More soon (like, before the decade's over), but if anyone's fainting with curiousity or boredom you can check out some of the bits and pieces of my world at flickr ( Read more... )

From the shallow end of the pool:

No commentary on the Olympics from me, except to say that I love 'em. For the most part. Especially the swimming and equestrian and fencing. More fencing coverage, please! Yeah, as if NBC's going to let that happen...

However, reruns of any event in which The Thorpedo participates would be most welcome. I'm ( Read more... )

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Who comes up with paint chip names, anyway? Sherwin Williams has a paint called "Spalding Gray." I kid you not. Evidence below the cut. Depressing ( Read more... )

Last week zoe_trope made Savannah Chocolate Chewies. Over a delightful meal at The Tao of Tea, Zoe, dampscribbler and I tried to deconstruct the process. However, talk is cheap, so some of us vowed to give the recipe a whirl in our own science labs kitchens ( Read more... )

During my teenage years, I enjoyed a rather steamy albeit one-sided and unrequited affair with Porsches. As the years have passed, things have cooled off between us, due in part to a lack of a winning lottery ticket and my decision to pursue liberal arts instead of engineering. However, the affection still lingers ( Read more... )

For the last few months I've been parking my car in what's left of the free parking in the Pearl then walking to Stumptown downtown. My route usually goes through Chinatown, which seems to have the most entertaining conversations per block than other areas.

( Recent tidbits, plus bonus cat pictures! )

Last week some friends and I went to San Juan Island for six days. Well, five, actually, because we went to Vancouver Island for one night. But who (besides me) is counting ( Read more... )

unless I was in Europe ( Read more... )

When the Clintons visited the White House last week for their picture show, Bill Clinton said:
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