Guacamole, Feedreaders, Chris Thile, and Flickr
Been taking it relatively easy around home, trying to recover from a couple of hectic weeks. It’s nice to just be the two of us for a while!
We had lunch with the excellent Todd at the excellent Dos Caminos in Soho after church on Sunday. I have not been a guacamole fan to date, but this has all changed. Savory, a little salty, nice and creamy but with good-sized chunks of veggies in it, all served with some great fresh tortilla chips in a stone bowl. Vive la guacamole! (Please ignore my preposterous language problems.) I’m still salivating.
In my neverending quest for the coolest feedreader, I stumbled upon Newshutch today. It’s great. I promptly passed it on to Ken, with whom I seem to have an unofficial who-can-find-cool-stuff-first competition going on (mutually beneficial to both us, our families, and our blog audiences). Anyhow, though he’d found it a few weeks ago, I still am all geeked out over it and think it’s great. Elegant and useful.
Because of all the recent activity surrounding my father’s funeral and the subsequent wedding, I neglected to mention that we caught the first official show of Chris Thile and the How to Grow a Band at the Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night, August 29. It was stunning and awesome and I don’t want to spoil it all but you simply must get the album. They are five highly talented musicians who just rock.
Speaking of Ken, he set up a Flickr group for our wedding photos, so if you’ve got some (or you’re just plain curious), go. Because of the two-day postponement of the wedding, we had no professional photographer and the ceremony took place in my mom’s backyard, but many people turned out with cameras and we’ve still got a lot more to sift through.
It’s good to be back. :)
laura wrote:
So have I told you lately that you are sheer wonderfulness? I’ve been wanting a feedreader to use at work, but wasn’t even sure where to start looking for a good one. (Google feedreader is just too slow and annoying.)
I just spent the last hour looking very busy and putting all my favorites in Newshutch. Love. It. Mightily.
Posted on 19-Sep-06 at 9:32 am | Permalink
Sarah wrote:
Can I ask? What is a feedreader? What does one use it for? Why is it useful? Should I have one?
Posted on 19-Sep-06 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
alisa wrote:
A nice update lady. Also, have you tired bloglines? Thats what I currently use and wonder how it compares. Im going right now to listen to Chris’ myspace for music. Im just rather bothered by the title of the ablum. We should email discuss this.
Posted on 19-Sep-06 at 1:39 pm | Permalink
Alissa wrote:
A feedreader checks your RSS feeds - check this out for more info. It’s not complicated - RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” - but it’s hard to explain in a comment. :D
Posted on 19-Sep-06 at 1:42 pm | Permalink
Alissa wrote:
I’ve used bloglines for a year now, but it’s much uglier. It does work well, though.
Posted on 19-Sep-06 at 1:43 pm | Permalink
Tami wrote:
Ok. You’ve done it again. I’m addicted to your design links!! Btw, there is nothing like really good guacamole. We found ours in Cancun and dream of it regularly ; )
Posted on 19-Sep-06 at 7:00 pm | Permalink