Month: March 2017

Checkin Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill

Checked into Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Dinner with the gang.

Main dining room at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Main dining room at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
The bar at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
The bar at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Braised Short Rib with smashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables, and a red wine demi glace.
Braised Short Rib with smashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables, and a red wine demi glace.
Cakebread Crab Cakes: Lump and blue crab, red pepper aioli, granny smith apple salad, Champagne vinaigrette.
Cakebread Crab Cakes: Lump and blue crab, red pepper aioli, granny smith apple salad, Champagne vinaigrette.
Old Fashioned with Jameson black and rose water at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Old Fashioned with Jameson black and rose water at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Custom cocktails at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
Custom cocktails at Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill
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🎧 This Week in the Indieweb Audio Edition • March 18th – 24th, 2017

Listened to This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • March 18th - 24th, 2017 by Marty McGuire from martymcgui.re
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb

Thinking about how nice it would be to have stronger text-to-speech transcriptions for podcasts. I was mentioned briefly in this podcast for having bookmarked an article earlier in the week. Webmentions for audio don’t (can’t?) exist, but a transcription would have included my name (and in this case even my URL) which potentially could have sent me a webmention of the fact.

Why You Should Never Accept The First Hotel Room You’re Offered | Huffington Post

Read Why You Should Never Accept The First Hotel Room You're Offered by Suzy Strutner (Huffington Post)
Be courteous, but firm.
Continue reading Why You Should Never Accept The First Hotel Room You’re Offered | Huffington Post

What killed the romcom? It was Love, Actually

Read What killed the romcom? It was Love, Actually by Hadley Freeman (The Guardian)
Richard Curtis’s sexist, saccharine turkey is being recooked at a time when TV romance is far superior. May it teach filmmakers to aim higher.
‘The script is bad in Love, Actually. So bad. Not one person behaves like a recognisable human being.’ Photograph: Universal Studios

Continue reading What killed the romcom? It was Love, Actually

Leftover Rice Could Make You Very Sick | Lifehacker Skillet

Read Leftover Rice Could Make You Very Sick by Claire Lower (Lifehacker | Skillet)
On a scale from “1” to “listeria” the amount of stomach trouble I would expect a bowl of rice to give me falls around a “2,” but apparently the seemingly innocuous grain can inflict a lot of pain if it’s not stored properly.
Continue reading Leftover Rice Could Make You Very Sick | Lifehacker Skillet

🔖 SoundCloud Downloader

Bookmarked SoundCloud Downloader (http://scdownloader.net/)
SoundCloud Downloader is a simple online tool for downloading any music tracks from SoundCloud. It's free and very easy to use and you get high quality mp3 for any track. Just paste the track page link in URL field above and hit the download button. It extracts the track uri(hosted on SoundCloud's server) from which you can directly download or save the mp3 track in one click. Make sure you paste only one url at a time, in the above input box.
This fits into the same category of scraper as Ryan Barrett‘s tool that extracts audio from video for bookmarking and listening to via Huffduffer.

👓 Indie checkin flow | Ryan Barrett

Read Indie checkin flow by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)
Update: I’ve automated this. Here’s my 2015 IndieWeb launch commitment: I’d like to be able to post indie checkins easily, both here and on Facebook. I’d like to use Faceboo…

👓 Feeling underpowered | Jeremy Cherfas

Read Feeling underpowered by Jeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas)

Where to begin?

This is by way of a whinge, and the solution is at least straightforward. Learn how to do what you want to be able to do, dummy.

For a good long while, I've been feeling seriously underpowered when it comes to being able to do what I want to do online. I can't really date the start of it, I just know that I am no longer able to scratch my itches as once I was. That irks me. I know there are professionals and, even more valuably, amateurs who will scratch itches very similar to mine. But they're not my itches, and I'm not scratching them.

👓 But there were people starving in China … | EatThisPodcast

Read But there were people starving in China … by Jeremy Cherfas (Eat This Podcast)
… and the Romans did knead Bread Matters magazine recently linked to an interview with Jim Lahey, “inventor” of no-knead bread. I eventually tracked it down1 and gave it a listen, and on the whole it is very interesting. Two things, however, irked me. One, relatively trivial, is an idiot comme...

👓 Why Microformats? Owning My Reviews | Aaron Parecki

Read Why Microformats? Owning My Reviews by Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)
Back in October, I wrote a bunch of short mini-reviews on products and services that I use regularly. I published them all on a single page called "Favorite Things". In the past, I've written a couple of reviews on Amazon and then copied them to my website as a blog post. I decided it was time to be...

👓 Guest Post: In Praise of Globes | MathBabe

Read Guest Post: In Praise of Globes by Ernie Davis (mathbabe)
The decision by the Boston school system to replace maps of the world using the Mercator projection with maps using the Gall-Peters projection has garnered a lot of favorable press from outlets such as NPR, The Guardian, Newsweek, and many others.