Roaming Monkey

A High Dynamic Range image of the lifeboat launch aboard the Steamship William G. Mather, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Captured with an HTC Evo 4G using HDR Camera+ for Android.

I gave a talk, at the June 1st, 2010 meeting of the Grand Traverse Linux Users Group, about doing your own NAS on the cheap. The slides were done using Eric Meyer’s S5.

erect a small tent–five stout poles of deep thought–two each for the ends and another for the ridge, bound by silvery cord–make the veil, a sturdy canvas of words and fever dream imagining–leave it behind without looking backward, a shelter for another in the deepest woods and tangle

Filet de Bœuf en Croûte, a.k.a. Beef Wellington.

Matambre is an Argentinian dish of butterflied flank steak rolled up with various herbs and vegetables. The name is a portmanteau of “matar” and “hambre”, and the loose literal translation is “kills hunger”, or “hunger killer”.