http://renf.org/dory Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:42:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } coffee break 2, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs. I went to New Orleans in January, leading a Hillel group through Jewish Funds for Justice to work with Rebuilding Together. What that means ... http://renf.org/dory/2010/03/winter-break-spring-break-coffee-break/ I have a new favourite: the Smitten Kitchen's Broccoli Slaw. It's a salad of broccoli and cranberries and almonds and red onions, with a dressing made out of buttermilk. As a devoted mayonnaise avoider I love the idea of slaw that is mayo-free. I've used the dressing on other things ... http://renf.org/dory/2010/02/buttermilk/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I love cat and girl, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs. more bikes, more billboards http://renf.org/dory/2010/01/i-love-cat-and-girl/ (by Dawn Landes) http://renf.org/dory/2010/01/bluegrass-young-folks/ I live on a busy street, and when I have the windows open I really hear bits of Empire State Of Mind coming from outside. It's kind of magical. I'm back in New York for the semester after a lot of bouncing around (Pearlstone, Vancouver, St Louis, Farrar, New Orleans, and ... http://renf.org/dory/2010/01/these-streets-will-make-you-feel-brand-new/ The other day, I suggested that you could talk around Olympic trademark rules: "the year between 2009 and 2011 models now in store!” And then today I read that Lululemon is doing just that, with their line of clothes called the "Cool sporting event that takes place in British Columbia between ... http://renf.org/dory/2009/12/lululemon-follows-my-advice/ This is great: The BC Civil Liberties Association is keeping a map gallery of Olympics-based censorship in Vancouver. Also apparently the International Olympic Committee has trademarked the word "winter" and the number "2010," so if you use either of those to promote or sell anything between now and the end of ... http://renf.org/dory/2009/12/olympics-and-vancouver-and-ridiculousness/ I can't believed that I missed this! From the BikeSnobNYC blog, (scroll down, scroll way down): New York City is striving to become more bicycle friendly, and to this end you may recall that Transportation Alternatives recently held a PSA contest (in which I served as a juror) in order to ... http://renf.org/dory/2009/11/more-on-bike-safety-and-smugness/ All of my work these days, for my final papers and such, is about New York and Food. So I sit in piles of photocopied printed and stapled articles and reports and draft legislation about food and agriculture and farm-to-cafeteria initiatives and maps of food deserts and on and on. It ... http://renf.org/dory/2009/11/new-york-and-food/ the food issue of the New Yorker a sad article about fetal alcohol syndrome in an old issue of the Walrus a secret quilt project the first year of my PhD http://renf.org/dory/2009/11/things-i-am-halfway-through-or-thereabouts/