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november 12, 2007
peanuts for me
@ 9:20 pm in books, the daily scott
my newest book, schulz and peanuts, has arrived. i had heard about this book awhile ago, but i was moved to purchase it when i saw the last 20 minutes, or so, of this episode of american masters. the portrait which was painted by that show really seemed to mirror how i feel about myself.
here is what really made me buy the book (and i'm paraphrasing here): when charles schulz was laying in the hospital dying of cancer (the same disease that killed his mother, and what he always feared would kill him) his minister friend said, 'well, you must take comfort in the fact that millions of people are praying for you, charles.' to which shulz responded, 'then why i am still dying?'
pretty profound stuff.
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after watching my mom die from complications due to lung cancer last month, this is timely. i will check out the book and show.
posted by: karl | nov 13, 2007 4:40:04 am
november 11, 2007
you might like george w. bush, but his dad is pretty awesome
@ 7:18 pm in whatever
the dude is 83 and he parachutes into the reopening of his presidential library. no matter what your politics are, that's just plain cool.
it is also interesting to note that he landed near the spot where he will eventually be buried. that takes some serious huevos, if you ask me.
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being a bastard on the iphone
@ 2:35 pm in the daily scott
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well, now we know for sure that the iphone battery runs circles around the blackberry battery!
posted by: bre | nov 11, 2007 7:03:26 pm
fork you: brine! fire! turkey!
@ 2:14 pm in blankbaby tv, web/tech, weblogs
another fork you is available for your viewing pleasure. the good folk at orion were kind enough to send us one of their cookers and produced the best damn turkey i have every had. seriously, if you have an outdoor space you need one of these cookers.
this episode is the first in a 3 part series about thanksgiving, so stay tuned for the second installment on tuesday.
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how long did you cook it in that cooker?
posted by: reed | nov 12, 2007 6:32:32 pm
reed: if i remember properly, it took about 90 mins for the ~12 pound bird...right scott?
can't remember the exact calculation but it was less than 10 mins per pound (8?)
man, i knew this would happen: my mouth just started to water thinking about that turkey...
posted by: angie | nov 12, 2007 9:59:43 pm
november 10, 2007
all dressed up for indyhall movie night
@ 2:11 pm in the daily scott
all gussied up to impress those indies who scoff at my hawaiian shirts. double features are fun!
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blogging heroes: there must have been some kind of mixup
@ 1:35 am in blankbaby zen, blog news, culture, weblogs
anyone who has known me for any length of time can tell you i'm crazy about blogging. i've been blogging for a little over 7 years now, and i am sure that 7 years from now i'll still be blogging (and i bet i'll still be doing it right here at blankbaby).
a few months ago i got an email from michael a. banks. he was doing a book about blogging, and he wanted to talk to me (thanks to my tuaw blogging duties). never the one to turn down talking about two of my favorite subjects (myself and blogging) i gave michael my details. he called me one sunday afternoon, as i recall, and we spoke about blogging for awhile. i also took the chance to ask him about writing for 'old media,' i.e. in print. he gave me some things to think about, and i hoped i had given him something with which he could include in his book.
his book is called blogging heroes, and i am one of 30 interviews with the 'world's top bloggers' that make up the book (my interview is chapter 19) along side such bloggers as steve garfield, robert scoble, gina trapani, and steve rubel (to name only a few). if you want to read my interview wiley said i could post it on my blog, so here is the pdf. i don't really say anything that should come as a shock to anyone. i only have two rules that are keys to success in blogging (or in anything, really):
never say/write anything that you are uncomfortable standing behind.
write about whatever you are passionate about, and success will follow.
nothing earth-shattering there, but i said it with my rapier like wit. plus, i'm a blogging hero so that means i am better than you are (but you knew that already).
