As you know, I’ve been cooking a little more recently. I picked a couple stainless steel pans and a small cast iron pan.

Here are a couple of things I’ve cooked this weekend with Annie.

Scrambled Eggs and Garlic Salmon.

Steak Medium, the way Annie likes it.

Steak Medium Rare, the way I like it.

Slider burgers with caramelized onions, turkey hot dogs and bacon.

While these look good, I did manage to burn some fish and bacon. I didn’t know how they would react to high heat.

However, I think I’m getting the hang of it now. Leveling up! ^_^

Alexander Safonov has shot some of the most incredible photos. He’s a software architect from Voronezh, Russia who currently lives and works in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. Not content to sit in front of a computer full-time he obtained a diving license in 2002 and started to experiment with underwater photography about two years later. He has since made numerous excursions to photograph underwater wildlife off Cocos Island, Fiji, the Galapagos and Raja Ampat. However his favorite destination is the annual sardine run off the coast of South Africa where most of the photos you see were captured over the last few years.

Incredible work by Shintaro Ohata. I just love the emotion behind his work. The colors are brilliant. Man, I wish I had a ton of money so I could buy one of his pieces.

Shintaro Ohata is an artist who depicts little things in everyday life like scenes of a movie and captures all sorts of light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary sceneries as dramas. He is also known for his characteristic style; placing sculptures in front of paintings, and shows them as one work, a combination of 2-D and 3-D world. He says that it all started from when he wondered “I could bring the atmosphere or dynamism of my paintings with a more different way if I place sculptures in front of paintings”. Many viewers tend to assume that there is a light source set into his work itself because of the strong expression of lights in his sculpture.

This would be another awesome art installation in the office. Maybe I should do it for the next hackathon. Check out more of Joanie Lemercier’s art here.

Man, I’m really looking forward to this product. The idea of transforming my monitor into a giant tablet is pretty amazing.

I’m hoping to get the designer of the company to swing by my office sometime to give a demo. It turns out that he’s located in Fairfax VA as well. I’d love to be a beta tester for this product.

You can support the project on kickstarter.

We need to create an art installation like this in the office. This is too cool.

Reminds me of the LED cube.