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2 cans tuna unstrained

Half a small onion

Two cloves garlic

Sesame oil

Two large Spoonfuls of pepper paste

shoyu (soy sauce)

2 eggs

I am going to let this stew for a while and eat it with rice. Believe it or not, it's so good so far--the only problem is that I let it reduce too long and now it's a tad salty. I'd like to try this again with canned clams and pepper flakes.

On another note, my hosts are now suspicious of my offer to try to make pad thai for them.

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I can't really explain what happens when, as an artist, you get that message from the inside that says "time to make another one." One day you're sitting around, living off the fat of the land, and then as if from out of nowhere, it taps you on the shoulder. The slate goes shiny and clean. Those colors come back - it all starts as colors - then moods, then settings, then sounds, then words. And churning beneath that the entire time is the doubt; doubt that you'll find the rhyme, doubt that you'll ever connect that verse with that chorus, doubt that you have anything left to say that matters.

I live for that streetfight, though. The knock-down drag-out anything-goes battle between what you have in your hands and what you *think* you might possibly have in your mind but have no proof of. But when you win, man... look out. There's nothing better. Why go back at it so soon? Because I suck at everything else and I hate being reminded of it.

If you think we writers do what we do for anything else than patching up voids, you're mistaken. It's all void putty. Take away the guitars and the songs, and my life story becomes completely unremarkable.

- John Mayer

Must return to void patching.

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Her and her husbands company make games for iPhones. This summer one of their games was the third most popular in the iTunes store!

According to Natalia:

In the extremely competitive market of iPhone games, they must stand apart from the rest. They use social media as one of these markers.

They have actually integrated Twitter into their games. Users can tweet their score from the game--and a link goes back to their game.

Social media allows you to create an extended reality space that you carry with you everywhere.

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Nice to see another journalist now in social media

Shel Israel gave a broad overview of the benefits that Twitter offers to us today. His main points:

- Social media allows any institution to listen and respond in ways that they could not previously. 

- We don't hate large institutions because they're large. We hate them because they reduce us to eyeballs. We have had no recourse to respond to a deaf TV set. Now that we have Twitter, we have an avenue to respond. 

- Twitter allows us see the real people behind the real jobs. 

Woah, a second ending!
- What's the future of social media? We've gone through a period of an enormous innovation of tools. This is disruptive to most people in the world. They can't do what they've always done.
- The next step will be more boring: We will learn to implement these new social media tools. Social media will "normalize."

Great question from @sokunthea, of the Case Foundation, on social media and the future of journalism:

- Journalism schools are preparing students for jobs that won't exist. (Personally, I think this depends on the journalism school. I'm thankful for my j school education.)

- The journalism model started crumbling long before social media arrived.

- Israel believes social media has stepped into that void.

- Twitter is very fast and very shallow.

- There needs to be a professional organization that operates as a watch dog. We social media amateurs can't fill that void. But now there is a feed of citizen folks. These two components need to figure out how to work together.

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