There are a variety of milk-based products available in the store. Just sticking to cow’s milk for the moment, here’s the periodic table of viscous milk products, ordered by decreasing fat content: Butter – 81% milk fat. A stick of butter (8 tablespoons) has 97.2 grams of fat (880 calories!), which breaks down into 62% […]
After umpteen years bumping into each other and generally loathing our kitchen, we finally did something about it. The primary design goal was to make the room easier for two people to cook in by replacing the concave, n-faced polyhedron with a “work triangle.” Specific problems we’re addressing: Because the dishwasher is wedged in the
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In anticipation of our kitchen being demolished for a three-week remodeling project, we’ve done some rearrangement of the furniture with an air for practicality. First, the refrigerator has been relocated to the living room, eliminating that long trek for beer between football plays. Instead of having to hunt for items behind the pantry doors, we’re
Bellevue is blacked out. Behold! The Bellevue Blackout challenge is to find all of the geocaches within the city limits. Unlike the Delorme or Thomas Guide challenges, where one finds a cache in a region defined by each page of the respective road atlas (and does a lot of driving in the process), this one
Last week was my first time visiting Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex’s better half. When I had the opportunity to be outside (80°F and sunny, in April!), I wandered around downtown, letting the numerous virtual geocaches guide my travels. (All photos, except the USPS one, are mine. Click to embiggen.) This mural (a block over), is typical
Whew! 80.62 miles driven, 8 1/2 hours geocaching with JustMike & hydnsek, 43 puzzle caches* in the series, plus a couple of others along the way. *Puzzle caches aren’t at their listed locations (hence the puzzle), so no scuba diving of Lake Washington was necessary. The actual distribution of caches looked more like this: Since
I don’t watch much television , but when I do, it’s because my Tivo’s found something cool. Like: last night’s introduction to RFIDs by Dr. Chris Diorio, chairman and CEO of Impinj[5]. His presentation is available online[1], so I will just summarize some of the things I learned. Who wants them? Business! Among the benefits:
Mister Peabody, set the Wayback Machine to three years ago, pick a spot during a really long product release cycle. Partly out of boredom, but mostly to mess with development manager at the time, I had asked one of the developers to swap out the splash screen. The product logo was thus modified: Official Battle-ready!
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