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The average home, then and now…

A recent article at [LJUrban][] gives a pair of data points on the [average home size](http://www.ljurban.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry070830-005122) in the US. One of the cool things about our home–it was exactly the average size (1050 square ft) for single-family detached homes when … Continue reading

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Crepe recipe

On her last night in the US, [Claire](http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/08/31/claires-visit/) made crepes for us from her mother’s recipe. They were amazingly good! Try these with some [Nutella][] if you dare! Yum… [Nutella]: http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/08/28/nutella/ * 250 g (2 c) flour * 3 eggs … Continue reading

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Maalouf’s Taste of Lebanon

My buddy, [Andy](http://warboss.wordpress.com/), has been urging me for months to try the food at this Lebanese place he likes. But I’ve been coming home for lunch most days, and I wasn’t going to take my family there for dinner without

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San Francisco touring suggestions

We had a great time when we took [Claire](http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/08/31/claires-visit/) to San Francisco, but there were a few things we could have done to improve the trip. I’m documenting all this

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Claire’s visit

Several months ago, Barb signed us up to host a French foreign exchange student. We were hoping to have our [remodeling project](http://sonicchicken.net/remodel) finished before that time came, but unfortunately we were still living in a house under construction when Claire … Continue reading

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Markdown formatting broken

Pair upgraded our web server last night, and in spite of all the work I did to get the blog software updated in advance, it still got broken. All of my Markdown-formatted posts are displaying the following message: Warning: preg_replace_callback() … Continue reading

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Nutella

We went looking for a source for Nutella here in Sacramento last week. Neither Barb nor I had seen it in “regular” grocery stores, so we checked all the specialty (read “expensive”) stores: Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc. Barb finally … Continue reading

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Afrofunk

While we were visiting San Francisco yesterday, we heard a band playing out in front of Pier 39. They sounded pretty good, so I picked up their CD on the spot: “[Funkiest Man in Africa][]” by [AfroFunk][]. (The band is … Continue reading

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Tags are back

Took a bit of work, but tags are back up! I was originally (2005) using Felix Wong’s plugin, but it hasn’t been updated yet. So I installed the latest (and *final*, sob!) version of [Ultimate Tag Warrior](http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2007/06/30/ultimate-tag-warrior-fin-the-end/) by Christine Davis. … Continue reading

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Remodel URL broken

Nuts! The URL I’ve been using for our remodeling project was broken by the recent WordPress upgrade. (Well, technically it was the old tagging system that broke.) So I’ve temporarily changed the remodel URL to point to all blog posts. … Continue reading

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