On Saturday, I drove to Washington for my friend Andrew’s talent show birthday extravaganza. The party began with his sister Caroline’s parody card, and Andrew opened the night’s slate of featured performers with an original song he composed for Annie, who is in library school, called “I Want You to Check Me Out”: Highly referential [...]

Remembering Sunday’s concord grape sorbet, the secret flavor of Bent Spoon at the New Amsterdam Market, I realized this morning that it truly is fall with the Concord grapes at the Union Square Greenmarket. Like the grapes’ purplish skin, which slips, the calla lilies swirled around a bowl in autumnal hues, with nearby bouquets ready [...]

Yesterday, after dreams of bacon from Winnie‘s BLT party, I followed the sounds of excited voices to the opening day of the New Amsterdam Market to see local producers and purveyors (and ran into Winnie and Matt, who introduced me to Erika Lesser, the Executive Director of Slow Food USA). Sad to miss the pork [...]

Last night, I tried bacorn for the first time: little bits of bacon with a homemade caramel on the kernels…but I’m getting ahead of myself. Just before I left for Linz a few weeks ago, my wonderful friend Mike of RoadTrip Nation was in town, and since Roadtrip Nation puts college students on the road [...]

In my last post, I included video, slides, and the rough transcript from my presentation last weekend in Linz, Austria for Ars Electronica as part of the Cloud Intelligence Symposium. In curating the symposium, David Sasaki also created “An Outsider’s Guide to Linz.” This post is an extension of his excellent guide with video and [...]