Resources for developing a vocabulary of tastes and techniques in Chinese cooking

I just responded copiously to an Ask MetaFilter question about this topic.

In case something unfortunate happens to my reply, I’ll copy it in toto over here, but here’s the link to my answer too.

Security/Privacy – Disk/File wiping not nearly as rigorous as I was led to believe

Just a short update.

It turns out that even the venerable Peter Guttman (who proposed in 1996 or so that we use a 35-pass wipe according to a strict algorithm to protect our old/deleted data) thinks that with today’s storage and recovery technologies, only a few passes are now needed to protect us from snooping.

I used [...]

Rules of Social Interactivity

Found my way to this via kalmn.

They’re basic rules of social interactivity, by Jörm von Motörhead.

They’re very good. I strongly recommend a think you should read them only if inclined. Should you find them helpful, they may remind you how to behave in general, and I assure you that they hold pretty well in think [...]

Happy belated birthday to me!

Last night, we had a wonderful protein rich dinner with silverbackbutch and biblespice, to celebrate various birthdays and victories!

It was a good time. They helped drink beer from our fridge that has been languishing and needs to be drunk before October.

They also brought cognac soaked peaches and fine chocolate. We got more than a little [...]

How to: Make useful comparisons and anologies between oppressed groups

hlwiley asked me in a recent comment whether I thought were any useful analogies to be made in the -isms spaces. I responded that while I thought in general, analogies are really sticky and tricky and dangerous things, I would think about it and get back to it.

Here’s my attempt at starting the conversation.

On the entitlement of safety and its relationship to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and anti-racism

In which I shall attempt to explain how I think entitlement/privilege is related to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and how I think you can use your entitlement/privilege for good.

Updated: To try to clarify a bit.

On posting about race and isms – scope

After a particularly good talk with H, I have a lot to say. I want to break it down and talk about it in chunks both from the point of view of not knowing exactly how much energy I’ll have tonight to do it and also from the point of view of being able to [...]

Another flowchart

Idea totally ripped off from Gary Dauphin’s Should I use blackface in my blog? flowchart. I find Visio a lot easier to work with, though it doesn’t allow any sort of easy image mapping in HTML that I can tell. More tinkering is clearly needed.

Meanwhile, I present for your enjoyment an examination of how fraught [...]

Fable II Pub Games – just blind luck

So I downloaded Fable II Pub Games a few days ago and have been steadily accumulating inventory items and unlocking higher stakes games. (I probably will buy and play Fable II, probably with the birthday mad money my Mom sent me – Thanks Mom!)

This evening, while unlocking higher stakes games in Keystone (which is a [...]

Meme – Very Good Taste’s (blog) list of foods I’ve eaten

A meme!

via sparkymonster.