After feasting on delicious Smitten ice cream and stopping in to Miette on a recommendation of several chefs (no small recommendation, but we have yet to try our yield) across the street, and before stopping in to Fatted Calf Charcuterie (which we just happened to park right outside -- and, well, charcuterie! How could we not stop in?), I dragged ( Read more... )

Today, we drove to San Francisco, met up with some folks from Grubly and tried Smitten ice cream from their brand new store (? stand? kiosk?) in Hayes Valley where they make ice cream to order using liquid nitrogen and pretty spiffy machinery of their own design.


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This evening, my wife and I watched an episode of Eli Stone (a show we both greatly enjoy) called "Flight Path" and I was mostly very happy to see something very rare for American television: An atheist character ( Read more... )

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/DD5Q101D24.DTL

(They quoted part of my comment on this story in a follow-up article).

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Hilarious ... and good advice too!

Another of my compadres, one Scott Sigler (soon to be the next Stephen King), has just today launched his first major hardcover novel, "INFECTED". Ooh. It looks so shiny. Plus, check out this promo video! Wow!

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I have never seen a video trailer for a book that rivals movie trailers. Holy carp ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's the big day when my friend Seth Harwood's outstanding crime noir novel "Jack Wakes Up" comes out in print, and tomorrow's the day he's hoping to make a crater on Amazon's charts. I will be with Seth and a bunch of others in a coffee shop in Berzerkeley tomorrow morning for brunch and book buying (via the free wireless) and watching Jack ( Read more... )

Firefox is straining from the weight of all the tabs I have chronically open, and a lot of them are food-related, so here's my round-up of all the interesting food-related stuff I've been collecting of late.

Restaurants I (really) want to visit:

• A post on the BITS AND BITES blog on 7x7.com starts off with a short paragraph totally irrelevant to the ( Read more... )

Mur's new podcast audio book, "Playing for Keeps" is really great, especially as read by Mur herself! It is also available right now for purchase in print in softcover and hardcover editions.

Press Release: http://www.prlog.org/10045735-superheroes

So, the other day someone posted this to a mailing list I am on. video of people jumping off mountains and gliding mere feet from cliff-sides. Yikes! Scary and impressive and truly insane.

mcl mentioned one of the strangest stories I've seen in a long time at work. 'World's largest elk' to be built in Sweden. Make sure you watch the video for the ( Read more... )