Sneaky Pete wants you to buy this book. Six months ago, I noted Coca-Cola was going to be introducing a mid-calorie cola, which I referred to as a product for “low-carb dieters who have been marooned on the distant asteroid where Diet Coke is unavailable.” After some minor success during the marketing blitz of its […]
Since I haven’t done a meme in a while, here is one from Lisa What is your favorite beverage? Root beer. There is an incredible root beer at the local XXX. Chai iced tea would be my second choice. Name 3 things that are on your computer desk at home or work. Bill, Mary, Enrico.
Tuesday’s rice pudding recipe reminded me of some of the kitchen blunders I’ve made. Generally these fall into three buckets: I got lazy and took a shortcut, forgot a key ingredient, or there were “wardrobe malfunctions.” The worst one this year was when I was making the kids’ pizza and olive oil dripped onto the
What is the game of “Chicken?” In the movies, two hooligans with something to prove settle their differences by racing their cars towards each other. The first one to turn away, averting certain collision, is the “chicken” and loses face among his cohorts. The other player, referred to as the “winner,” gets bragging rights and
We took the kids to the Museum of Flight Monday. While we were in line, I fished through my wallet trying to find my membership card. I found it — after we reached the front of the line, my wife put down the youngest, dug out her purse, and flashed the card. This is a
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Quite a long time ago, I mused about breakfast cereals. Being a fickle customer, I’ve since moved onto Kashi‘s GoLean Crunch. It’s quite tasty, and I’ve enjoyed it for breakfast for the last several months. I’ve been noticing Kashi stuff popping up in a lot of places, leading me to believe it’s not run by
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I set up awstats to enable displaying the title of a page next to the hit count. This is much easier than trying to remember /a/000148.shtml is the thing I wrote about dropping coins off buildings. I noticed that my “lists” category page gets a lot of activity despite no update in nearly six months.
(for maximum humor value, mouse-over the dashed lines.)Long ago, before the mists of the dot com era wafted down upon the masses, I worked at a company that made bananas. I traveled to a customer site with Tim, the company’s top salesman to observe his crafitness. After we met with the Zookeeper and Primate Custodian,