In case you actually follow this blog, just a note that I’ve pretty much consolidated my entire online presence to Google Buzz. Posts on this blog will be fed into my Buzz, and anything I tweet will also hit Buzz first. Some thoughts and links, additionally, will only live on Buzz.
Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image. Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most “interesting” part of the image to crop, so you won’t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your (More…)
Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image. Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most “interesting” part of the image to crop, so you won’t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your (More…)
Get a whole fish, cleaned of guts and scales. A 1ft rainbow trout is good. Cut slits into it every inch or so along both sides, and place into a shallow bowl. Finely chop about 2 tbsp scallions and 1 tbsp ginger, and sprinkle this under, over, and inside the fish. Drizzle soy sauce over (More…)
After a bout of reminiscing about the homeland tonight, I decided to make a soup I recently learned from my mom. Here’s the recipe, along with a recipe for an accoutrement, garlic cucumber salad, and an important condiment, chili oil. This recipe, which makes roughly 2 servings, is a variation on the classic Chinese egg (More…)