I was looking at a Netflix flier on M’s floor this morning and remarked “Funny they say that the plans start at 4.99 per month when the 4.99 plan really isn’t all that useful.” Then I thought, well, the 4.99 plan is 1 movie at a time, 2 per month. How often do I really […]
Gasoline power, electric power, human power
The other thing I was thinking about writing about last night was Who Killed the Electric Car?. It’s a very depressing film in some ways, but very inspiring in others. My two favorite people from the film were Chelsea Sexton and Stan Ovshinsky. Stan is an inventor, some of whose technology was used in the […]
Tan food
It’s apparently been about six months since I posted any bentos, but I’ve either been lazy about lunch or lazy about photographing it, because I only found five that I haven’t posted. And three of them are not at all photogenic and consist almost entirely of food in varying shades of brown. Lunch doesn’t always […]
Mark your calendars – short sleeves!
Today was the first day of short-sleeve morning cycling this year. What a lovely day. And fewer people than usual tried to do stupid things on the road, as well. I’m guessing I’ll need my jacket on the way home, because the sun will be going down. But by next week, with the early DST […]
&*<(*%^#(*^%
Ralph Nader disgusts me. That is all.
101 in 1001 #8: VwaV Chickpea-Hijiki Salad Sandwiches
For probably only the second time ever (the first time was the chickpea broccoli casserole, coincidentally), I’m not really happy with a recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance. The Chickpea-Hijiki Salad Sandwiches (and also, I must say, I am not amused by calling them sammiches — it’s not cute, it’s annoying) are … odd. The […]
Stunning insight by Wikipedia
Wikipedia has this to say, in their article titled Daoism-Taoism romanization issue: The history of transcribing spoken Chinese is lengthy and inconsistent. I just have to say “Y’think, really?”
Cycletopia
I’ve been paying some attention to the news coverage of the Tour of California prologue that I volunteered for on Sunday, and I’ve wound up pretty disappointed. If the Merc is going to put Ann Killion in the main section, then they should ask her to give a wider coverage of the event and not […]
101 in 1001: #2 (pizza) and #60 (tennis)
I knocked off a few more of my goals today, as well as doing my taxes (which were actually pretty easy). #2: Make my own pizza with no help. This wasn’t a huge deal because I’ve made pizza a number of times as half a team, but I wanted to do it by myself. I […]
101 in 1001 #9 & #10: Eating well
As part of becoming aware of what I’m eating, I started keeping a food diary again. Keeping a food diary for me is sort of like keeping a budget. It’s something very picky and obsessive that I do okay with for about a month or two at a time, which is all I really need […]