredients. There are many kinds of it.
On a recent trip to Monterrey we bumped across a small shop where they sold mole made by the grandmother of the owner in the state of Oaxaca. It’s sold as a very thick paste and all one has to do is “prepare it”. This usually means adding chicken broth and a few secret ingredients which are up to personal taste and I won’t divulge here. I bought two kinds: black and red.
I prepared it with Karina’s help last Saturday. We made a lot of it. So I looked for some serious eaters to help consume the mole over chicken, beans and rice. I found the best:
Delicious. I need to make mole more often.
An intern at a website called Facebook (some sort of up and coming social network, whatever that is) took data from millions of friendships and drew a map using that information. He drew the cities where users were from and lines between cities depicting friendships. More details on how he drew this here.
The result: A pretty picture, not unlike the ones you see taken from the ISS at night… except these aren’t lights, they are Facebook users.
It also shows to an extent the level of internet penetration in the world: not many users in Siberia nor the Sahara – or the level of internet censorship – can anyone see China?
High resolution image here.
This one is late, but still an interesting one. Here’s the source.
My parents were in town recently. Faithful to the tradition, my dad brought me a fancy beer. This time it was the new special edition Bohemia Frida Kahlo. That’s right: it’s Bohemia Beer, but the image of the famous Mexican painter is all over it. The beer itself comes in two different flavors and there is a booklet with some history. Check it out:
E.A.S.T. was held on the second and third weekends of November. My attendance this time was not as intensive as previous years due to travel and visits. It was still very enjoyable.
Here are three tips for those of you attending next year:
And a few photos:
Moi (I keep linking to his blog, which has gotten painfully boring) sent me an email telling me about DefaultCase. They are launching a new company and selling their cases for only $0.01 for a limited time. His email revealed some scepticism. Too good to be true?
On the rape accusations against Julian Assange:
To be fair, I don’t know if Assange’s alleged broken condom is because the product was defective. We have good evidence that Assange has the world’s biggest set of nuts, so assuming some degree of proportionality, he’d put a strain on any brand of condom that didn’t have rebar ribs.
He really does have balls.
One of the nicest feelings: When you are at work early in the morning and need to go to the bathroom, and happen to be the first person to use it after it was cleaned the previous evening.
You can tell by the position of the toilet seat: Up for unused and pristine, down for used and compromised.
