Eye Level Pasadena

Dabney library reading nook

Dabney library (part of the Caltech library system)

San Gabriel Valley blogger and web designer Susan Kitchens* (2020 Hindsight, Family Oral History Using Digital Tools) is offering local hands-on Build Your Website in 1 Day workshops geared toward independent creatives and people with small businesses:

You’re in the greater Los Angeles area. You’ve got some computer skills. You surf the net. You’ve bought stuff online. You’re comfortable using websites that make you fill out forms to get stuff done (send email, send message, sign up for something, make a purchase).

You’ve thought about web sites. You’ve made some inquiries. You’ve found the prices scary: $500? $1000? $2000? $5000? More!? Eeek– your inner CFO says you can’t spare that kind of money on a site. Not right now.

But you still need that web site.

So you weigh the alternatives.

You could build it yourself… Sure, buy that book, figure out HTML, how to construct pages. But you haven’t done that yet because, well, you’re working on the really important stuff — your idea or service that the web site is going to be about. The do-it-yourself route sounds like such an impossible time-sink. It’ll take weeks! Or months!

Is there some kind of in-between way?
A way to have a website that’s so well-behaved that it practically runs itself?
A way that you can work in the spirit of do-it-yourself without having to learn an entire new discipline? At a price that your Inner CFO will gladly authorize?

Yes.

This workshop is for you.

By the end of one day, you’ve done all the major work to get the website up and running. The total cost is about $250 — which includes domain registration, hosting and the all-day workshop. (more information)

*Susan is also a Computer Press Award-winning how-to book author, as well as an all around good person.

Pasadena Art Night is Friday, March 9 from 6-10 p.m.

Every six months in March and October, Pasadena’s museums and art schools open their doors to the public for free, and free shuttles take people from venue to venue. It’s a pretty neighborly feeling event. It’s fun to ride around in buses with people from all around town and look at art.

http://www.artnightpasadena.org/

Living in Monrovia reports that the Thai restaurant Sweet Garlic is moving to Pasadena. We’ll have to make them feel welcome by visiting them as soon as they open (and as soon as we figure out where they’ll be).

Mexican hot chocolate at Zona Rosa

Whipped cream

Syrup shelf

Zona Rosa Caffe
15 S El Molino Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 793-2334
zonarosacaffe.com

The view from the top of Millikan Library

Update: Here is a link to more information about the Caltech library system (including information about hours and borrowing privileges): Caltech Library Services.

Happy Valentine’s day!

Russian banana fingerlings

We found these Russian banana fingerling potatoes at the Pasadena farmers’ market last Saturday morning, too. They were sweet. I usually toss baby potatoes with olive oil, capers, dill and salt. These didn’t need capers, and the dill was good but not quite right. If I can find these again next week, I want to try them with sage.

la.foodblogging: Lunching at the Athenaeum (by way of 2020 Hindsight)

After reading Cook and Nifty Wench’s post about crosnes, we bought some at the farmers’ market on Saturday.

Crosnes

About crosnes

We sauteed them in butter…

Crosnes sauteing

…and added lots of salt and pepper and oregano from our garden (still following Cook and Nifty Wench’s lead).

Oregano in my garden

They tasted like very good french fries, but they felt crisper and crunchier, like little carrots.

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Update: erin’s kitchen has a post on crosnes, too: Crazy, Crispy Crosnes