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awesome, congrats! we'll have to snag a copy of the book for the indyhall library :-d.
posted by: alex hillman | nov 10, 2007 2:58:48 am
wow, scottycakes is becoming an a list blogger! ;)
very cool!
posted by: thad | nov 10, 2007 7:56:16 am
hey scott,
thanks for the link. i just watched the fork you meatloaf show...! ha! that's good stuff especially the impromptu meatloaf song. loved that. forget the cooking and do a music show instead.
we had a comedian on spices of life and it was the funniest show ever. why do food, health, lifestyle when you can have a comedian crack jokes in the snack food aisle?
but back to the show, i loved the text on the screen. how do you do that?
thanks,
--steve
posted by: steve garfield | nov 10, 2007 8:52:56 am
scott, congrats, man. well deserved. cheering you on from the sidelines.
posted by: frank | nov 10, 2007 10:42:08 am
now you need your own nbc show!
sweet.
posted by: albert | nov 10, 2007 1:23:40 pm
very cool.
scott, have i ever told you you're my hero? ;-)
posted by: c.k. sample, iii | nov 11, 2007 1:43:38 pm
pretty frickin cool dude, congratulations!
posted by: glenn | nov 12, 2007 11:13:19 am
i never doubted you, except that one time when you...
congratulations buddy!
posted by: kirpy | nov 12, 2007 12:03:36 pm
woohoo!
posted by: becky | nov 12, 2007 12:24:11 pm
right on, mr. scotty! the six degrees of rosmemary connors has taken on even more lustre! and thanks for the success tips, too, especially the second - i needed a reminder of that more than you know right now. i'm sure i will see you soon - isn't it time for a parr party?
posted by: rosemary | nov 12, 2007 2:10:50 pm
my interview is available here:
http://internetducttape.com/2007/11/09/internet-duct-tape-featured-in-blogging-heroes/
posted by: engtech | nov 12, 2007 6:00:29 pm
november 09, 2007
mahalo hat
@ 2:41 pm in the daily scott
thanks to c.k. for the fly mahalo hat.
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respek!!
posted by: jason | nov 9, 2007 2:53:11 pm
i'm sorry, did you use the word "fly" to describe that hat? wow!
posted by: kirpy | nov 12, 2007 12:04:55 pm
november 08, 2007
the daily scott lives once more!
@11:50 pm in the daily scott
no one asked for it, but the first fruits of the great blog unification of 2007 is the return of the daily scott.
the daily scott was, at one time, a blog unto itself but i lost interest in doing it. however, i'm once again self-absorbed so that means you get to see a new picture of me once a day here on blankbaby. pretty sweet, huh?
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hey, i think this is a good look for you! way to go!
posted by: roz | nov 9, 2007 7:29:42 am
yet another reason why i shouldn't live by myself
@11:18 pm in blankbaby zen, personal
as you know, i've picked up some new shirts as of late. sadly, the problem with button down shirts is that they need to be ironed before you wear them (just the thought of wearing a wrinkled shirt to work makes my mother's voice ring in my head, 'you're not going out looking like that, are you?' make it stop!), so that's how i found myself almost out of a house and home this evening.
i woke up this morning, almost on time, and hopped in the shower. i then went to my closet to try and decide what to wear. all my shirts were horribly wrinkled, so i picked a blue striped one and fetched the iron. now, i'm an 'adult' but i don't own an ironing board so i drape a towel over my coffee table and iron things on that. this means that i often rest the iron on top of my tv, which is within easy reach of my ironing board/coffee table. after my shirt was ironed to my satisfaction (i.e. i couldn't see any more wrinkles on it, but invariably that means the shirt is about 75% wrinkle free) i put the iron on top of my tv, got dressed, and hurried off to work.
after many hours at work, slaving over a hot computer, i wearily made my way home. as i stumbled into my apartment, and dropped in my favorite chair to get a moment's rest i hear an odd noise. it was ticking, but not the ticking of a clock. have you ever been next to a car that has recently been turned off after driving for a long while? you know that tick you hear, the metal throwing off heat and expanding (or contracting... whichever one it is)? that was the noise i was hearing, but i was pretty sure no one had parked a car in my living room. i scanned the room quickly and that's when i saw it, sitting on my tv so innocently. an iron on the 'cotton setting,' happily heating itself, and using up all the water i put into it this morning to iron the very shirt that i was wearing.
i leapt from my chair, quickly unplugged the iron, and sighed a mighty sigh. the tv, luckily, wasn't even warm after 10 hours of having an iron sitting upright on it.
the lesson here is clear: i should live in a home of some sort, and i should purchase wrinkle free shirts from now on.
