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I like to cook and spend a fair amount of time in my kitchen. I eat a lot of yogurt: full-fat and no flavorings. Lots of beans: garbanzo, fava, kidney beans etc. Rice, eggs, lentils, vegetables and couscous.

I also bake a fair bit. Here is a dead simple cake recipe: http://cixa.org/about.php.

I have a pretty high metabolism so I snack during the day on fruit: pears, bananas, apples. Dried fruit: cashew-nut, almonds, walnuts, prunes.

I have increasingly become become vegetarian over the last year after having eaten fish and meat for the last decade. In a previous life I was vegan for sixteen years.

This has less to do with calorie-counting or religious dogma than the gradual awareness of things; mindfulness, if you will.

The manner in which meat and fish are raised, butchered, transported and sold in the west is disgusting. This has led me to eat a mostly vegetarian diet.

This reminds me of the opening scene in Juzo Itami's <i>Minbo-no Onna</i>. Nobuko Miyamoto's character does something similar with the yakuza.

Desiderata. Desiradata.

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Language acquisition is scrappy. Immersion, cinema, osmosis, books, tapes, Wikipedia, supermarkets, recipes on soup cans, ATM interfaces, ingredient lists, the street - whatever works.

This extension probably works best for those with some degree of acquaintance with the target language, if only for the errors you spot.

Three months ago I made some photos in my toilette, exposing photographic paper to the screen of my IBM R51.

I called them 'laptopograms'.

Two weeks ago I launched a Kickstarter project called 'Fillum Fallam'. This is a film short to-be.

I intend to shoot it on 16mm and print each frame by hand. The short itself revolves around themes of food and film.

These ~3 minutes of film / ~3000 frames will take up the next ~8 months of my life.

I am trying to crowdsource the budget via Kickstarter. Do take a look: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cixa/fillum-fallam-fi-al...