Haven't posted in quite a while, but here's a rant ( Read more... )

Yes, this trick has roots back to the dawn of math, but this version is particularly well done. You'll probably get it eventually, but it had me amazed for a good five minutes. Amazement in exchange for a mouse click.... worth the click ( Read more... )

The Prius is a curious car. Not so much as a car, necessarily, but as a focal point for discussion and an ever growing OCD. "How's the Prius doing?" I'm asked at least twice a day, and of course I've been thinking about it, so I have a longer-than-one-sentence reply. It's a gadget, no doubt, but Toyota has sold too many of them for it to really be ( Read more... )

6 cups red wine (preferably box wine, you are mulling it after all)
2 cups cranberry juice or apple cider
2/3 cup triple sec
1 1/2 tablespoons mulling spices (cloves, orange peel, cinnamon)

Heat to a low simmer, but not boiling, for 1 hour. Serves 8.

Mounted on a Hummer, you say?

"I was killing in my sleep again."
"With an axe this time."
"It was a stranger."
"The details are a little fuzzy now."
"Was it a stranger?"

My left ear has been plugged up for the past two weeks, from allergies, as it turns out. I went to the doctor yesterday to get it looked at, and since I haven't gone anywhere except the health center for the past 6 years, they wanted to do a complete medical history ( Read more... )

The Forester isn't totaled; the repair estimate came in at $3800, but the blue book value on it is still up around $6500. Now I get to decide whether to try selling it after it's fixed, or simply run it into the ground...

Best article on food, foodways, the government, and the media E-V-E-R.

"I would submit that the ideology of nutritionism deserves as much of the blame as the carbohydrates themselves do - that and human nature. By framing dietary advice in terms of good and bad nutrients, and by burying the recommendation that we should eat less of any particular ( Read more... )

A woman fell asleep while driving on my street this morning and took out 4 cars, including mine. Waiting to see what the damage estimate comes back as; it looks like the floor of the trunk is buckled across the midline of the car, so I suspect it's totaled.