friends – Strictly Speaking

juice where possible

By: susan

04-11-2007

I had brunch this morning in the Village at a place called Deborah where they serve lots of good unusual options, plus “fresh squeezed juices” “where possible.” Now I’m not a professional chef, but it seems to me that it’s not that difficult to serve fresh squeezed juices in everything. To what dish is it impossible to add juice? Luckily the huevos rancheros I ordered did not contain juice, nor did Alison’s “married” eggs (not sure what that was about, but it’s how the dish was listed on the menu). Damien had french toast that included strawberries, so I imagine they contained some juice, although presumably not squeezed.

Also there was a dish that no one ordered which was described as

3 links Linguisa sausage 2 sliced (low sodium) Spam with toasted garlic steamed rice, 2 eggs and salsa verde

Now if you look at the image above, you’ll see that the meats are claimed to be “free-range”. This begs the following questions:

“Low sodium” Spam — WTF???
“Free-range” Spam — WTF???

That is all for now.

What Walt said to me when I pointed out that he had mis-spelled the name Henri Lebesgue (as Lebesque)

By: susan

21-09-2007

random

“Yeah, I’ve been doing that since I was a child.”

(More on Monsieur Lebesgue here)

a trip to the Red Hook ball fields

By: susan

15-05-2007

random

Pupusas in Red Hook from tractorfeed on Vimeo

a wine post

By: susan

19-12-2006

food, friends, nyc

A friend of mine works at a wine shop in Chelsea called “Appellation” which carries mostly organic and biodynamic wine. Because I’m frequently in the area, I often drop in to see her and pick up a bottle. I end up getting whatever she recommends because I trust her taste, and it gets me to try things I might not otherwise. A few days ago she told me she wanted me to try something which it turns out I’ve never had before: sparkling red wine! It’s called Solo Reggiano and it’s from the Medici Ermete winery in Italy. Apparently the winemaker himself is from that Medici family, and had been in the shop earlier to show them his stuff. I asked if he had been wearing a codpiece and tights — sadly he hadn’t. But the wine was nice, strange, but fun to try. She told me to chill it and serve it with anything. We had it with a broccoli rabe orecchiette dish, but I could imagine it with a wide variety of things, actually.

urgenteyextranjero

By: susan

29-11-2005

friends, linguistics

urgenteyextranjero

Originally uploaded by sararyan.

What occurred to me when I looked at this photo and its caption (Put your urgent foreign mail into this lion’s mouth) is that the use of AND here could be interpreted either with the distributive or collective reading: does the lion accept mail that is either urgent or foreign? Or does an individual piece of mail have to be both urgent and foreign for it to enter the mouth? The former reading is probably more likely, but ignoring for the moment VPs which *require* collective readings (gather, be numerous), it seems like the distributive reading tends to be preferred, ceteris paribus: ‘these letters are urgent and foreign’ seems to require that each letter be both urgent and foreign. Or perhaps my intuitions are shot to hell and I am completely wrong about this. I know this mereology stuff is oh so popular these days with the semantico-philosophy set, but it’s always seemed to me like something pragmatics should solve.

this year it’s Max

By: susan

24-10-2005

friends, linguistics

I’ve been reading On Direct Reference which is an article by Harry Deutsch in Themes from Kaplan. Besides being notable for featuring my friend Max prominently in the examples (along with Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali), the article has been making me think about naming and possible worlds. On Deutsch’s interpretation of Kaplan, before a naming event takes place, say in 1969 before Max was born, then the unassigned name Max denotes nothing “in all possible circumstances” (including possible worlds in the future, such as 2005) but once that dubbing occurs, then the name denotes in all possible worlds. So in 2005, it is correct to say that ‘Max’ denotes Max in 1969 and in 2005. But in 1969, ‘Max’ did not denote anything either in 1969 or in 2005. It is just too bad that the War On Drugs was so successful because it might have really helped if I… oh never mind.

August in Maine

By: susan

15-08-2005

friends, Maine, sounds

Thanks to knowledgeable houseguests, I now know what the tiny-apple-looking things are in the front yard. Other information acquired includes the correct pronunciation of ‘artisanal’ and how lobsters mate.

With aforementioned guests we went down to Somes Pond after dinner and floated on our backs and watched the remnants of a meteor shower in the sky. Theme song for this entry: [http://tractorfeed.com/strictlyspeaking/sounds/Nightswimming.mp3]

Heinrich’s in NY again…

By: susan

01-08-2005

friends, nyc

NYC Collection,
originally uploaded by stamer.

…and he has quite an eye for fixtures. I love the subway tile on the wall with its pleasing 2:1 ratio.

Strictly Speaking

juice where possible

What Walt said to me when I pointed out that he had mis-spelled the name Henri Lebesgue (as Lebesque)

a trip to the Red Hook ball fields

a wine post

urgenteyextranjero

this year it’s Max

August in Maine

Heinrich’s in NY again…

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