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attack of the problematic tomatoes
Forgive me, LJ; it has been 6 months since my last confession ( Read more... ) -
Oooo La La La La La La La Llama Man!
Do you have any idea how thrilled I am right now? Well, let me tell you ( Read more... ) -
looking for a cat name
Fates willing, Emily and I will be adopting a kitten tomorrow. That means we need a name for the cat ( Read more... ) -
I had a dream
I had dream this morning that I was hanging out with a woman named Elena Kagan. I realized upon waking where the name had come from, but in the dream she was not a candidate for the Supreme Court, though was briefly the focus of national media attention ( Read more... ) -
A new scale for rating beer
I've been brewing a bunch lately (a honey ale and a British-style "Real Ale"), which means I've been prepping lots of bottles to put beer in. You can buy clean new bottles, but with enough foresight its cheaper just to wash and re-use commercial bottles of the right sort. But you don't want your beer in something with a Sam Adams or a Guinness ( Read more... ) -
Mixed message tea
My tea speaks to me; but lately, the messages have been mixed ( Read more... ) -
visiting Seattle and environs
Hey all you Seattle-ites
I'll be in town visiting skarlettvixen next week (Wed Feb 10-Wed Feb 17). We'll be out and about, and I'd love to see you.
Tentative plans include:
Wed 2/10: Celia's concert, Soul Food Books in Redmond
Thur 2/11: The Grind @ The Wet Spot, until late
Fri 2/12: Bone Poets Orchestra concert, also at Soul Food ( Read more... ) -
how much are we eating, and how much is sugar?
Mssr. Pollan caught people's attention on The Daily Show the other day, stating that Americans get 20% of our calories from HFCS, and that we eat 240 lbs of sugars every year, and I can't make his math add up. USDA says (see esp. tables 50-53) that we eat a total of about 140 lbs of sugar every year, something like a third of which is HFCS -- about ( Read more... ) -
pop quiz: name the year
I ran across this while working on a reference question today. Name the date! Ted Kennedy's no long with us, but much of the rest of it looks like 2009. It's not.
The rising cost and unsatisfactory state of medical care has finally got just about everyone impatient for a change. During the past decade, medical fees in the U.S. rose twice as fast ( Read more... )