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i'm glad you're okay, man. that's a scary story. a couple of ideas: 1) dry cleaners. it costs approx. $1/shirt and they come out cleaner and crisper. no matter how much you iron, you can't make your shirts look like that. plus, if you have white ones, they will be much whiter and brighter than you can get in your own laundry; and 2) sounds like an iron with an automatic shutoff is in your future. and an ironing board. the work. then again, i'd go with #1.
posted by: frank | nov 9, 2007 7:31:23 am
wow you are lucky for that one... i thought most newer irons had automatic shutoff? i agree with the wrinkle free shirts (or having your shirts dry cleaned / pressed) but in the meanwhile, a good habit is to unplug the iron immediately after using it. i mean, don't even think about turning it off, focus on unplugging it. but then again, i'm a chick and my mom taught me that. oddly enough, my ironing board is only a small step up from yours... i have one of those mini ones that you set on a table (i end up putting it on the floor). it's a real pain in my ass. that's why i don't wear cotton, my friend.
posted by: roz | nov 9, 2007 7:34:02 am
wow, glad to hear nothing disastrous came from that. i actually had the opposite happen to me recently. was in a hotel ironing a shirt when i started to realize that, well, it wasn't hot anymore. automatic shutoff ftw! clearly it didn't trust me.
posted by: manton reece | nov 10, 2007 1:10:44 am
dude, get yourself some downey wrinkle reducer. spray it on whatever shirt (and pants) you are going to wear that day and hang them up. go take a shower. when you come back the wrinkles will be gone and you'll smell like fabric softener! i swear by it! its available anywhere they sell febreeze and the like!!
posted by: yatesy | nov 10, 2007 9:32:05 pm
too many blogs
@10:39 am in blankbaby zen
i have just decided (about 5 seconds ago) that i have way too many blogs. it is time, my friends, to unite them all on this one blog (which desperately needs a redesign. any of my designerly friends interested in whipping up a design for me? dinner on me at the philly eating establishment of your choice!
i'll probably be importing content from my other blogs into this (don't worry, fork you will still be its own. blankbaby will just absorb all the other blogs i keep about myself).
what does this mean to you, the blankbaby reader? well, my hope is that i will revive some projects that i haven't been keeping up with (like posting a daily picture of myself).
let's see if it works!
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just how many blogs are you consolidating?
posted by: kurt | nov 8, 2007 11:36:25 am
not a bad idea. but how will you try out new blogging software without a bunch of random blogs to use as guinea pigs?
posted by: thad | nov 8, 2007 8:02:29 pm
november 07, 2007
nothing says dating like a baby in a blanket
@ 5:32 pm in blankbaby zen
now, i'm no online advertising genius, but what the heck does a baby have to do with dating? i suppose the end goal for some people is reproducing, but i can tell you that when i see a baby i don't think, 'hey! i should really check out that online dating thing i hear so much about.'
i am an odd man, though, so that might be the problem.
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really
posted by: emelyxuejun | nov 9, 2007 4:13:33 am
november 05, 2007
happy thanksgiving, baby
@11:27 pm
img_5040.jpg originally uploaded by stellargirl. is it just me, or do i look just a touch crazy in this picture?what's that you say, i look crazy hot? well, thank you very much. must be the new sweater i'm wearing.
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scott, you always look just a touch crazy!
posted by: kurt | nov 6, 2007 7:29:35 am
there is something of a maniacal gleam in your eye there. maybe we should keep you away from the knives next time.
posted by: marisa | nov 6, 2007 10:30:20 am
well, it is a touch creepster, but not so bad...
posted by: bre | nov 6, 2007 11:05:14 pm
eeeek!
posted by: eric | nov 7, 2007 10:35:38 am
there's a little jack nicholson in the shining in you here.
posted by: julie | nov 7, 2007 4:26:03 pm
november 02, 2007
the benefits of the food blogger meetup
@11:08 pm
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november 01, 2007
new fall shirts for scott
@11:51 pm in culture, geek chic
people love it when i blog about my new clothes, right? of course you do! i've lost lots of weight, as i continually remind people, so this winter i have significantly less fat than i did last winter. in practical terms this means that almost all my long sleeve shirts are way too big, so i need to get new ones because without that fat the winter is cold!
above are the 5 new shirts i purchased from j.c. penney (online, of course). i was going to be fancy and get some shirts from macys but i got all 5 of these shirts for less than one shirt would have cost me (though, that one shirt would have been very fancy) and that's just sound fiscal planning folks (mcnulty for president!).
anyway, the nice thing about these shirts is that they are all xxl, which i know seems big but last winter i was wear 4xl shirts so by that math next winter i'll be a plain old l.
here's to less of me!
