Monthly Archives: January 2010

What I'm reading ed. 100131

Posted on January 31, 2010 by hermyt

If you haven’t read the State of the Union and the Obama-GOP Q&A, go ahead and read them now.  Otherwise, here’s the news of the past two weeks.  As usual, highlights are in red.     Politics Political corruption or … Continue reading →

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Obama & GOP Q&A // State of the Union

Posted on January 29, 2010 by hermyt

I’m back from FL, so hopefully the updates will get moving again. Meanwhile, the State of the Union was the big political news of the week. It was good (and definitely quelled the general panic in the liberal blog-o-sphere after … Continue reading →

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Your (dys) functional government: 177 appointments on hold

Posted on January 21, 2010 by hermyt

  Mainstream media is going nuts over the election of Scott Brown over Martha Coakley and what that means for health care reform and Obama’s agenda and blah blah blah. While I’ll agree that this probably doesn’t bode well for … Continue reading →

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Midweek Plug: Haiti donation pledge drive (updated!)

Posted on January 21, 2010 by hermyt

So it’s been about a month since the last midweek plug, but I’m really excited about this one. One of my good friends Livia (and her husband and her mom) is pledging to donate $10 $20 for every person who … Continue reading →

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Ashes to ashes, bytes to bytes

Posted on January 20, 2010 by hermyt

  One of the unexpected pleasures of going home for Christmas was going through my dad’s boxes boxes upon boxes of old files. There was almost nothing of sentimental value, just portfolios for projects long past. Still, it was fascinating … Continue reading →

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PSA: Swing Dance @ Northwestern on Jan 24

Posted on January 18, 2010 by hermyt

For those of you in the Chi-town area. I won’t be there ( D= ), but it’ll be awesome as usual     Swing Dance – Live music ft. Shout Section Big Band Jan 24, 2009 8-11pm in the Louis … Continue reading →

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What I'm reading ed. 100116

Posted on January 16, 2010 by hermyt

Way too much happens over the course of two weeks. It took me 2 hrs just to take all the links and clippings and format them >.< . But for now, here’s the news. Again, highlights are in red.   … Continue reading →

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In which I vainly attempt to be a food blogger…

Posted on January 13, 2010 by hermyt

Over the Christmas break, I went to my first certifiably fancy-shmancy restaurant in Chicago, Spring, home of Chef Shawn McClain, James Beard Winner 2006.     Generally not the sort of place I dine at, but my good friend wyu … Continue reading →

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The not quite New Year's post

Posted on January 9, 2010 by hermyt

New Year’s Eve/Day is a funny thing. While I’ll gladly take any excuse to take a day off and party, it strikes me as slightly amusing that we’re essentially celebrating an arbitrary marker of the fact that we’ve managed to … Continue reading →

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What I'm reading ed. 100103

Posted on January 3, 2010 by hermyt

Happy New Year, everybody! I’ve highlighted my top 3 4 reads.   Food   Know thy food: Beef Filler Processing (nyt) Mr. Roth and others in the industry had discovered that liquefying the fat and extracting the protein from the … Continue reading →

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