2024s
-
Happy birthday Roland!
This was a pretty great Roland 6.0 release. Happy that I’ve known you since the 4.x days.
Here’s to many more releases!
-
Went to Slo Coffee on Fraser today. Nice place, was packed but also pleasantly cool with good air conditioning.
I had a hibiscus espresso tonic and Rachael had an iced pistachio matcha with oat milk.
-
My first time having maple blossom pickles (right). Also pictured: house made sea asparagus pickles (left) by Milan.
-
I have been eating at Kim House for 20 years.
It used to be on Seymour across from my first Gastown office, is now on Pender at Richards, a few blocks west of #zspace.
#Vancouver #restaurant #Gastown
-
Just heard about a new coffee / pastries / ice cream shop coming to Chinatown being run by some rad people.
Just down the hill from #Zspace, super great energy happening.
#Vancouver
-
Checking out the West of Main Art Walk today. From Main Street to UBC, so not really “walkable” easily, but we’ll be out and about to see what artists are clustered where.
Is open today May 25th as well as tomorrow May 26th from 11a to 5pm.
#Vancouver #art
-
We went to VANCAF (the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival) today.
It’s at the Roundhouse today and tomorrow (May 18th & 19th). Absolutely packed, lots of great art, prints, stickers, pins, books and more. Recommended!
#art #vancouver #vancaf #event
-
Wasp nest in the rhododendron outside our apartment window.
Photo is zoomed in so a little digitally crunchy looking. About the size of a fist.
Took care of it by blasting it with water. Unfortunate, but right outside the windows of the whole building.
-
Played a round of disc golf at Little Mountain for the first time in a very long time.
It was nice to be out in the sun and walk around and shake the dust off a little.
#discgolf #vancouver
-
This is Arthur Erickson Place, renamed after the architect who designed it.
Yes, brutalist AF
#Vancouver
-
Car rental drop-off means a breakfast sandwich and cappuccino from 49th Parallel Lucky’s
-
I now have the power to make my own espresso tonics in the office. Dangerous!
-
New office dog friend, Edie.
-
Morning coffee at Nemesis, with strategically framed Harbour Centre in the background.
I have a new coworking desk. Haven’t had space here in #Vancouver #Gastown for 8 years, and before that was somewhere in the area for 12 years.
-
Spent the evening at a music show by the Elliot Freedman Group.
It was hosted by Notional Space, a gift economy run venue that is a unique private home in my neighbourhood.
I love what Mark & Yumi are doing with the space. We need more like this.
#Vancouver #EastVan
-
Today is my birthday.
This picture is from 49 years ago. 1975, summer, Eagle Cliff Beach on Bowen Island. That’s me being held by my mom.
-
I had an amazing intro call with part of the Besonda team this week.
It’s a non-profit focused on co-op based cohousing for BC.
I’ve been feeling that something like this needs to exist, so it’s amazing to find an org like this getting started!
#coop #cohousing #BC #housing
-
It’s Fat / Pancake / Shrove Tuesday so I’m making Eierpfannkuchen for dinner.
Simplest recipe: 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour. Pinch of salt, pinch of sugar.
I’m just getting started in the pancake mines.
#FoodWiki #German #pancakes #FatTuesday #cooking
-
My mom made spaetzle for lunch, and had this “Landfrauen kochen - Traditionsrezepte aus Württemberg” cookbook.
Translated “Farm women cooking - traditional recipes from Württemberg”, which is an older Swabian region of Germany centered around Stuttgart.
-
I watched “Union Street” tonight, a documentary about Vancouver’s historically black neighborhood of Strathcona.
Rather than being focused on displacement, it features a number of great local makers.
The Georgia Straight has a write up. Recommended!
#Vancouver #EastVan #movie #Strathcona
-
Campaign launch for Tangara Music Player today:
Tangara is a cool, hackable, ESP32-powered music player that provides high-quality audio, long battery life, and a design that’s easy to customize, repair, and upgrade.
It’s the year of tiny hardware, so yes, I ordered one!
#music #openhardware #opensource
-
Trapped inside or coming out to play?
-
Our oven bottom burner is broken. It’s going to be painful dealing with our property manager to get fixed.
But it does have me thinking about the Anova Precision Oven.
Anyone have first hand experience with it or something similar — countertop convection + steam?
#FoodWiki
-
A picture of me cheers-ing with likely some sort of hazy fruit ale somewhere in San Francisco, Jan 27th, 2020.
Old glasses, and I look a younger and skinnier.
Cheers to a “good” 2024 everyone!
#onthisday
-
Made lard by rendering pork fat in a crock pot (middle jar, white).
I added in 6 yellow onions and let that cook overnight (jar on the right).
The first jar on the left is the broth + fat I scooped out of the onions.
#FoodWiki #food
-
Found out that Glorious Organics Co-op is going to have a new drop off location for their CSA boxes at Mucker Next Door this year.
Sign up on the website to get notified when they open for new membership.
