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QotD: The Holiday Hustle & Bustle

What’s on your “to-do” list to prepare for the holidays? How will you use technology to help you get everything done?
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Pre-production on THE MOST AWESOMEST CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYLIST IN THE HISTORY OF AWESOMENESS has already begun.

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An Internet Find: Horrible, Horrible, Horrible

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Parting glances of Elwood Glass Festival '09

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xina

Mmmmm...pie.

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KCRW's 1st Annual Good Food Pie Contest

Registration is now closed. If you entered a pie and have a question, please contact Harriet at harriet.ells@kcrw.com.

Thank you to everyone who entered -- we've had a tremendous response! If you already registered, please bring your pie(s) to center of the Canyon on the first level of the shopping center, right next to BCBG and Coach at 12:30 pm on November 14th. You will be responsible for slicing and plating your pie for the judges.  KCRW will provide plates and forks for you.  Bring a knife to slice your pie and label your pie plate if you wish to reclaim it after the event. Judging will begin at 1:30 pm.

Date: Saturday, November 14
Time: 2pm - 4pm 
Location: Westfield Topanga, Canyon Atrium 

Judges:
Mark Peel - Executive Chef & Owner, Campanile
Russ Parsons - Food Editor for the LA Times
Stefan Richter - Chef & Owner, Stefan's at LA Farm; Former Contestant on Bravo's Top Chef (Season 5)
Eric Greenspan - Chef & Owner of The Foundry on Melrose
Elizabeth Belkind - Executive Pastry Chef/Owner of Cake Monkey
Amy Scattergood - Food writer, LA Weekly
Eddie Lin - of the blog DeepEndDining.com and the book Extreme Cuisine
Amelia Saltsman - author of The Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook
Pim Techamuanvivit - Food Blogger and author of The Foodie Handbook
Clifford Wright - Noted Chef and Cookbook Author, Co-Founder of the Venice Cooking School

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xina

Mmmmm...pie.

Google Maps

KCRW's 1st Annual Good Food Pie Contest

Registration is now closed. If you entered a pie and have a question, please contact Harriet at harriet.ells@kcrw.com.

Thank you to everyone who entered -- we've had a tremendous response! If you already registered, please bring your pie(s) to center of the Canyon on the first level of the shopping center, right next to BCBG and Coach at 12:30 pm on November 14th. You will be responsible for slicing and plating your pie for the judges.  KCRW will provide plates and forks for you.  Bring a knife to slice your pie and label your pie plate if you wish to reclaim it after the event. Judging will begin at 1:30 pm.

Date: Saturday, November 14
Time: 2pm - 4pm 
Location: Westfield Topanga, Canyon Atrium 

Judges:
Mark Peel - Executive Chef & Owner, Campanile
Russ Parsons - Food Editor for the LA Times
Stefan Richter - Chef & Owner, Stefan's at LA Farm; Former Contestant on Bravo's Top Chef (Season 5)
Eric Greenspan - Chef & Owner of The Foundry on Melrose
Elizabeth Belkind - Executive Pastry Chef/Owner of Cake Monkey
Amy Scattergood - Food writer, LA Weekly
Eddie Lin - of the blog DeepEndDining.com and the book Extreme Cuisine
Amelia Saltsman - author of The Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook
Pim Techamuanvivit - Food Blogger and author of The Foodie Handbook
Clifford Wright - Noted Chef and Cookbook Author, Co-Founder of the Venice Cooking School

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Elwood Glass Festival wares

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More Elwood Glass Festival...

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2009 Elwood Glass Festival Highlights

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Scooter Kitty

Narwhals are Awesome!!!

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Good morning! Getting ready to run 9 miles with Miss K. Blades is off at her mom's so she's not joining us today. I would rather be curled up in bed because (1) it's still dark out (2) it's freezing out there and (3) I'm still sleepy!

So, in order to wake up, I thought I'd listen to this ridiculous Narwhal Song. I don't even know what cartoon it's for..all I know is it's cracking me up.

Another plus for this morning..the House passes a health reform bill!!!

All right..off to torture my body! Happy Sunday Folks!

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Katie

iPhone!

I got an iPhone today, after wanting one for a very, very long time.

I've had it for little over 12 hours and am already wondering how I functioned without one. My last phone was horribly out of date (it was 2 and a half years old) and didn't really...well....do much. Texting tweets to Twitter was about the highest of tech that it could do.

So, anyway, now I have an iPhone and have joined the tech elite.

As someone who holds a minor in Philosophy, the fact that I am basically expanding my memory and productivity via an external device is a bit scary and disconcerting (I'm thinking that calling myself "Kwad-Kore Katie" might be going a bit overboard.) I hope I will learn from the information provided by my iPhone, and that I won't become dumb and complacent, knowing that it will do whatever work needs to be done for me.

I find the whole thing rather easy to use. The touch keyboard is not bad at all, hell I probably make fewer typos on that than I do on a normal computer keyboard. I have been using Macs and iPods for several years so I'm used to the whole Appley interface.

Anyway, any tips and recommendations on apps and the like are most certainly welcome!
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