I found something interesting on BoingBoing today. I don’t usually repost stuff that I see elsewhere, but this one intrigued me. A German site bought 100 different packaged food products, photographed the image of the food on the packaging, and compared it to the actual food (the linked site isn’t the original, but it’s easier […]
Test ride: sequential comparison
Today I decided that I wanted to ride Meg (the Terry Madeleine) and Maia (my LeMond Alpe d’Huez) right in sequence to do a closer comparison, because after a few more (utilitarian) rides on Meg, I wondered if maybe I was too stretched out actually. The utilitarian rides were interesting because they were rides I […]
Preach it, but not on the blog
I read a lot of food blogs, and my choices of what to read sometimes seem eclectic even to me. I like blogs with pictures and recipes. All pics and no recipes means you get a sure drop from my list, and no pictures is a bit boring and makes it hard to visualize the […]
Glorious bike day
Today is a glorious bike day for two reasons. One, it’s the first time I’ve been on a bike in a week and a half, due to my flu. I’m still coughing, but I’m feeling pretty decent otherwise, so I decided that I was ready. I managed to ride two miles at a decent clip […]
E-bills
For a long time I was reluctant to switch my bills and statements to electronic, because I like to get the bills in the mail and have a physical record of them, and leave them sitting until I pay them so I don’t forget. But I got really tired of all the junk they send […]
Unusually for an X, he was also a Y
While re-reading The Right Attitude to Rain, I came across several quotations I thought about memorializing in my Facebook profile, including this one: How many people in the United States believed that they had been abducted by aliens? It was a depressingly large number. And the aliens always gave them back! Perhaps they were abducting […]
Finally, some decent news on wiretapping
House Democrats have some vertebrae left in their spine, at least, having refused to rubber-stamp telecom immunity. Good for them, even if the whole issue of warrantless wiretapping in general is still a mess. If you’re less lazy than me, you could write to your House rep congratulating or reproving them, but I’m going to […]
Cough medicine
I don’t remember if my parents ever gave me cough medicine as a kid (they probably did) and it’s been a while since I was sick enough to need it, but let me tell you, I had no idea dextromethorphan was such a freakin’ miracle drug. I slept (if a bit restlessly) all through last […]
Tan food II: Bento Catchup
The promised post with tan food bentos! Very exciting, I know. Soup bowl: Gravy Main bowl: Mashed potatoes Large bowl: Chickpea cutlet Small bowl: Chocolate chip cookie This is probably the most tan bento. The chickpea cutlets are from Veganomicon. They’re made with chickpeas, wheat gluten flour, and some tasty seasoning. The lemon zest makes […]
Watch that bill
In the year or so that I’ve had service with Comcast, they’ve screwed up my billing at least three different times. I’m getting pretty frustrated at this point. I thought it was pretty basic to set someone up on a plan and then let it go for a few months, but evidently not. The first […]