Dave Samojlenko

  • Elsewhere: Super Bowl Bacon Cheese Turtleburgers

    February 17, 2010

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    [via This Is Why You’re Fat]

  • I Met the Walrus

    February 16, 2010

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  • This conversation sounds familiar

    February 16, 2010

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    Dan Wineman: A conversation I have every month or so:

    Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
    Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.

    [via DF]

  • Elsewhere: How to Beat Egg Whites

    February 15, 2010

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    dsamojlenko

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    Improperly beaten egg whites (both under- and over-beaten) aren’t aerated adequately, and as a result, the final product is dense, flat, and a big disappointment, especially if your arms are aching from beating those eggs by hand. But it’s not hard to get it right, especially if you know a few tips.

  • Not what I had in mind

    February 12, 2010

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    dsamojlenko

    So a while back I added a plugin and setup my blog to collect my tweets each week and aggregate them into a weekly post like the ones below. My thought then was that since I publish quite a bit at Twitter and not so much here, these weekly posts would keep this blog a bit more active in the long spaces between my postings here.

    Unfortunately, it’s turned out that I’ve ended up with weeks and weeks and weeks of aggregate posts of tweets that crowd out what little actual content I publish here, and it’s just gotten out of hand – I no longer believe it’s useful to collect those here, since if you wanted to read my tweets, you’d follow me over on Twitter.  Plus I just find the posts are uglying up the place.

    This blog is in a weird space for me right now. I love having it, and I do publish here a lot more when I have stuff going on like Bluesfest, Burning Man, or the Toronto Film Festival. The rest of the time, I’m still active online, just not here – I tend to push lots of links and short-form stuff to Twitter, my Tumblr log has been seeing lots of action recently, and I have lots of stuff going to my Google Reader list, not to mention places like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and now of course there’s Google Buzz that all fill different spaces in my online life.

    Ideally I’d like to find a way of pulling all of that stuff together to represent my online identity in some cohesive way, and I think that’s what I was attempting with the aggregate posts, but that obviously hasn’t worked.

    So I’m discontinuing the weekly aggregate posts here, and though I can’t really promise that I’ll write more to fill in the gaps (we know how that usually works out), I am going to try to find a better way to integrate my other online activity here. In the meantime, here are some links to the places where I am active to varying degrees online:

    My Google Profile
    My Google Reader Shared Items
    My Facebook Profile
    My Flickr Photostream
    FineDiners.ca, my foodie blog
    My Twitter Stream
    My Tumblr Log
    My LinkedIn
    My YouTube Channel

  • Elsewhere: How to Wield a Knife

    February 11, 2010

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    A butcher on how to choose, wield and horribly injure oneself with a knife.

    However beautiful the shinogi line of a charcoal-forged Santoku, and no matter how solidly made the vintage steel of a French chef’s knife, I have to admit that after years of collecting the world’s finest knives I have settled on one that has more in common with the knives found in the average American’s kitchen.

  • recently on twitter.com/dsamojlenko

    February 7, 2010

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    • damn… didn't realize there were two eps of Lost last night – I only dl'd and watched the first one! Oh well, I get another dose tonight! #
    • Fake Steve: "The best technology is the kind that’s so good you don’t see it. " #
    • Fake Steve: "The best technology is the kind that’s so good you don’t see it. " http://is.gd/7KZxr #
    • 37s: Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots:http://is.gd/7L00V #
    • aw, @sequindawn you're cool too in reply to sequindawn #
    • Vans and the places where they were: http://is.gd/7L7Yc #
    • Enjoying some Belgian beer and mussels at vineyards #
  • recently on twitter.com/dsamojlenko

    January 31, 2010

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    • It's a Public Enemy kind of day #
    • Happy Apple Tablet Day! #
    • dp on today's big announcment: http://powazek.com/posts/2234 #
    • and gruber's take: http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/the_tablet #
    • gruber: "…the most amazing thing about this run-up … So much written, and Apple has not once said one word publicly about the device." #
    • "Cuddle Class" economy seating from Air New Zealand: http://is.gd/79BXk #
    • RT @CharliesBurgers: Globe and Mail review of the latest Charlie Burger menu. http://tiny.cc/YmAjx #
    • RT @duggylimes: Steve Jobs stayed up all night designing tablet."Come on, just think dammit you're running out of time" http://bit.ly/9nYrTd #
    • haha… steve dissing on netbooks #
    • slow… low quality… pc software #
    • it's a giant iPhone! #
    • not crazy about the name "iPad" … but looks sexy as all get out #
    • apple's in the chip business #
    • 10 hours of battery life – NICE #
    • good luck getting those data plans here in Canada, the wireless wasteland #
    • whoa. $499. #
    • whoa – didn't hear about this until just now – Coachella lineup is out:http://is.gd/7b1A2 #
    • are iPad haters going to come off sounding like these guys in 9 years: http://is.gd/7eUdI (via @rob_sheridan) #
    • bahahahhaha! Unhappy Hipsters: http://is.gd/7iZQ6 (via @duggylimes) #
    • Awwww… poor Spirit: http://is.gd/7jwA3 #
    • FREE SPIRIT! http://is.gd/7jwSE #
    • Braving the cold to go get some Anna Thai to warm me back up #
  • recently on twitter.com/dsamojlenko

    January 24, 2010

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    • ~two weeks w/o heat in my apt & TRANE is still unresponsive. what does it take for them to warranty HVAC that blows 4 compressors in 5 yrs #
    • Enjoying Pearl Jam's latest Backspacer – picked up the record when I was out in Seattle over the holidays – seemed an appropriate souvenir. #
  • recently on twitter.com/dsamojlenko

    January 17, 2010

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    dsamojlenko
    • stuck at home waiting for HVAC repair… making some baked beans! #
    • what a waste of a day… HVAC technician just called and will be coming sometime this evening… glad I took the day off work! #
    • Heat issues still not resolved. But the baked beans are delicious! #
    • whoa – Flash runtime written in pure javascript with SVG: http://is.gd/6cZ3p – works on iPhone too. #
    • still no fix for my heat. sent a strongly worded letter to the property manager last night calling them to task for their f-ups. #
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