sarah sosiak

O Canada

Standing for O Canada at a medal ceremony in Vancouver. Full post on the Olympic trip to come. (Best viewed large.)

No Fixed Address

At Ocean Beach.

addLibbing

I’ve been having a lot of fun with the addLib iPhone app this weekend. From the developer’s site:

addLib mixes the Grid System, a fractal theory, the golden ratio and the Facial Recognition System, and then creates graphic design. It seems the layout is made at random, but it comes from the rigorous calculated system. These theories have been made through the process that people has been trying to find new expression, and they are also the ways, to capture very ordinary “beauty” in nature, namely algorithm.

$1.99 well spent. More photos on Flickr.

Update: Group pool on Flickr. Add yours.

Where I’m Going / Where I’ve Been

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A few weeks ago, friends and I were talking about how far north/east/south/west we’d each travelled. I started plotting places on a map to figure out my extremes, then continued until I had a relatively* exhaustive map and started adding places I’d like to go.

My NESW extremes (as measured from San Francisco) are:

• North = Gullfoss, Iceland (64° 19′ 34″ N)
• East = Helsinki, Finland (24° 56′ 15″ E)
• South = Xelhá, Mexico (20°19'2.22"N)
• West = Honolulu, USA (157° 49′ 34″ W)

Legend:

* Major-metropolitan areas are collapsed to a single city, I still need to fill out California, and I’ve not included every city/town/village I’ve spent time in in Ontario or stopped in while driving the Trans-Canada Highway. (That would make for a rather long (and tedious) list. Assume most of Eastern Ontario and the larger places between Sydney, Nova Scotia and Edmonton, Alberta along the TCH.) I’ve also spent a night in a small ski-town in Austria whose name I don’t remember.

Wild Things

 

At the California Academy of Sciences.

Flickr Favourites - 2009

Favourite photos from 2009. Slideshow below (On Flickr):

Mixed Media

Composite of the car-turned-container-garden at Flora Grubb Gardens.

Happy 2010!

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah

Bryant Park Holiday Rink, NYC

Eggnog Pancakes

Over on Twitter last night, I mentioned an experiement in making eggnog pancakes. I know I'm far from the first person to try this, but thought I'd share my method to spread the word on what just may become your newest holiday tradition.

I found that the sweetness and flavour from the eggnog held up on its own...no need for syrup. And that the extra sugar in the eggnog caramelized on the surface of the pancakes to add a pleasent bit of sugary crunch.

Super-simple instructions:

1. Take your favourite pancake recipie -- I used this recipie, as found on Kottke.org.
2. Replace whatever milk the recipie calls for with eggnog -- I added an extra splash of skim milk to thin the batter as I prefer my pancakes more crepe-like than fluffy.
3. Sprinkle in a bit of cinnamon & nutmeg.
4. Cook.
5. Enjoy.