Ya know what´s really tasty? Skyr. I bought it initially cause I was curious, but also because its the only foodstuff in Iceland that costs less than $20.00 a serving. (Its stupidly cheap, in fact, markedly contrasted to everything else on this island), but now I´m totally hooked. I´ve had three Skyr-only lunches so far--its filling and supposedly ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of any mythical incantations or cheap techno-tricks to make a faltering digicam battery last just a few snaps longer?

I brought a film camera as well, but I now realize that I only own 100 and 200 speed film, which prolly won´t develop for jack in the lower Northern light.

In Denmark, it rains ( Read more... )

I bought Anna an 1850's map of Europe (pre-Italian and German unification...lots of kingdoms and duchies and extra colors you're not quite used to seeing on maps of Europe...it makes for a very striking wall piece, imho) as a gift for Advent ( Read more... )

I miss Florida place names. Ichetucknee Withlacoochee Chattahoochee Okeechobee, Tallahassee, Ocoee ( Read more... )

Paraphrasing the Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District:

• ID is overtly religious in both intent and implication.
  
• A 9th grader in the Dover Area School District can be reasonably expected to understand the social and cultural context of what ID stands for, and can be reasonably expected to interpret its endorsement by the Dover School Board as ( Read more... )

I never much liked combat videogames, but one, perhaps the only one, that I have a distant fondness for was a "Mortal Kombat" type fighter...it had the same baisc premise as all the others like it, only its selling point was, rather pitting ninja-vs-ninja or whathaveyou, it had dinosaurs fighting gorillas. Very primal, all of it. (I think "Primal" ( Read more... )

I try my best to avoid news commentary, esp that which stems from the Financial Pages, but ( Read more... )

So Anna and I just bought tickets for a January trip to Denmark and Iceland. We can't do anything that even remotely resembles affording this, so it all goes on the ol' credit cards (an unfortunate bit of backsliding, considering that I've enjoyed less than three months since finally paying them off...I feel kindof bad for myself, but hey, screw ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure out a way to effectively use Google Bombing as a verb...specifically, how to arrange the direct object and supporting prepositions so that all the important information is included, without sounding cumbersome.

(For those non-familiar with the term, wikipedia, as always, has you covered ( Read more... )