#Vancouver #CSA #EastVan #coop
-
Dinner at The Pie Shoppe tonight.
- Salad to share and some nice olives
- “The Kent” pizza, charred pineapple, spicy coppa
- Slice of Raspberry Rhubarb pie.
Updated opening hours, added pizza as cuisine for #OsmVancouver
#Vancouver #restaurant #EastVan #pizza #pie
-
I guess I signed up to get notified of new releases of the Numbeo Cost of Living Index by City. It’s a comparative baseline with NYC as 100%, and there are 362 entries.
Canadian cities start with Victoria at 52nd to Halifax at 83rd. There’s a second cluster with Mississauga at 103rd to Edmonton in 124th place.
#Canada
-
A list of of 22 bakeries that make delicous bread in Vancouver, by Scout Magazine.
#FoodWiki #Vancouver #bread
-
The Dystopia is doing great, thanks for asking.
This was a test of a security system at a construction site that I walked past on the weekend. Original audio!
-
Bread is complete. I’ll let it cool, wrap it, and see how it tastes for breakfast tomorrow.
The “no knead” technique was first widely shared in 2006 in the NY Times Cooking section.
Here’s my entry for it in the FoodWiki.
#FoodWiki #baking #bread
-
Chad and his wife Kumie gave me a bit of their family miso back in June, in a container in this bag with instructions.
- cool dark place
- mix once in summer
- ready to eat fall
And: おいしくなった, roughly translated as “it will have become delicious”
It is delicious! Thank you friends!
#FoodWiki
-
We were in North Van today and went to a Filipino restaurant Alloz Grill for lunch.
I had garlic rice with beef stew & a sour tamarind pork soup (pictured), Rachael had all-day-breakfast Longsilog. We got a leche flan to take home.
#FoodWiki #restaurant #Filipino #NorthVan #OsmVancouver
-
Overnight rise of No-Knead bread recipe. It’s been a long time since I’ve attempted bread.
#FoodWiki #baking
-
Trying out Phở Jade “the place for noodle soup lovers”.
It’s got a pretty big menu. I tried a large bowl of pho with all the meats to get a baseline.
It’s good! Fragrant floral broth.
#Vancouver #EastVan #FoodWiki #pho #restaurant #Vietnamese #OsmVancouver
-
Turns out it’s Timbertrain’s 10th anniversary — and they’re doing a giveaway raffle if you subscribe to their newsletter.
This is my #EastVan local and before that the #Gastown location was our afternoon macchiato stop.
#Vancouver #coffee
-
Rachael got started shovelling, I finished it off and did the sidewalk.
I took the second picture where you can see it’s snowing enough to start covering things again.
#Vancouver #snow #BCStorm
-
Jazzed my way through making a beef stew with lots of onions, red wine, and roasted red peppers.
It’s similar to Spanish Chilindron, when I went to go look for recipes afterwards.
I was thinking about paprika, but just added some tomato paste & Calabrian chillies right at the end.
#FoodWiki
-
I got all my Google Maps saved places exported and imported into FacilMap.
But! They’re all just labelled as “Point” and lost the name of the business.
More research on GeoJSON and FacilMap import formats needed.
-
I made up a recipe for Whole Wheat Coconut Waffles. It’s a modification of the Buttermilk Waffles recipe I use with my vertical waffle maker.
#FoodWiki #waffles #baking #coconut
-
Went to Jang Mo Jib on Robson for lunch. Had Gahl Bee Tahng with all the fixings. It’s a nice second floor space!
#FoodWiki #Korean #restaurant #Vancouver
-
Cocktail orange for breakfast. Also known as a mandelo, for “Mandarin + Pomelo”.
All citrus are actually hybrids of mandarin, pomelo, and citron (chart via Wikipedia).
I collected some links on the FoodWiki and learned about the UC Citrus Experiment Station.
#FoodWiki #citrus
-
Some fun packaging at the Sungiven Foods at City Square. Sungiven is pretty great, with stores all over Metro Vancouver.
Photos are of Soda crackers (sea salt) aka shark edition, and (chive) aka caveman and dinosaur buddy.
I didn’t buy candied olives, but I did buy candied plums.
#FoodWiki #Vancouver #grocery
-
Went to the new Oidé Coffee location at the Waterfall Building near Granville Island.
Black sesame pastry is very tasty!
#FoodWiki #pastry #Vancouver
-
Dragon fruit for breakfast. Bought it at the Sungiven when I went to City Square Centre for Nine Dumplings yesterday.
#FoodWiki
-
I’m wandering around #Vancouver today.
If anyone is around in the next couple of hours, I’m going to go for lunch at Nine Dumplings.
I’ve been told it’s now in the City Square Centre food court.
I guess I’ll tag this a #FediMeetup
-
After several months of tinkering with Cloudron, the server management system you install on your own Ubuntu server for self hosting apps, I put together some notes on it, including total costs and a description about apps / types of services it can provide.
#selfhosting #Cloudron