…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 to gawk at. Cosmological… Read more →
Category: Food and Drink
En Passant
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 for Death In The… Read more →
If I can find chestnuts…
It appears that I failed to get tickets to the Savour Food & Wine show before it sold out. Consequently, it appears I will not be getting to taste: Slow roasted pork ribs with mango salsa, Buttermilk stilton biscuit with roasted duck and mini doughnuts with warm mocha chocolate Shaved Smoked BBQ Brisket on Rosemary Crouton with Grainy Mustard Aioli… Read more →
Not Beautiful, But Made From The Heart
A couple of weeks back when Trish had her birthday, Sarah and I spent an afternoon making her a birthday cake. From scratch. That’s right–no mixes for us. If you’ve ever baked with a 3-year old, you will know that this can be terribly fun, if a bit messy. The cake that we made was pretty damned tasty, although possibly… Read more →
Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
I love garlic. A lot. Like, an unsociable amount. Hell, I stole one of Brust‘s laws of cooking: “If it doesn’t have garlic, it better be dessert!” So I love it every time scientists find another way garlic does amazing things to protect your health. I’d eat it anyway, of course. Here’s this week’s example: from Garlic combats arsenic poisoning… Read more →
Other Impractical Desires
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 to make into the… Read more →
In Passing: Vlado’s
I had no connectivity at the hotel last night, have been working full-on all day today, and am shortly going to head out for my (apparently) annual trip to Vlado’s. Since I start heading back home tomorrow, I’ll also have to pack tonight, so the odds are good that even if the Internet connectivity problem is sorted, I won’t have… Read more →
A miscellany for a Friday
There’s absolutely no theme here, just a bunch of stuff that caught my interest. Why did I not know there was a new Grimjack comic being serialized to the web at ComicMix.com? There’s like 60 pages there already. I hope this is web-to-trade serialization. And look, there’s also a Jon Sable, and what’s this Bar Sinister? The good folks over… Read more →
Just In Time For Christmas
One of the online fora I am active on included a pointer this week to a blog post showing some interesting Laotian rice wine: (You can see an even bigger version of that photo at the author’s Flickr page.) I’m not opposed to liquor with stuff in it generally–but there is some stuff that probably doesn’t belong in my booze.… Read more →
Whether you believe it or not, you should be jealous
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, and now I… Read more →
A Targeted Miscellany
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 about people who… Read more →
A little miscellany
This headline made me laugh. I often wonder if headline writers do this on purpose, as McDonald suggests, or not. I find this face averaging tool fascinating. It’s one thing to pick a few attractive faces, average them, and see that the resulting face is more attractive than the majority of source faces, but it’s a whole other thing to… Read more →
WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.
No, this is not another post about me getting epically drunk. I just thought that title was funny. (It was selected from Rob’s Beer Quotes page.) What it’s actually about is the acquisition of new (to me) and interesting (I hope) beers. If you’ve been paying attention, you know I’m coming to the end of a three week run of… Read more →
Soundtrack for the birthday drinking post
For the full experience of the “A Man Turns 34” post below, you really should have this song playing in the background. It’s the best thing the Fruvous guys ever wrote (although I think the version on the tape was slightly better than this one from Bargainville). Moxy Früvous – The Drinking Song The Drinking Song And the band played… Read more →
A Man Turns 34
Note: I will deny the entire contents of this post if my daughter ever finds it later in her life and confronts me with it. I expect you all to back me up in those denials. So, how did I welcome in 34th birthday? Recall that I was spending it in Australia. Before I get into the details, I want… Read more →
