Interior Landscape
1) I usually shy away from posting large images here because they didn’t fit on the screen of my old computer (even before I shrank it). This is an experiment: can you tell me if you have to scroll to see this photograph? And if so, what monitor size/screen resolution are you using? Many thanks. I know it is a terribly boring question.
2) At some point during the last two hours, I managed to skin a tiny portion of the knuckle on my right index finger. I just noticed; I have no idea how that happened.
3) My best guess is that it took place while I was prying the lid off the tamarind concentrate we used to make the South Indian curry that lives on page 124 of this cookbook (thank you, Estee dear!). It smelled absolutely terrific while we were cooking, and although its color did not exactly match the photograph in the book, it tasted—if I do say so myself—dashed delicious.
4) I am not sure why I decided to type “dashed” just there; I haven’t been reading any Wodehouse or anything. But I jolly well should, don’t you think?
5) I read a horribly depressing editorial in the New York Times today about the rapid and all but ignored decline in the numbers of various common bird species over the past few decades, including several different kinds of sparrow. After that every sparrow I saw on the way home was like a needle in my conscience. I wanted to apologize to them all for being so irretrievably, inexcusably human.
6) I finished the novel I was reading when I offended crazy balloon lady. I read its last few pages on the T, even though (to tell you the truth) every time I have fished it out since then I have looked around surreptitiously in case she was in the car. I wasn’t sure about the book at first—the narrator has a tendency to get just the tiniest bit too clever with language—but by the time I got to the end I kind of loved it in lots of bizarre ways. It also made me want to visit Bombay, so let’s get on that India trip, okay, family?
7) We have fresh organic strawberries in the fridge that simply have to be eaten. I must answer the call of duty. Later.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
The images look great with lots of room to spare — 14″ widescreen Dell notebook computer. No doubt the widescreen helps, but it does look great. I read that bird article as well. This was, in fact, a day of bad environmental stories. On the other hand a Senate subcommitte passed out a bill to tax the oil companies $29 billon dollars to do alternative fuels and electric hybrid cars. Let’s hope that passes, although King George might very well veto it.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:35 am
1024 x 168– 19″ samsung very square screen. Beautiful colours, though. Will try resetting screen resolution to a higher level.
vijay
June 20th, 2007 at 9:43 am
sorry, that should be 1024 x 768
vijay
June 20th, 2007 at 10:18 am
1024 x 768 on 12″ powerbook.
Yes I had to scroll, but siu siu only.
If those train tracks are the train tracks I think they are, we used to walk all the way down the tracks, past the homeless dudes, and onto the rail bridge over the Charles. then we’d jump onto the pillars of the bridge and smoke and talk cock over what was a stunning view of Boston. That’s one of my favourite Cambridge memories.
Careful of the trains though.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:51 am
they look perfick to me - i’m on 1440×900 g5 imac.
glad you guys are getting good eatage from that cookbook!
June 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I had to make the window larger, but it fits fine. —1280×800 on a 13.3 inch MacBook.
Birds too? I am still up in arms about frogs and bees.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Thanks for the detailed notes! I think I’ll mostly stick to medium sized images for now, because I see that the page takes noticeably longer to load.
‘Stee, it’s so awesome. I am about to have leftovers for lunch.
K — no idea if they are the same tracks. I can follow them and see if they lead to a stunning view.