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“La Cantinetta di Rignana”.

Chianti region, Tuscany, Italy.

Dining al fresca, overlooking the rolling hills of vineyards and olive groves glowing in legendary, late-afternoon Tuscan light. Like stepping into a fairytale.

The food, so simple. All made from fresh, local ingredients. Shown here is home-made caprini cheese and wild-boar carpaccio. We also enjoyed gooey oven-baked tomino cheese, and mushroom linguine. The pasta was almost stark in its simplicity – homemade noodles, local porcini mushrooms, and a drizzle of good olive oil. I still recall its fresh, earthy smell.

The experience reinforced something I heard once:  good quality ingredients speak for themselves and hardly require any preparation, but even the best chef can’t make poor quality ingredients taste good.

Love, love, love.

I was a little obsessed with cloth for a few months. I liked to make it look like melted wax. This was from a series of sketches in which I indulged in the stylization and shading of draping fabric.

It’s fun to pick one aspect to exaggerate/explore/overdo.

Common knowledge, soup fights the Sick wonderfully.

This one in particular will really rev up your immune system. Your basic chicken soup stock, plus lots of garlic and tomatoes and peppers and chillis and cayenne. All blended up so your body readily absorbs all the goodness.

Yesterday I found out I had Swine flu, and my temp was nearly 40C. Had this soup earlier today, and not only has my fever broken, I feel so, so much better.

Learning Labview (v. 8.6) right now and I got this error while trying to run code that accesses an external Data Acquisition Card (NI PCI MIO):

NI-DAQmx Error -50103 “The Specified Resource is Reserved”

Solution: Open up “Measurement and Automation Explorer”, click on “Devices and Interfaces” and then at the top of the browser on the right, click on “Reset device”.

A tasty, toe-tapping diddy by local Vancouver indie band ‘Said The Whale’. Love it.