Cooking meals start to finish in a rice cooker. Because I am exceptionally lazy, and because they turn out pretty good. Turkey Barley Goulash Casserole Rice Cooker Recipe – Food.com – 187781.
Tag Archives: great-ideas
Ken Burns’ Effect
I find Ken Burns a little grating in interview – his style is very mannered and dramatic – but he’s perfect in this short, wherein the master of the longform biographic movie gets a short film treatment. Ken Burns on Why His Formula for a Great Story Is 1+1=3 – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg – […]
Pixar’s ‘secret’ room
I learned the hard way that there’s no such thing as a Dream Job, and yet I still fantasise about working at Pixar. These guys are just too cool for words. The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities – The Next Web.
One-Dish Meals
As a lazy cook and an even lazier cleaner, these recipes appeal. The fact that the ones I’ve tried so far have been super-tasty is even more incentive. One-Dish Meal Recipes – Food.com.
“The story of a page not found”
A short, fun TED Talk illustrating how even the most mundane aspect of your website can be made valuable and effective. Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found | Video on TED.com.
Crazy Portraits
Jason who is a wedding photographer started taking photos of his two little daughters back in 2006 when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with colds and coughs so he couldn’t always bring them to visit their grandmother. Jason wanted her to be able to see her granddaughters without […]
Added Drama
OMG. This is hilarious. via A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE – YouTube.
Space Madness
I don’t fly. The thought of being cooped up in a tin can 10000 feet in the air makes me hyperventilate. This woman is showing the effect of claustrophobia and overoxygenation, too: To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious […]
Writing advice from C.S. Lewis
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. 2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. 3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you […]
Mr. Condom
I happened upon this TED Talk through the Melinda Gates talk on contraception. Gates was studied and sober, and made her case well, explaining how she was spending some of her billions on family planning. This guy, on the other hand, went the “cheap and cheerful” route, and has (it seems) singlehandedly and quite quickly […]