SRDas

SRDas, 2 hours ago to Pittsburgh

Decided to give the kids a bit of a treat and perhaps support the not kids anymore but young band nevertheless - #GretaVanFleet playing at PPG Arena in #Pittsburgh
Up in the nosebleed with kids (partners enjoying quiet time at home). Opening act Mirador is pretty good.

Stage in darkness lit up with blue lights from high above
Indoor stadium setup with a stage in the distance

matthewskelton, 15 hours ago to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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SRDas, 2 days ago to Oakland

Oh another fixture gone!
Lost phi bar a few years ago (turned into a Chipotle ☹️) at Craig & Forbes in #Oakland #Pittsburgh

Now next door Orient Express is slated to close. (But ps notes a new restaurant will rise in Fall)

Sheet of paper posted on the glass. Text reads: A bittersweet announcement: After 19 years of business, Orient Express will be closing its doors for the last time. We are very proud to have served CMU and the greater Pittsburgh community our best Cantonese recipes since 2005. Our patronage spanned folks of all walks of life and cultural backgrounds, and it was our sincere pleasure to meet you all, learn your favorite flavors, and serve you our staple dishes. While the operations of Orient Express were often grueling, our wonderful customers gave us reason to work tirelessly. The owning family members are all moving onto different chapters. May, the matriarch is (finally!) retiring after 40+ years in the restaurant biz. Shirley is in the process of interviewing for industrial design related positions, but in the meantime, can be found enjoying her funemployment. Stanley, who transitioned from Front-of-House Manager to Head Chef, is taking an overdue staycation after the long hours manning the wok. Following a few weeks of well-deserved rest, he will be searching for new employment opportunities, so please reach out if you think he'd be a good fit. If you need to get in contact with us, please find Stanley at stan@oeonforbes.com We wish everyone the best. Good luck and be kind. Orient Express P.S. Keep an eye out for a new restaurant opening this Fall! P.P.S. Martin, if you see this, we can refund you your remaining gift card balance!! Email us!

SRDas, 2 days ago to food

Had a couple of really nice people over for dinner. Hadn't seen, met them for year+ maybe 2 and they're leaving for new (and most terrific) positions next week. Both former grad students, now finished postdocs and the most wildly accomplished/published kids. Kerala-esque sour fish curry (meen moilee) and Bengali style alu among other things. And they got for us Brazilian laddoos (ok brigadeiros; I ❤️ condensed milk but wow these were sweet, ok I ate 3)

#Food

Kerala style fish curry with coconut milk, yellow from turmeric in a white bowl
Table with a number of dishes and rice and salad
Small round Brazilian laddoos - brigadeiros - small balls in small paper liners, some white with coconut flakes and others chocolate & covered with 100s&1000s (round sprinkles)

SRDas, 4 days ago to random

Blood Orange

(random appreciation post)
#Fruit

Cut half of a blood orange

Uair, 4 days ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

skinnylatte, 5 days ago to random

I love that I can casually make chawanmushi in the instant pot like it’s NBD (really easy once you’ve done it a few times). It’s one of my favorite things to eat and I hate paying so much money for them at Japanese restaurants

dgar, 5 days ago to random

Hi. I’m. William. Shatners. Speechwriter.

SRDas, 5 days ago to Pittsburgh

They've changed some of the routes, so I ended up on the wrong bus and got off downtown at not my usual spot and had to walk a bit to get to the train station. So here you too can enjoy some nice downtown (or dahntahn as they say in) #Pittsburgh buildings in this lovely blue sky weather

Old Church with two towers and tall skyscraper and blue sky with high white wispy clouds
Old Church with tower and spire with tall skyscraper in 3 buildings behind and blue sky with high white wispy clouds

boozyANDsour, 7 days ago to cocktails

Tonight's #aperitivo #aperitif is a #virginbloodymary

150ml tomato juice
15ml lemon juice
16 drops of Tabasco
8 drops of Worcester sauce
Half barspoon of horseradish sauce
A pinch of salt
Grounded pepper to taste

Shake&Strain in a tumbler with a big chunk of ice and garnish with a lemon twist.

Just what you need to be satisfied without getting fat.

@drinkstodon

#cocktail #cocktails #mixologist #mixology #homebarista #homebar #drink #drinks #food #drinkporn #mocktail

Mecojoni

SRDas, 7 days ago to food

Light lunch - "tiffin" perhaps
Uppuma and sambar

South #Indian #Food

SRDas, 7 days ago to baking

It is risen!
And after the 2nd rise this morning, ah - soft as a baby's bum

Partner gets busy with dough this Saturday morn...
[developing thread 1/n]

#Baking #Cooking

boozyANDsour, 8 days ago to cocktails

Tonight's #aperitivo #aperitif is a great cocktail from the prohibition era: #betweenthesheets

30ml light Cuban rum
30ml cognac
30ml triple sec
10ml lemon juice
A scant barspoon of simple sirup
3 drops of saline solution

Shake&Strain in a chilled coupe and garnish with a lemon twist.

I love brandy cocktails, and I love rum, so this one is one of the best I've ever made myself.

@drinkstodon

#cocktail #cocktails #mixologist #mixology #homebarista #homebar #drink #drinks #food #drinkporn

Mecojoni

SRDas, 9 days ago to random

Cooking in the kitchen and Kid1 called black pepper - 'sneezoning'
and now I'll never get that term out of my head

skinnylatte, 10 days ago to food

LA food diary.

Some of you know I’m a big fan of LA food. I think that dollar for dollar you get a tremendous amount of cuisines, varieties of foods, in this melting pot which feels to me like it has far more immigrant and working class food than the Bay Area. Even the density and quality of ‘fancy food’ is high!

I’m keeping a record of my LA 2024 discoveries.

#Food #LAfood #LosAngeles

SRDas, 10 days ago to art

File under #homeschool #Art I suppose
Been a while since she did some henna - last was in 2023 while in Japan*. Kid2 worked on Mom's hand this afternoon
#Henna

*https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/110999285418574017

Palm side up hand on a table with intricate henna covering almost the whole hand, palm
Palm side up hand on a table with intricate henna covering the whole hand, palm up to the wrist. A henna cone/tube is next to the hand