You are Jayne, the Merc

You have a unique sense of fashionable hats and a discomforting closeness with your firearms. You may be the object of adulation for a small group of people.

Take the Which Firefly guy are you? Quiz at HeavyInk.com

I sent this reply to Rick about… well, read for yourself

Don’t tell Charlotte. She wants a motorcycle but refuses to get one because she knows it’d be WAY too dangerous for her. And I should definitley NOT get a jet pack!
NOT
NOT!
NOT!!!

——– Original Message ————-
From: Rick Taylor
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:35 PM
To: Lee Sonko
Subject: Yves Rossy

http://www.jet-man.com/prod/index.html

You heard of this guy? Reminded me of your RC wings, thought you would be interested.
——– End of Original Message ——

I went to a molecular gastronomy talk put on by Michael Zbyszynski at Maker Faire a few weeks ago. Here’s the bullet points I wanted to remember

Get supplies here: http://le-sanctuaire.com/ 315 Sutter Street on the 5th Floor

Recipes: Read the “Hydrocolloid Recipe Book”

Sous Vide cooking (pronounced “sue veed”) is used by about 60% of the food on your plate at most restaurants.

Carrot Juice Caviar recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/Carrot-Caviar/
a very interesting example as to what you can do with molecular gastronomy

http://forums.egullet.org

A blog I found on the subject
http://thegreatindoorsman.com/?cat=17

Several years ago I ripped the original Hampsterdance.com homepage from Archive.org. It’s just a joy that every few months I get a thankful email from someone. Here’s the one I got today:

Hi Lee-

I just wanted to thank you for preserving the original hamsterdance so faithfully. I click on it whenever I need to smile!

Get some old-school internet joy right here.

(The sound might play automatically in your browser, or not. There is a link to the music at the bottom. Hey, it’s a faithful rip of the original site!)

Last month Melissa sent me a banana bread. I have to say that it was completely terrific. She wrote,

i made three, gave one to a friend and kept one. the one i kept was super cinnamon and was so good, it was a borderline cinnamon bread.

yeah that recipe is a total keeper…the secret are the folgers fresh crystals!

There you have it!

These people are amazing. If you are near New York City on June 1st, you should go see them. You won’t be sorry!

Here’s the email I got from them tonight

“A delicate blend of untamed nature dialoguing with new technologies, Lulacruza is a cornerstone in the musical DNA of Latinamerica.”

– Revista 23, Argentina

We’ll be playing in NYC at the beginning of June with an amazing video artist; and our incredible friend Dygn will be opening for us. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Lulacruza with live visuals in an intimate venue (please make reservations!) And forward this information to anyone in NYC who might be interested. Thanks!

Sunday June 1st, 8 pm
@ Monkey Town
Lulacruza
+ dygn
visuals by Lady Firefly

58 N 3rd Street (between Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Reservations: 718-384-1369 or go to www.monkeytownhq.com
$8 (they also serve delicious food)

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NEWS:::
Watch our new live mini-video/documentary: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RMRvefhAN_4
While in NYC, we will also be mixing our new album Soloina and getting ready for our South American tour in the Summer!

We hope the Spring is bringing you all a lot of beauty, understanding and expansion.
light resounding))))

ale & luis

www.lulacruza.com

“Seldom does a sound emerge so ripe and innovative. Lulacruza’s Luis Maurette and Alejandra Ortiz weave haunting female vocals with South American instruments and electronically manipulated field recordings.”
Visavis.com

“The universe of this duo spins around four elements: wind, earth, fire and especially water, creating primitive and vibrant songs. Like a nymph from the Andes Mountains, Alejandra hypnotizes you with a voice and lyrics that pay homage to Pacha Mama, mother earth to the Incas. Luis is in charge of creating the décor; an electronically processed primitive forest.”
Proyectounder.org

Update 5-28-10: It’s now easier to avoid Paypal Fees. Look here to find out.

If you receive money at a “Personal” Paypal account, and the other person sends money from their Paypal balance (and not from a credit card or echeck) then Paypal doesn’t hit you for a 3% fee.

Personal Paypal accounts can accept up to 5 credit or debit card payments annually. Credit cards are charged a transaction fee of 4.9% plus $0.30 on your Personal account. So you can accept payments from your friends (paying restaurant tabs and the like) with your personal account without incurring any of those annoying fees as long as your friend is paying you from their Paypal balance or an echeck. It can be a bother to maintain 2 Paypal accounts but you can end up saving over $150/year in Paypal fees!

My name is going to the moon. Well, it’ll go around the moon a whole lot, never to actually land, but that’s beside the point. NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) is being launched later this year and I registered to have my name written on a (hopefully radiation-proof, non-volatile) memory chip.

Sure, it’s silly. Sure, some unnamed readers of my blog with autonomous anarchic zones landlocked inside Arlington, MA, USA think that NASA shouldn’t be sending anything anywhere. But hey, my name is going to the moon!

And yours can too!

My cousin Christian and his baby sister!

It took a minute for Christian to warm up to being on a video chat. This was his first time. His mom told him to turn back around in the chair because all I could see was his butt… so I stood up and turned around. After we started talking about Webkinz and turning the camera sideways and such, we started having a fun time :-)

I bought my family webcams. We now chat on Skype with video chat often. It’s really terrific. Setting it up was easy. I’d just VNC into their computer and set it up for them… I’d tell my cousin, “Put in the CD that came with the webcam” [click click click]. “Ok, now plug the webcam in”. [wait a moment] “Can you see yourself on the screen?

“Yes!”

“Ok, now I’ll sign you up for Skype and put you in my address book. [click click click] And I’ll call you. [ring ring] Can you see me and hear me on the computer?”

“Yes! Oh this is terrific!”

1968: “2001: A Space Odyssey” video phone

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2008: My aunt in Florida chatting with my cousins in Nashville