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my god, none of them are hawaiian!
posted by: jacqui | nov 2, 2007 9:08:41 am
i recognized the shirt on the bottom right from friday night. so sexy.
posted by: e | nov 4, 2007 12:51:23 pm
october 31, 2007
no fork you today, but check out the latest slashfood in the kitchen
@12:13 am in blankbaby tv, blankbaby zen
today's fork you has been delayed because i didn't feel like editing it last night, and i am working late tonight, however, that doesn't mean you can't get a hit of scott and marisa today. check out our latest episode of slashfood in the kitchen. we pick some apples and then make apple sauce and an apple crisp.
oh, and as a special treat for blankbaby readers here is the episode in glorious quicktime (it looks much better than it does on the aol player).
and can i just say that slashfood commenters are much nicer than tuaw commenters (though neither can hold a candle to you, dear blankbaby readers).
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is that my episode? inquiring minds (and my mom) want to know!
posted by: jessie | oct 31, 2007 11:20:33 am
october 30, 2007
how i feel right about now
@ 9:37 pm
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oh lord, what is that from? please don't tell me it's a new variation on the mountain hawk.
posted by: todd | oct 31, 2007 9:04:49 am
you feel like a temple owl?
i hear they are delicious ;)
posted by: yatesy | oct 31, 2007 3:16:31 pm
i can see how, after a particularly long day, one would feel rather peck-ish!
(yes. i'm the punniest person in life. )
posted by: bre | oct 31, 2007 10:17:31 pm
october 29, 2007
thanksgiving in october
@ 1:10 am in blankbaby tv
another day, another fork you filming. marisa, myself, and our intrepid crew gathered today in a small house located somewhere in south philly to film not one, but three episodes of fork you. that's right, we had thanksgiving in october to prepare for 3 weeks of thanksgiving madness over at fork you (and we'll be filming one more episode this week dealing with leftovers to round out the month of november).
thad manned my camera and took a bunch of pictures which are viewable in this set at flickr. we have so much fun filming fork you, it is no wonder we keep doing it despite the fact that it takes lots of time, and a good bit of money, to put together.
we made a ton of food, and so the call went out over twitter for hungry people. roz, bart, bart's sister, ruth, and annie heeded the call. lots of food, and lots of laughs later, the fork you filming was done.
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and here i thought my family took thanksgiving seriously! four week's worth takes the cake!
posted by: bre | oct 29, 2007 11:09:16 pm
man, that dessert (name omitted to keep the surprise element) was sooo good! i would have had a 4th serving if i hadn't been so stuffed!
posted by: angie | oct 30, 2007 7:52:55 am
october 28, 2007
mormon flip flopper!
@10:31 am in culture
i'm not really political, but this quote that the clinton campaign gave cnn is pretty darned funny:
reached by telephone phone later in the day, clinton campaign spokesman, mo elleithee said: 'given governor romney's long history of flip floppping on issues, we're not worried. we expect him to endorse us any day.'
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october 27, 2007
happiness in a bun
@ 5:46 pm
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october 24, 2007
i'm a food blogger?
@ 1:35 am in food and drink
somehow, without knowing it, i became something of a food blogger. i became aware of this when i was included on an email about the upcoming philadelphia food blogger meetup and potluck. who knew?
i'll be going, because i like free food and i like bloggers. the only problem is, what the hell should i bring? i don't know nothing about food and these folks are going to want to be impressed with whatever i bring. the pressure, as they say, is on.
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prepared foods from whole foods
posted by: julie | oct 24, 2007 7:18:36 pm
cheeses and a baguette from dibrunos! (or trader joe's whichever has your choice of cheese)
posted by: angie | oct 24, 2007 8:10:17 pm
good wine never hurts... plus it will go with your dionysus head-wreath.
posted by: bre | oct 24, 2007 11:00:11 pm
i'm not really sure why you seem surprised, on this page there are 6 episodes of fork you and 6 food/drink and/or restaurant related pictures(7 if you include the fortune cookie fortune on your forhead.)
posted by: glenn | oct 25, 2007 7:01:25 pm
hummus from dmitri's? yum. and there's that one in fitler's square to hit on your way home from work...
posted by: annie | oct 25, 2007 9:29:50 pm
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