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Learning to rest

It’s amazing how difficult it can be to rest, even when you’ve earned it: like getting to the end of the final chapter of a monstrous (aka PhD) thesis. The final chapter still leaves a conclusion, of course, but 70,000 words down the line (not including footnotes, that delightful space for showing off everything I [...]

Molecular something (surely?)

Word is, that in addition to deep-fried coke, the ‘trendy foods’ at the 2008 California State Fair will include deep-fried cookie dough (yawn) and deep-fried latte (yawn turns to disbelief and, if you’re Ferran Adria, deep green envy). I vote for deep-fried second-hand smoke. Transfat free, of course. Mark my words, some day they’ll figure [...]

An inventory

An inventory

of the stories that there has been no time to tell… First, I contemplated ingesting some brainy spices (I was smocked enough to forego the salmon option): Then, on an innocent Sunday afternoon shopping expedition, my car died a temporary death and had to be taken away by someone who claimed I was the only [...]

More on punctuation

As someone who has always found it amusing to see the weekly specials outside my local Checkers or Pick’n Pay boldly advertised as “Baker’s Tennis Biscuits” or “Stork Margarine” because the irony of the ironic punctuation is (“literally”) lost, I enjoyed a recent New York Sun article on the same. It seems, according to Jon [...]

Too much salt will send you to jail

‘A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.’ Read all about it here.

Telling Lies

It’s dawned on me that one of the fundamental tropes of human communication is trying to convince your interlocutor that you’re not telling lies. Getting dressed in a public changing room this morning, I happened to overhear (not by choice) a conversation between two women that involved one of them trying to convince the other [...]

Americans are brilliant

Americans are brilliant

Who else could have figured out how to deep-fry Pepsi: Even more brilliant is the fact that, as per new HEALTH regulations, all these deep-fried wonders are now trans-fat free. In other words, go ahead, have another three…

Getting the Punctuation Right

Getting the Punctuation Right

Courtesy (in amended form) of Achewood:

Hef the Hefty

So the girls of the Playboy mansions are back on television and, incredibly, they are engaging in events that I haven’t yet seen, despite having seen the thing close on (sssh) twenty times. This time they were celebrating Hef’s (x) birthday, and as “Hef” likes to do every year, there was a Casablanca extravaganza in [...]

Stocktake

Stocktake

So stuff just happens and suddenly it’s another month, or day, or year, and you’ve forgotten to remember some of the nice things in between. Like a well executed Kung Pao chicken, or, in Pei Mei’s phrasing, Chicken with Gongbao sauce. Pei Mei is my favourite Taiwanese kitchen companion at the moment, not only because [...]

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