The latest issue of Cook's Illustrated had a recipe for buttermilk pancakes that sounded so good I just had to try it out. So I made them this morning for my family, and they were light, fluffy, and buttery, just exactly the way good pancakes should be. When the kids weren't stuffing their mouths with the pancakes, they were talking about how good ( Read more... )

I wrote a post for GeekDad that was quoted by Fox News online (search for "Wired"). I wasn't quoted by name, but I was quoted by a major news source. Unfortunately, it was by a major news source that I think is full of crap, and they demonstrated this by quoting me in the same article as Stephen Hawking. So I'm a bit conflicted.

Jesse Helms has died.

So I went to my brother-in-law's bachelor party last night. Went to a bar and a strip club and stayed out drinking till 1:30. Managed to keep up with a whole group of guys a decade younger than me and mostly in lots better shape. This was after driving nine hours from Virginia before the party started. Yeah, I'm exhausted, but I feel a little ( Read more... )

No, really. So, if you keep kosher, are stranded in the African savanna, and can't find potable water, you can always try your hand at milking a giraffe.

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Saw the new Indiana Jones flick. It was very good--not quite as good as #1 and #3, much better than #2 ( Read more... )

Ten years ago tonight I got to the Northshore Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts early, stopped by the KB toy store, and bought a tiny Tigger doll. I walked down the hall to Legal Sea Foods, put my name in at the desk, and stood outside to wait. I had put on some nice dress pants and a button-down shirt, so I looked OK for a Friday night after a long ( Read more... )

HOWARD DEAN: Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang ( Read more... )

I just have to say that it is rather odd to be discussing your medical issues and treatments with your doctor when he is at that moment dressed and made up as Captain Jack Sparrow.

That is all.

Can I just say that having a pinched nerve in my lower back/hip that shoots pain down to my left foot and causes my left calf muscle to lock up and my left foot to feel half-asleep all the time is F**KING PAINFUL!?

Thank you.