April 7 Miscellany
by Caroline• Last night I made vegan cupcakes while Andy talked to me about cooking goat. It was a delightful contrast. I have put a cap on goat-cooking-related conversation though, so now he can’t really talk about it again for at least a few weeks.
• Contrary to popular belief, spring is not here. Sunday, it snowed; yesterday, it dropped below 30; today, the wind peeled the surface off of a billboard near my office. However, I spent a while browsing a friend’s immense collection of vegetable seeds and it made me feel good. Eventually things will grow out of the ground again. I swear.
• Seth Godin encourages proactivity this week by some unconventional entrepreneurship, which folds in nicely with Trendwatching’s April bulletin on so-called “sellsumers.” Recently, Godin is doing a fine job of offering multitudes of ideas not only to sometimes make money, but to keep busy and stay mentally buoyant. For instance:
“Most companies would welcome a post-tax-day accountant who offered (on spec) to review bills or expenses in exchange for half the money saved. If they had time, they’d do it themselves, but of course they don’t.”
• Um, did you know that Georgia Tech’s mascot is a great old Ford coupe and its fight song was partly written by avant garde composer Charles Ives? Me either.
• Dustin Rowles’ update on Iron Man 2 at Pajiba includes a hilarious little diatribe at Terrence Howard for turning down his role from the first movie:
You get to be Colonel James fucking Rhodes in not only Iron Man, but in The Avengers and whatever else Marvel spins off. You do that for a few movies, and you are set. For life. That’s like getting a clerkship on the Supreme Court. Sure, the money is lousy and the hours are long, but you can do anything you want afterwards.
• Many prominent law firms have pushed back the start dates of their fresh hires up to a year or more in response to the recession, but some are getting creative by loaning their newbies to legal aid organizations during that time at lower salaries.
• I did a lot of work on my stylesheet this weekend. Click through and look at the site, it’s a lot cleaner and brighter.
5 responses
Man, in my part of India it was either goat or chicken. Goat is delicious, by the way. Kind of like shaved beef, unless you get a kidney. Those are just like overcooked mushrooms.
Andy has cooked every disgusting thing there is. Previously banned from discussion: Veal liver.
So, it’s both. I don’t know, man, something about eating goat just gives me the heebie jeebies.
I also like the new look. I’m not sure what marty means, but it does look like the top margin of the blockquote might be more than the bottom margin, but it could also be that I’m tired after work (though I’m on FF3 on Vista, if it matters).
Have there been lots of conversations about goat cooking lately, or did it gross you out?
They look okay on my end. What browser and OS are you using?
nice–looks very springy. the top of the blockquotes are a tiny bit off, though.