My girl­friend has been growing fresh herbs. We lit­er­ally have more herbs than we know what to do with. This requires a new approach to recipe searching. The result of my searching tends to be a set of recipes that, maybe a few years ago, I never would have made for lack of fresh herbs. For example, I plan to make this recipe for Chicken Tagine tomorrow. For those of you like me who do not know what tagine is, here is the answer from the Oracle:

A tagine is a type of dish found in the North African cuisines of Morocco, which is named after the spe­cial pot in which it is cooked. The tra­di­tional tagine pot is formed entirely of a heavy clay which is some­times painted or glazed. It con­sists of two parts; a base unit which is flat and cir­cular with low sides, and a large cone or dome-shaped cover that rests inside the base during cooking. The cover is so designed to pro­mote the return of all con­den­sa­tion to the bottom. With the cover removed, the base can be taken to the table for serving.

It’s hard to use all the herbs she is growing. We cook for our­selves. I would have to pre­pare a large feast in order to use a sig­nif­i­cant amount of fresh herbs. The one excep­tion I can think of is pesto. Sadly, my girl­friend is not a big fan of pesto.

In other news, some of my Flash ani­ma­tion work has popped up on the Inter­nets recently. Ani­mated ads I cre­ated for Street Fighter IV are showing on the Com­plex Video web­site. These were a bit of work but they’re fun. The art­work was already done; all I had to do was figure out how to ani­mate it. During the process I also learned a few new Flash tricks. Also launched today is an ani­mated product announce­ment for Tek­elec. This ani­ma­tion started as an exper­i­ment in ani­ma­tion tech­nique that worked out better than antic­i­pated. It’s a tech­nique that I will prob­ably use in the near future for other projects.

Found online: there are some really good things done with maps on the web. The Lonely Planet web­site has a very cool Google Maps imple­men­ta­tion on their web­site. Take a look at this example on the site’s “Taiwan” page.