Moving on

By DrDoubleU on June 25th, 2007
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Journeys from Dawn to Dusk

By DrDoubleU on January 21st, 2006
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My cousin Richard Szmyd put on the first exhibition of his photographs, Journeys from Dawn to Dusk, earlier this month. The extended Walaszek clan was out in full force, including yours truly. Richard’s focus is on capturing scenes at transitions in light, i.e., at dawn or at dusk. From the website of Unity in Chicago, where the exhibition took place:

Flimmering floom

By DrDoubleU on January 16th, 2006
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Maddy and I checked out Poetry Speaks to Children today on a trip to our bookstore-cum-library as part of our read-a-lot, spend-a-little plan. I am enamored of Carl Sandburg’s poem “On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride”, described on NPR as a “nonsense” poem, though lyrically it makes a lot of sense. It sounds spectacular, and I especially enjoy the words “flimmering” and “floom”, which give me all sorts of yummy ideas.

Bundt cake

By DrDoubleU on January 5th, 2006
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In 1950, H. David Dalquist agreed to try to mass-produce a bake pan necessary to make bundkuchen, a traditional German cake that may have its roots in the defeat of the Ottomans at the gates of Vienna: to celebrate European victory, the Viennese bakers created cakes in the shape of Ottoman turbans. Eventually, the Bundt(R) pan became the best-selling cake pan in America, and Dalquist’s NordicWare remains a top producer of baking equipment.

Dalquist died in January 2005 and the New York Times, in their year-end review of notable deaths, published an in memoriam of Dalquist and a recipe for Scandinavian Sand Cake.

With the help of Maddy and Lucy, I made my first Bundt cake. The best part of the experience was trying to grind cardamom seeds, resulting in the grinding of the grinder instead. Behold our creation in the picture!

Tech overload

By DrDoubleU on December 31st, 2005
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Cyberduck. SubEthaEdit. TextWrangler. Basecamp. Ruby on Rails. Python vs Perl.

I’ve gone overboard with the tech geekery and now need a serious break. Tomorrow morning the GWF heads off to an internet connection-free home in Chicago … so I should get some respite.

Latest holiday photos on Flickr

By DrDoubleU on December 30th, 2005
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Yes, the holidays are nearly over … and it’s time to update our Flickr photos. First up: the Geerts side of the equation.  (Also, check out the badass Flickr badge in the sidebar.  It’s Flash!)

Geerts-Walaszeks on Flickr

Stolen bones

By DrDoubleU on December 22nd, 2005
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My New Year’s Resolution: after my death, I would like to become a source of minerals for craven bone hounds. Alistair Cooke was apparently harvested for reincarnation as a dental implant or orthopedic compound, according to the BBC. Hmmm, I wonder how much our cats’ bones will be worth some day?

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Alistair Cooke’s bones ’stolen’

Holiday Cheer from the Girls

By DrDoubleU on December 21st, 2005
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Holiday dress-up

Originally uploaded by Geerts-Walaszek Family.

Madeline was in her first Xmas Pageant last weekend. No photos from that, just video, but perhaps I can capture some stills and post them. Madeline sang about Jesus and Bethlehem and so on. Lucy was fairly enthralled.

Ahhh lovely Alaska

By DrDoubleU on December 21st, 2005
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homerspit

Originally uploaded by ebensorkin.

Props to Eben for this lovely photo of the Homer Spit.

Mama, I need my Chocky Milk

By DrDoubleU on December 21st, 2005
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This morning, I gave Lucy her Chocky Milk. When Suz went in to see her, Lucy fessed up that she had already received a hit of the baba.