By Popular Demand: Niu Rou Mien Recipe

If you liked the photo in the previous post, here's the recipe I started with:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Taiwanese-Beef-Noodle-Soup-231502

And here are the modifications:
  • Only 3 cloves of garlic? Are you KIDDING? Tripled.
  • Salt & peppered, then browned the meat on all sides
  • Put browned meat + liquid + veggies back in pot & brought to a boil before...
  • Put pot in oven at 350F for 2.5-3 hours (until meat was falling off of the short-ribs bones)
  • Part way through, tasted & it was a bit too anise-y, so pulled some out
  • Threw in a large bag of spinach as we served
Next time:
  • I'll remember to add the pickled mustard greens! Totally forgot'em.
  • Would start w/ a little less start anise
  • I might throw in some tendon & maybe even more beef - we have lots of (awesome) soup left over, but the ratio seems a little off

A VC: HTML5 Mobile Apps

I saw two HTML5 apps yesterday. One running in my Android browser. The other running in the iPad browser. They looked and worked exactly like their mobile app counterparts. It was a mind opening moment.

There still are issues. When I went to show one of the HTML5 mobile apps later, my mobile data connection wasn't there and I couldn't load it in my Android browser. But a friend told me you could cache all the elements, including the database, on the phone and deliver an offline experience in HTML5 in the browser.

I've always disliked the idea that we have to download apps on our phones when the apps we use on the web are loaded in the browser on demand. But I've accepted the mobile app paradigm as something we will be living with for the next five years.

I'm not sure it's five years anymore.

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My TSA Encounter – NO BLASTERS!

2:20 pm - Mon, Nov 22, 2010
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My TSA Encounter

“You don’t need to see his identification.”

On November 21, 2010, I was allowed to enter the U.S. through an airport security checkpoint without being x-rayed or touched by a TSA officer.  This post explains how.

Edit:  Minor edits for clarity.  I have uploaded the audio and it is available here.

This past Sunday, I was returning from a trip to Europe.  I flew from Paris to Cincinnati, landing in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. 

As I got off my flight, I did all of the things that are normally requested from U.S. citizens returning from abroad.  I filled out the customs declarations, confirmed that I hadn’t set foot on any farmland, and answered questions about the chocolates that I had purchased in Switzerland.  While I don’t believe that these questions are necessary, I don’t mind answering them if it means some added security.  They aren’t particularly intrusive.  My passport was stamped, and I moved through customs a happy citizen returning home.

But wait – here was a second line to wait in.

Read the full encounter at noblasters.com