Colors

Last week, I was just driving around Austin when I saw this house (and the car). Luckily I had my camera with me.

Also offtopic, the recent cartoons on userfriendly are quite funny (where they try to sell a 'cold swap power supply' ). It reminds me of the recent wildfire of keywords; AJAX, Web 2.0 ...

Coffee: The Vietnamese way

Inspired by the coffee at Pho's on Burnett (near PRC), I got a Vietnamese coffee machine of my own from the local oriental supermarket. The recommended coffee is not some exotic blend which needs to be roasted exactly 13 hours before being ground, but a generic can of a chicory mixed (stale ?) blend, Cafe Du Monde.

Add a dab of sweetened condensed milk (no evaporated or fresh milk) in cup, put a few tea spoons of coffee in the stainless steel thingy, compress the coffee, add hot water and let it drip. And you have a cuppa Vietnamese coffee to savor.

This is also very similar to how coffee is made in South India (Madras coffee) and not surprisingly, it tastes quite similar to it too.

Photo post

Caption: Simple colors
Location: UT Austin

I sort of liked this so decided to post it here. Selectively colored using Gimp (I'm not too inclined to spend $600+ for Photoshop). Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

Golden sunrise

It has been a long time since my last post. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then (I mean, I think so, the river might have stopped flowing for the last month and a half so I'm not really sure about the 'lot of water' part. In fact I dont even know which bridge I'm talking about).

There were a lot of noteworthy incidents in the meanwhile ... I tried skiing (and falling down) in December, UT won the Rose Bowl, the badly officiated superbowl, IE7 beta 2 being released, GTalk being added to Gmail (though the chat in browser isnt enabled for my account yet :( . I truly fail to comprehend why they cant roll out products to everyone at the same time; or least include me in the first lot) ...

Anyway, amongst the really rare events, I woke up before sunrise (and no, there wasn't any pending deadline looming over me) and decided to enjoy the golden sunrise in Austin.