Pancakes made from scratch taste so much better and only requires a tiny bit more work. We have pancakes almost every Saturday at our house.
Pancakes
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 T brown sugar, packed
- 2 T oil or melted and cooled butter
- 4 t baking powder
- 1/4 t salt
- 1 1/4 cup milk
Break the egg into bowl and beat with a whisk.
Add flour. brown sugar, oil (or butter), baking powder, salt and 1 cup of milk to the beaten egg.
Whisk gently and then dribble in milk until the mixture dribbles gently from the whisk. If it blops, it’s too thick. If it runs, it’s too thin and you should add a little more flour.
I’ve had a bad last couple of months. Once school started again for the kids and work picked up, I really got off my training schedule. My goals for November are pretty basic:
- Run the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in Maudsley State Park
- Lose 5 pounds (sigh)
- Work up to runing three 30 minute runs a week
- Cross train twice a week
Welcome to my weekly analysis of the news coverage of social media. I use Northern Light‘s free NLSearch.com business news site to find the stories that cover social media and Web 2.0 for the last week (full disclosure – I head up marketing for Northern Light). I list the 10 most mentioned mainstream companies, venture funded companies, technologies, and market mentioned in these stories and highlight interesting articles I find. The lists are in order of the number of mentions in the news articles, starting the the most mentioned.
Here are my seach terms – (“social media” or “social networking” or bookmarking or “social networks” or blog or facebook or twitter or linkedin or wikis or podcast or “photo sharing” or “video sharing” or “social news” or “web 2.0″ or “enterprise 2.0″ or “user generated content” or “virtual community” or “social web”). Am I missing anything?
Hot Companies
- Google Inc – mostly coverage of the Motorola/Android smart phone.
- Microsoft Corp – mostly coverage of the Windows 7 release as well as converage of Windows Media vis a vis Andriod, plus these tidbits:
- Windows 8 is on its way - A recent job posting by Microsoft revealed the successor to the recently launched Windows 7 is already at its embryonic stage.
- Office 2010 Beta Exposed -The 32- and 64-bit versions of the Office 2010 Beta have appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites.
- Apple Computer Inc – more smartphone coverage
- iTunes music library makes its way to the browser – Apple quietly launched a new preview service this week that makes it easier for users to view its iTunes music library from the browser.
Earlier is year I set my mind to figuring out a create recipe for roasting chicken. I read a lot of recipes and advice and roasted several chickens to develop the following recipe. The keys to my chicken system are starting with a brining the raw chicken overnight and using high heat at the start and end of the roasting period.
Brine
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 2/3 cup kosher salt
- 3 quarts cold water
- 1 bay leaf, torn into pieces
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme (or 1t dried thyme)
- 4 garlic cloves, peeledor 1 t dried garlic
- 2 allspice berries, crushed or 1/2 t allspice powder
- 1 teaspoon peppercorns
In a large bowl or pot, mix the sugar and salt into 1 quart of the water until dissolved.
Add the bay leaf, thyme, garlic, allspice and peppercorns and mix well. Fresh herbs are definitely better, but if you don’t have some ingredients the substitutions I suggest work pretty well.
From Pew Research by way of the Sales and Marketing, and Communications Practice of the Communications Executive Council:
“Beat to Your Tweet?”
“Corporate identify theft” is emerging as a major concern on Twitter. Indeed, even the biggest companies struggle to control unauthorized uses of the brand in people’s Twitter handles. Communicators are right to worry about the image repercussions, given Twitter’s mushrooming audience base (currently standing at 19% of U.S. internet users). According to reps, Twitter is trying to speed up and simplify the account verification process, which will help companies “repossess” handles from interlopers.
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Update on the impact of social media on Internet usage from Twitter:
@andybeal: 56% of page views on the web are to user generated content! @bobbrisco #pubcon
Twitter has launched a new feature called “Twitter Lists.” Lists are not just lists of Twitter users, but allow you to create groupings of the Twitter streams of people you’re following. Using Lists, you can organize the people you follow into groups of similar Tweeters. You could create a List of your colleagues, or a List of social media marketers, or a List of runners who Tweet, or a List of recommended Tweeters. Lists are helpful if you follow hundreds of other people and you want to organize them into manageable clusters.
How to create a List:
To create a List, select the “New list” option from the right hand navigation on your Twitter Home or Profile page.
Give the List a name and access level – either Public or Private. Private lists will have a locked icon next to them in your list of Lists.
Then add Twitter users to the List. You can search for users and add them to your list from their Profile page.
Last January I decided to “lost weight and get in shape” . A great goal, obviously, but how? I started by watching what I ate (thanks Sparkpeople!) and walking for exercise. But I soon realized that I wanted to push myself and decided to start running. In April, when the snow finally started to melt I went for my first shambling run in some old beat up sneakers. I ran for about 20 minutes and just over a mile, but I persevered. I kept at it and was to go faster and longer. In July I ran my first race since the 10th grade. I was slow – but not the slowest! As I improve, I keep upgrading my goals. I’ll probably never run a marathon or a sub-8 minute mile. My goals, while hard, are not impossible – complete a 60 minute run once a week, run 3-4 times a week, complete a 5K in less than 30 minutes, finish a 10K.
Now I love to run, I love the feeling of accomplishment, I love the “runner’s high” after a hard workout. Now I think – I’ve done one hard thing – what else can I do? Learn an instrument. Learn a language. Take up painting. Redesign a user interface for ease of use and clarity. Take up cake decorating. Write a blog post at lease one a week. What else can I squeeze in? So many things to learn and do … so little time. Tick, tick, tick.
Inspired by “Do hard things” from Lead on Purpose
Doing hard things means intentionally taking action toward something that you know will not be easy, and yet the end result will far exceed the effort you will exert the pain you will suffer.Knowing the road will not be easy, why should you do hard things? One reason stands out in my mind: doing hard things instills in you a sense of accomplishment and the knowledge that you can do what you say you will do. You build self-worth from which the desire for continuous improvement springs.
I am registered for the following races this Fall:
- 20th Anniversary Apple Harvest Run 5 mile, 5k and 1 mile in West Newbury on Sunday, October 04 @ 12:00 PM. I plan to run the 5 mile race.
- Dorothy’s Run 5K in Newburyport on Sunday October 18 @ 12:45 PM
- 20th Annual Turkey Trot in Maudslay State Park on Thursday, November 26 @ 8:20 AM. 3.1 miles X-country
Greetings citizen scientists, budding biohackers, and backyard explorers! We think you’ll find the Make: Science Room a fun and useful resource. We hope you’ll use it as your DIY science classroom, virtual laboratory, and a place to share your projects, hacks, and laboratory tips with other amateur scientists. Your Make: Science Room host is Robert Bruce Thompson, author of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture. (Make: Books, 2008) and Illustrated Guide to Forensics Investigations: Uncover Evidence in Your Home, Lab, or Basement (not yet published). We’ll be drawing material from these titles first, but will soon branch out into biology, astrononmy, Earth sciences, and other disciplines. We’ll be adding lots of material on a regular basis, so check back often.
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Geekdad has a guest post this morning by Leslie Harris, CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology – How to Handle Facebook Privacy Settings for Your Kids.
Facebook is now a kind of “social hub” for teens. As the social network has increased its offerings and integrated more with third-party applications and software, it now functions as their main portal to all online communications including e-mails, news and chatting with friends. The convenience and functionality is the main pull for teens and, let’s face it, for adults, too. With such a strong reliance upon a relatively new technology, how can we ensure that our kids know how to stay safe as they integrate more and more of their lives onto Facebook?
