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mustard, mostly
One of the things I found interesting in Gabe Zichermann's Mastering Gamification talk was his discussion of Richard Bartle's player types. His audience for this talk is a bunch of Google engineers, and to them he says:
You here in this room are not normal, you are way more achievement-oriented than the average population. If I gave you an ( Read more... ) -
someone's leftover beans and rice
(tl;dr - I had a crappy morning but I'm okay.)
This morning on my way to work I was party to a moving vehicle collision. It was at N Vancouver & Broadway, where some guy decided to turn right from the center lane, without signaling, in a intersection marked "No Turns." I slammed at speed in to his passenger side.
Thank you to Carol, Ray, Eryn, ( Read more... ) -
chicken satay (getting started with alfajor)
These are some pretty rough notes on some coding stuff I need to post somewhere.
( Exploring the alfajor testing tool. ) -
gluten-free dairy-free grilled cheese
Armchair economist thought of the day:
We're Good People if we shift our spending habits to use less resources (Lower Your Carbon Footprint), right? And we're Very Good People if we do this even when it means spending a little more money to do so, by buying the more expensive item that used less fuel to get here, or buying the more expensive ( Read more... ) -
oatmeal with hemp milk and rasins
Changing dietary restrictions has got me really curious about where to go to find new recipes. I've spent a lot of time over the past few days looking at various recipe catalogue sites. I'm focusing more on public recipe repositories, less on individual chefs. I thought I'd share some of my impressions:
Best for answering "What do I want to ( Read more... ) -
pork and potato
When it comes to getting out of bed in the morning, the "alarm clock" tactic is pretty well understood, and can be extended upon by increasing volume, cleverness, or number of alarms. But what tactics do you have for getting to bed? So far I've got Leechblock. Which is helpful. But I'm not asleep right now. So what else works for you? -
roasted tomato on polenta
The leadership training program I'm in is all about practicing listening and sharing. One thing that means is that I have a lot of time built in to my schedule over the next few months for talking to people on the phone. So if you're one of those people who means to keep in touch but you never quite get around to it, or otherwise think "Hey, I ( Read more... ) -
osha spicy dice (Hey SF peeps!)
Hey, class completes at 6pm Sunday, then I have about sixteen hours in this city of San Francisco before I need to get to the OAK airport. Who of you do I get to see in that time?
Or if not who, what should I make a point of seeing on a Sunday evening? -
lentil nut loaf
Here are some quotable bits from No More Throw-Away People, the book by "the Time Bank guy" Edgar S. Cahn:
On what work is rewarded by the market:
If we accept the market definition of work, there are a few minor omissions worth noting. Work does not include: raising children, taking care of one's elder parents, keeping one's family functioning, ( Read more... ) -
tempeh and green bean stir-fry
A few weeks ago now I finished reading Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, and there are some things from that I wanted to write down before moving on to No More Throw-Away People.
As you know, I haven't studied much economics, but Hazlitt's work is categorized as being from the classical school of thought, very Adam Smith Wealth of Nations ( Read more... )