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No More Asians on Top Chef

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What a surprise in Top Chef Episode 9, Napa’s Finest. In the last round before the finals, frontrunner (and only Asian) Lee Anne Wong was eliminated leaving Harold, Tiffani, and Dave. Dave cried his way to the finals, Harold’s stomach curdled his way in, and Tiffani crassed herself to Vegas, leaving Lee Anne to pack up her ginsus and go home.

This outcome caught the judges by surprise as revealed in their blogs. Both Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons didn’t think either Tiffani or Lee Anne would finish in the bottom of this week’s challenge, but there they were.

Up next for Top Chef is a reunion episode with the return of all contestants then in the following week, the two-hour finale to crown the Top Chef.

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The Double Life of Blogging

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Do you live a secret double life as a blogger? Do you have to blog about interesting tidbits under a pseudonym to protect your identity?

Okay, we do things to protect privacy, but it’s not too hard to figure out who’s who (or at least I think so). Regardless, the last line of the article says it all:

If you’re adding something that’s valuable to the debate, that will remain valuable regardless of whether you have your name attached to it.

Find your voice, express your voice, and be free.

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Only Asian on Top Chef

Another entertaining episode of Top Chef played on Wednesday night. Last week, snack king Miguel was booted off the show for being Top Sous Chef and not Top Chef. In this week’s challenge, Wedding Bell Blues, the Chefs are asked to plan and cater a wedding for a gay couple. But the chefs don’t know that the ceremony is in 16 hours.

Scott and Scott, the engaged couple, wanted an Asian fusion theme for their meal at which point Lee Anne says the line of the episode, “As you can see, I’m the only Asian in the room.” Needless to say, Scott and Scott selected her menu for the ceremony. That’s when the Chefs were unfairly told that the wedding was in 16 hours.

I say unfair since the judges placed the Chefs in an unwinnable situation. “Make their dreams come true,” “most important day of their lives,” “translate those dreams into edible reality,” says the judges. So the Chefs go all out with fanatastic ideas. Then get told they only have 16 hours until the ceremony then get critized for picking such a difficult menu to prepare. I think things would have been different if the Chefs knew they only had 16 hours to prepare. Menus and ideas would have been scaled back to meet realitic timeframes.

In the end, it was sommelier Stephen who didn’t pull his weight in the kitchen that had to pack up his knives and go.

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Jordan Player Exclusive for Ray Allen

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When SuperSonic Ray Allen broke the NBA record for 3-pointers in a season, he was wearing some serious Jordan XXI Player Exclusives! Those yellow Jordans were sick. Talk about timing of breaking the record and wearing these flashy joints!

At a half-time interview with Allen, it was mentioned that at his current rate of making 3’s, he could pass Reggie Miller as the all-time NBA three point shooter in three years. Jordan Brand better start designing something to top these yellow XXIs.

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Inside the Jordan Factory

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What a treat! Although I missed this episode of ESPN2’s It’s the Shoes, somebody put this highlight clip on YouTube. Host Bobbito Garcia gets a tour of the Jordan Factory where Air Jordans of past, present, and the future are conceptualized and designed.

Check out the Jordans littering the place! Visit the Closet, the War Room, and the Player’s Exclusive Closet. Some tidbits from the video-all Jordans are planned out 18 months in advance of their release and some Player Exclusive Jordans will be sold to the public this Holiday Season.

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Top Chef is Cooking!

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Been watching a lot of Bravo’s reality TV show to find America’s next Top Chef, and it’s really entertaining. Who knew a cooking show could be so fun to watch?

Each week the chefs have a challenge to perform with interesting twists to test not only their cooking abilities but their teamwork and creativity. After each contest, one chef is eliminated while the winner gains immunity for one week. The show is down to the last 5 chefs from the starting 12. Smug and snooty Stephen is still there. Emotional Dave is holding up. Harold is still quietly in the hunt. Lee Anne and Tiffani are going strong.

You can catch up with the shows since Bravo repeats them a lot. Or if you can’t wait for reruns, the episodes are available on iTunes.

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Find Your Voice

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So now that you got more free time since you adopted RSS, what do you do? How about doing some introspection. Find your inspiration, find your muse, find yourself, and find your voice.

Then, when you’re ready, express your voice. Speak your mind and get your ideas out there. Make a contribution, big or small. Talk about how your gym sucks, boast about your superiority over guys, describe your masochistic beatings you receive, or joke about finding romance on the Internet. Let your voice be heard.

Find your voice, express your voice, and be free.

RSS Newsreading Is a Game Changer

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After choosing to go with NetNewsWire over Endo as my RSS newsreader/aggregator, I’ve been re-evaluating my web reading habits and noticed that I rarely visit web sites as a starting point. I have a bunch of RSS feeds that I subscribe to with NetNewsWire, and I use those feeds as my starting point. I no longer fire up my browser and go to site after site in my bookmarked favorites.

I save quite a considerable amount of time by looking at the headlines and/or summaries of the RSS feeds instead of visiting each site and waiting for pages to load. Additionally, I don’t get ads in RSS feeds that clutter up the screen or open pop-up windows. I can subscribe to much more news sources and scan them quickly in a shorter amount of time. This is a game changer.

I’m not saying that strictly using RSS feeds is the only way to go. I still do visit web sites, but I find more and interesting content via RSS feeds. Sometimes, the entire article is included with a site’s feed so I never have to visit the site, and that’s perfectly fine with me. The feeds that include nothing but headlines are irritating (you hear me ESPN.com?).

So, if you’re looking for ways of getting more information in a shorter amount of time, then strongly consider using RSS feeds and news aggregators.

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Mac (Hardware) Officially Does Windows

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My how things have changed! Today, Apple officially endorsed the installation and running of Microsoft Windows XP on Intel-based Mac hardware. Using Apple’s Boot Camp (in public beta), legal WinXP users can install XP on a Mac and dual boot between the “X” operating systems, OS X and XP.

There have been recent hacks that allowed the installation of XP on Mac hardware, but now Apple’s making this an official reality. Why would you want to run XP? I don’t know, but if you got to, you might as well run it on the best and most elegantly designed hardware on the market.

Now I definitely need a MacBook Pro!

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