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Friday December 22, 2006

Five Things

Alexis has tagged me with the "five things you may not know about me" blog. Going back into the generations of who has been tagged is fascinating (seems like it would be fun to write a bot to plot this!). Now if twbray approves of this it must be OK! About tmarble:

1. I am bilingual in French (writing is significantly harder, though!). This has led to fun things like sharing the stage with Kim Polese in Versailles and being interviewed by French Journalists.
2. If I continue to workout regularly I'm on track for my black belt in Tae Kwon Do in August 2007.
3. I am an oenophile. Allow me to recommend the Bistrot du Sommelier the next time you go Paris, or the California Wine Merchant the next time you go to San Francisco.
4. I enjoy cooking. I'm thinking about doing a blog on remix cuisine based on a recent adaptation of veggie loaf
5. My professor was Otto H. Schmitt. Otto was truly a renaissance man: I learned so much from him. It's too bad he's remembered only for the Schmitt Trigger as he contributed so much to engineering and critical thought in general.

Thursday October 19, 2006

Confiture Maison

Je suis ravi de vous faire connaître le nouveau blog de mon amie Vanessa: Confiture Maison


Ce week-end dernier j'ai aidé Vanessa à choisir un site pour blogger. En amont il y avait la question classique: comment traiter les photos?

J'ai tout d'abord pensé à une solution logiciel libre, mais finalement opté pour Picasa. Je suis un peu méfiant de Google, mais le bouton "Blog This!" était trop tentant pour l'ignorer. En plus j'ai entendu de bonnes critiques. Il faut dire que j'était assez impressionné par la facilité de l'installation et d'utilisation.

Le bouton "Blog This!" necessite le site Blogger; ce que nous avons fait.

Choisir un nom de blog n'était pas évident. Vanessa souhaitait "MeltingPot"... un nom pas mal qui rappel à la fois la cuisine, la diversité culturelle américaine, et puis le fait qu'elle a des origines françaises et vietnamiennes. Finalement, elle a choisi Confiture Maison qui marche également bien et qui donne envie de découvrir ces recettes délicieuses!

Et regardez comme Vanessa n'a pas perdu du temps... Elle a déjà réussi à paraître dans le Blog Actu. Tout cela donne faim! Bonne continuation Vanessa!

Posted by tmarble ( Oct 19 2006, 01:08:02 PM CDT ) Permalink

Wednesday June 14, 2006

A Dieu Grandma

Today we will say our last goodbyes to my Grandma
who almost made it to 99 years old.

When I was growing up we often had a big Thanksgiving meal
at my Grandma's house... the kind of of dinners that seem
to last forever when you're a kid. In retrospect these
are some of my fondest memories of my Grandma.

I remember I wrote a story about those dinners.
And, from the "who would have thought?" department I actually
found that story right where those sorts of things should
be (in filing cabinet #3). During that era I did not
systematically date my works, but I'm fairly sure it
was written for my eighth grade composition class.

Here is that story (Teacher's comments omitted ;-)

Grandma is waiting for guests today. Her house is kept
clean and everything is in its place. "Come in sit down
make yourself at home." Sunday's paper is fumbled again
here. She has a smile with some blank thought. The
table is ready, the doily just so. There's turkey and
stuffing and jello and salad. There always were more rolls.
"Would you like some more, here."

I wandered into the den, the coach was welcome. Her
house is kept clean and everything is in its place.
The coo-coo clock is the same on the wall. "If you would
like to watch TV, the TV Guide is in there somewhere."
She has a smile with some blank thought. Why does she
always talk about her other grandchildren. I don't care
how much better they are. There always were more rolls.
"Come now it's time for lunch, have some pie."

Dressed up and uncomfortable I'm in a soap opera.
Her house is kept clean and everything is in its place.
I wish I could be home. Dad "it's time to go, it's
getting late." She speaks nicely with some blank thought.
"It was nice of you to come. Daniel writes me every week."
"Here take some rolls with you." On the way home I can
relax and sleep.