Gastrodestination Portland
To the left is a meal I had in Portland, Oregon Sunday. It was not the best meal I had while my wife and I were there on a weekend jaunt. But it was the gayest. Behold the “Gay Bar,” a… Continue Reading
Month: May 2013
Night Owls & Early Birds
Russell Foster has a good piece in the New Scientist about teenagers and sleeping: The biology of human sleep timing, like that of other mammals, changes as we age. This has been shown in many studies. As puberty begins, bedtimes… Continue Reading
Monday Trivia #112
States with the largest and/or most: Vermont, New Mexico, South Dakota, Oregon, Maine, Washington, Arkansas, West Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming. States with the smallest and/or least: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Utah, Nebraska, Illinois, Maryland, California, Minnesota, Rhode Island
Just Kvetching, A Third Time
Our former landlords have informed us that they’re keeping most of the deposit, possibly all of it. On account of our apparent culpability regarding the piping. On the upshot, the house is getting new piping! Yay.
Linky Friday #23
Health: [H1] Dave Schuler’s thoughts on obesity are worth reading. Southerners may not be fatter than the average American so much as they are more honest about their fatness. [H2] Conventional wisdom is that skipping breakfast is a bad dietary… Continue Reading
Standing For Silence
Today marks the annual Congressionally-mandated ritual of disrespecting the Constitution in the name of pleasing the pious.