I miss so much about this place. It not the people, I know a lot of you are still here. It's like moving away from your college town for 10 years and coming back and some people are still here doing the same things, but there's also a Starbucks and a Whole Foods and an Emeril's, and before, it was just the neighborhood diner with scorched coffee ( Read more... )

Movember is officially over. Thank you everyone who donated.

(you can still donate for a few days more: http://mobro.co/PeterKrause )

Final shot yesterday:

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Wow, been almost a year since I've posted here. Life has been a little busy, and I've been taking the shortcut of < 250 words a post on Facebook (not that I post there a lot either ( Read more... )

I'm a cook and a father. So, the movie Ratatouille means a lot to me on quite a few levels. The kids like it, but it's also a really good movie about cooking (and, through cooking, life in general). Many animated movies have said: "An animated kids movie adults will love", but Ratatouille is almost the reverse: "An animated adult movie kids will ( Read more... )

Inspired by scearley who says he's the first in generations not to have military service ( Read more... )

I casually mentioned this on Facebook, but I've been thinking about it all day ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the most wonderful day in our political system -- the last day of campaigning. After tomorrow, all the signs and calls and polls stop...for about another 15 months ( Read more... )

So, I can understand some of this on a mathematical sense -- the ratio of teeth between gears has to be integer ratios like 3:2. Vertices have to match the center of an edge with the polygons. Then, the guy throws in fish and jellyfish and trees...all of wood. This is amazing. You start to understand how people made clockwork automata actually ( Read more... )

An American's attempt at poutine ( Read more... )