8 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
1 onion chopped in big pieces
1/3 cup of olive oil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon sea salt (plus more to sprinkle on top)
freshly ground black pepper
3 1 garlic cloves, minced
1/8 teaspoon cayenne powder
1 tablespoon Dijon style mustard red wine vinegar
1 lime, juiced (or more to taste)

In a jar, shake oil, spices (including garlic) and vinegar. Mix the potatoes and onion into the oil mixture, then roast until lovely. Meanwhile, juice the lime. When the potatoes come out, toss them in the lime juice and serve.

People flock by the millions to Apple Stores. . . not just to buy high-quality devices but to bask and breathe and linger, pilgrims to a grand, hermetic, impeccable temple to style—an uncluttered, glassy, super-sleek style that feels “contemporary” in the sense that Apple stores are like back-on-earth sets for 2001: A Space Odyssey, the early 21st century as it was envisioned in the mid-20th. And many of those young and young-at-heart Apple cultists-cum-customers, having popped in for their regular glimpse and whiff of the high-production-value future, return to their make-believe-old-fashioned lives—brick and brownstone town houses, beer gardens, greenmarkets, local agriculture, flea markets, steampunk, lace-up boots, suspenders, beards, mustaches, artisanal everything, all the neo-19th-century signifiers of state-of-the-art Brooklyn-esque and Portlandish American hipsterism.

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/8 cup white wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon demerara sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
• 1/4 teaspoon cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl:

• 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
• 2 medium tomatoes, cubed
• 1 stalk of celery, diced
• 1 green onion, chopped fine
• 1 avocado, chopped
• 1 tablespoon cilantro, minced

Give the dressing an extra few shakes, then pour it over the salad and mix well. Serves 2-4 as a main course, or 4-6 as a side.

. . . or so I was taught in high school. But there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in the minds of high-school English teachers” (17).

Krauss, Lawrence M. Atom. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 2001.

Betsey and Harry had the kind of hi-fi set-up that involved loud-speakers all over the place, so you could hear the percussion from here and the strings from there. All that Betsey and Harry ever used it for, however, was off-colour stories and Presley. To be able to hear off-colour stories and Presley from several sides of the room at once did not seem quite worth the expense necessary to make this possible. (18-19)

Audacity
Gnome Wave Cleaner
icecast.org

and many more software links at Wikipedia: List of Linux audio software

Still to do: make dinner, then take a second run at Ganondorf.

Then this evening I ran across this, by the incomparable Dorothea Salo:

I heard yesterday that one such corpus, while of impressive quality and very highly regarded in the discipline, was all but invisible on its home campus, according to the corpus’s own staff. Basically, these projects are what I have previously called fiefdoms. (If you don’t like that word, you may wish to substitute “research lab.” Most of what I’ll say applies to them as well.)

Sustainability is the crucial flaw in any sort of fiefdom model for data management. Most fiefdoms get the ball rolling with grant money. This may commit the institution to a certain amount of financial or in-kind support (depending on what the grant spells out), or it may not. If it does, that institutional support lasts only as long as the grant does. No one in this cycle—not the researchers in the fiefdom, not the institution, not the grant agency, no one—takes responsibility for the post-grant existence of anything the fiefdom produces.

Sustainability: the institutional fiefdom