Archive for October, 2004

weekend sorta summary

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

i went to bean around the world at 11, hoping for a short bike ride and feeling much less ambitious than earlier in the week. unfortunately, everyone decided to sleep in or something. so much for the fixie ride this week.
on the whole, it was probably a good thing, though, because my [...]

lentils ‘n’ rice

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

this is an easy recipe for when you’ve got something else to work on.
first put two cups of brown rice and 1 cup of dried whole green lentils into 6 cups of water. you can really use any amount of rice and lentils, as long as you do 2:1 water:stuff. bring it up [...]

the zoomquilt

Friday, October 29th, 2004

wow…i love this idea: http://zoomquilt.nikkki.net/. just go look at it. it’s purrrrdy ;)

good place for stargazing

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

last night was the lunar eclipse, and i went out on bikes with some people to find a good place to watch it. we tried a few parks but they were all sorta noisy and bright. in the end, we ended up going to northern burnaby. i think it was called centennial [...]

lentil recipe

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

ok, i’m gonna try to give a simple lentil recipe, with some variations. i hope that it’s clear and doesn’t leave much out. it’s been my experience that recipes typically leave a lot of assumed knowledge out, making it tough for beginners. here goes…

cold morning

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

brrr…frost on the ground this morning. i decided last night that i was gonna ride today, no matter what. i need to get more consistant with riding to work. I was certainly hoping for clear skies, especially with that lunar eclipse happening tonight, but jeeeez…it gets cold when there’s no blanket [...]

eclipse tomorrow :)

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

just a reminder that tomorrow’s the night of the total lunar eclipse. some of us are doing a bike-ride to an appropriate viewing location…perhaps ending up at QE park (near cambie and 35-ish). we’re meeting on Wednesday night between 6:30pm and 7pm at the park near union market (on the adanac bike route, [...]

101km ride: fantastic fun

Monday, October 25th, 2004

well, it was a fantastic ride on sunday. The sun came out part-way through, and there was plenty of great company. On saturday, there were several people who said things ranging from “maybe” to “i’ll come for coffee beforehand” to “i’ll ride part-way”, but on sunday morning we had 6 people who were [...]

high school math

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

I talked to my sister yesterday, and found out she’s dropping out of math class. I cheered! but the situation is perhaps not what you first might think

lentils are awesome

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

Just recently, a friend mentioned that he wasn’t really familiar with lentils and their preparation, so i decided it was time to write down some of the experience i’ve gathered over the years. by no means am i a lentil master or anything, but i feel confident with them now (at least in some [...]