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I threw this together for Mr. Pants yesterday, and apparently it was delicious so I thought I'd share.  I'm not really big on measuring stuff (which is why most of my baking efforts fail), so amounts are approximate.

Ginger Beefs 

Cut up about a pound of beef into 2" x 1/2" strips.  I cut up some Sirloin Tip steaks.  Put your beef strips in a non-metallic bowl and add.

2" - 3" chunk of fresh ginger grated*
4 cloves of garlic minced
1/4 cup of soy sauce**
1-2 tbsp of olive oil

Mr. Pants works as a graphic designer doing print design, and wrote this wonderfully snarky how to list yesterday and posted it on his site , and I just had to share it.

7 steps to creating your own business cards 

Step 1: Go to your company's website, and right click on your company's logo, save it to your desktop. If your company does not have a website, do a google search for a logo that you like, and save that one to your desktop.

Working late this evening, having a few glasses of wine and riffing over some stuff with a co-worker who sends me a link to this Magic eight ball website...

By popular demand, here is the recipe for those vegan chocolate chip cookies I make. I use dairy-free chocolate chips, unbleached flour and soy milk, but this works just as well with regular ingredients. This recipie yields about four dozen cookies, but the measurements can easily be halved and it turns out just as well.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Canning is something I've managed to grow up without learning about (among many, many other things), and what little I do know: hot stove, fancy equipment, sterilizing stuff, the possibility of accidentally contamination, botulism, germs, bacteria, *gasp* poison!

Walking down Charles St the other day with a co-worker and stumbled across this:

Interesting...

So its our third summer in our house, and for the third time - I've planted a vegetable garden. Its a funny thing, each year I've had wildly different results. As a general rule, 70% of what I plant will grow and yield something, the other 30% will have succumb to some sort of problem or just *not* grow. The weird thing is that out of the 70% of things that actually grow, every year I'll have one or two things that do exceptionally well (sometimes to the detriment of the stuff planted around them).

So I've finally managed to find some time to wrap up the overhaul on my personal website, and now I'm trying to decide whether or not to migrate all my old blog posts over to my new system or leave them to rot over on Blogger.

I've decided that going forward - I'm going to use the Blog module available in Drupal, not that there is anything wrong with Blogger - I'd simply prefer to have all my content on one system, in theory having everything in one place will make it faster and easier for me to update the site more *ahem* regularly.