Pie-pod

November 22, 2004

Is it a blog about finding the best pizzas in NYC or a weblog designed to sell an I-pod application? The following text has been lifted from Slice, (a weblog built around an I-pod application) to help you buy the best pizza in New York. Hm.

piPod 1.2 is now available. (Download it at right.) Significant upgrades to ver. 1.0 include implementation of additional Browse-by-Neighborhood hierarchy within boroughs subsections. (Users who prefer browsing by pizzeria may still do so.)

Added functionality also includes cross-referenced linking among entries. Typo minimization was also deployed for this release; users of 1.0 will notice that you can now buy “pints” of sauce from Di Fara sted “points.”
(Please read more… )

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The Year of the Hedgehog

November 18, 2004

Pictured above is a Chinese cookie with a happy little girl dancing next to an ignited stick of dynamite.

Boey says that my interpretations of the images on the Chinese cookies are all incorrect (see the June entries). The hedgehog turns out to be a monkey - from the Chinese zodiac, and the frog doesn’t have fans in it mouth but coins - symbolising prosperity. Silly me.

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Latvian Master Baker

November 17, 2004

I’m living with Latvians again. This time Emils has brought wife/girlfriend Simone and its cosy as can be. They brought me some highly crafted rye bread from Riga. Normally the loaves are 50cm across, this loaf being a cute mini export version.

The bakery claims to be the ‘only bakery in Latvia to have restored the ancestral Latvian national traditions…’ I’m going to assume that’s a Latvian to English translation glitch on the label.

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