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Baker, baker
My one serious low-tech hobby (besides playing with our cats) is baking. I enjoy making sugary treats that I probably won’t partake of myself and distributing them to hungry co-workers.
(Which is sort of a problem at my new assignment because there is seemingly a never-ending supply of tasty, decadent breakfast tacos, cakes, pies and brownies; my wares were much more in demand back in ¡ahora sí!)
While I do make a high-tech concession to baking (a KitchenAid Pro Empire Red mixer that got me on this kick to begin with and was on super refurbished discount on Amazon), mostly I try to keep it simple: good ingredients, recipes from Epicurious, off-the-beaten-path results (this season I’m experimenting with chipotle peppers and chocolate. I’m no Miss Adventure in the kitchen (she has offered fantastic advice on fine entertaining), but it’s nice to do something at home that doesn’t involve holding a mouse, a remote controller or power tools for the yard.
I didn’t do the SunRocket deal. It’s the holidays. I’m busy. I’m making cookies. I don’t have time to think about voice-over-IP right now and all its implications.
Call me next week, phone rep guy, when it’s super slow.
MySpace is being offered on Cingular phones as a downloadable application.
However, unlike Google’s fantastic little e-mail application, this one’s not free. You have to pay $2.99 a month to use MySpace which is about $2.99 more than I’m willing to pay for that.
MySpace is fine and all, but I’m not ready to pay to browse it.
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