December 2011
13 posts
Our hospital Christmas tree
Santa has a surprise for you in his sack
Very early birthday gift from my wonderful wife
olive oil secrets
Extra-virgin olive oil is a ubiquitous ingredient in Italian recipes, religious rituals and beauty products. But many of the bottles labeled “extra-virgin olive oil” on supermarket shelves have been adulterated and shouldn’t be classified as extra-virgin, says New Yorker contributor Tom Mueller. via npr.org Olive oil is one of the real staples of our cooking, so very...
my batman
Back in the early summer of 1989 I happened upon my first Batman comic, issue #602 of Detective Comics, in a small grocery store in Hutchinson, Kansas. As a result my Batman became and will always be the Grant/Breyfogle Batman. The dynamism of the artwork and the depth of the writing solidified the idea of Batman into a living breathing character. So reading that Norm Breyfogle will be returning...
sleep hack
Polyphasic Sleep Cycles Trick Your Body into Needing Less Sleep http://lifehacker.com/5866905/polyphasic-sleep-cycles-trick-your-body-into-needing-less-sleepI tried something similar to this a few years back. I’d come gone from work and go straight to bed for a few hours, wake up, then back to sleep. —- Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPhone app. Available for free in the App...
The horror!
The Five Best Things Dr Nemesis Says In X-Club #1...
Anyway, the book takes a bunch of X-Men scientists and gets them to do cool things. But none is quite as cool as Dr Nemesis. So I thought we should celebrate the character under Si Spurrier’s care, and highlight the five best things he said in the comic in question. via bleedingcool.com Haven’t been interested enough in any X-Men comics to read more than an issue or two in years (too...
Pulp Fiction In Chronological Order
via bleedingcool.com Haven’t watched this yet, but seems to be an interesting exercise.
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Note to self: Dinner at a new Olive Garden the day after they open is a bad idea (especially with a crazy loud teenager at the next table)
Mid-evening Nap
Abuse Your Noodle
Heard an interesting report on NPR this morning about how instant ramen cups lead to a lot of horrible burns by tipping over easily, especially with children. The part I really wanted to note down for future writing reference was the reason ramen burns are so much worse than other soup or hot liquid burns. Apparently the noodles, which hold in the heat, stick to the skin, intensifying the burn....
Hello Future World
Back when I was single, maintaining a self hosted blog as my digital hub was easy. Now I have a life though and less time to fiddle with updates and plugins. So a new digital hub, hosted on posterous.com with bits being piped to anywhere I want and no worrying about the back end. If you want to see it directly, it’s at cloudmachine.us. As with the old setup though, anything I post should...