Yes, it’s time again for an original-content free collection of pointers to things that amuse, interest, or frighten me.
I believe I have to mention the opening of Knol, Google’s attempt to take on Wikipedia with “authoritative articles” that have specific owners, rather than the anonymous wisdom of crowds. I admit, I have no idea how [...]
It’s no Guinness float1, but here’s something I’ve had on the old hard disk for quite a few years 2 that’s always worked out well for me. Those monks are geniuses.
Charcoal braised beef with Chimay Blue
Serves: 4 persons
Preparation: 0 h 20 min
Cooking: 2 h 15 min
Type: Main dish
Cuisine: Belgium
INGREDIENTS
800 gr (1.75 lb.) of braising [...]
And, time to close a few more tabs…
It’s lovely that the Internet can bring me an interactive beer and food matching guide. Sadly, it uses a different algorithm than I do–resulting in far more matches with “see through” beer than my scheme would generate.
Speaking of beer, I love the idea of beer haiku. My favourite [...]
And once again, we have my quick opinions on a variety of things I’ve run into in the last little while.
I am fascinated with the mystery of what WalMart might be doing in their giant, mysterious data center. I’m guess that it might be related to “lowering prices every day”, but doing so by means [...]
Due to important fund-raising activities and all-you-can-drink craft beer, there will be no blogging today.
(Actually, I’m sick and driving, so there won’t be that much drinking, but I will still put in an appearance, raise the flag, and put some money towards a good cause.)
…to close a bunch of tabs before Firefox memory issues eat my computer.
Let us begin with my praise of BibliOdyssey. They pulled me in earlier this month with the scans from an antique geomancy almanac, and I’ve been exploring their archives since then. Wow, is there a lot of stuff in there for a bibliophile [...]
I’ve got a three-year-old arriving in half an hour, and I’ve got a remote controlled car that I’ve just assembled, so I don’t have a lot of time for blogging today. Let’s see how many of my 20 or so “quickies” I can get through, in passing, before she gets home…
Recent experiments with Hemmingway’s recipe [...]
Here are a few other things, of no practical value, that I’d love to get:
The Peggy programmable light board kit. I’d like to buy a few of these–one to put in the office in Boston to mock the Mooninite thing from last year, one to put in my office for alternative visualization experiments, and one [...]
You know what I want, that is ridiculously expensive, and that I can in no way practically justify, but which I still have a serious hankering for?
A sword cane.
At least twice a week for the last couple of months, I’ve spent some time looking at the photos at the Burger Knives sword cane pages–especially the [...]
Why? Why should you be jealous?
Not because I just spent 9PM-midnight on the phone in conference calls with Australia for work. I am jealous of you all because you didn’t have to do that, and don’t have to do it every Thursday.
No, you should be jealous of me because I have just finished these calls, [...]
A Sunday link list, of things that made me think of specific people.
For my lovely wife, to share with her radical feminist associates, is the story of the most famous pirate of all time. Especially the bits about the pirate laws governing female prisoners. And the end of the story.
Also for her yet another story [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post that I had been delighted to find a whole bunch of Santayana stuff at archive.org, including a poetry collection I was unfamiliar with.
Well, while in Boston, I’ve been using stolen moments to work my way through that collection. I haven’t made much headway with the initial sections–there’s a two-part [...]
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