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To reduce clutter, we’ve been selling a few old items on eBay recently. To perk up the auction listings, I’ve engaged in some minor product photography. Here are … Continue reading »

This past Saturday, we went to Blossom again, using our last two upgrades where we traded in lawn tickets for pavillion seats. Blossom was relatively empty that evening: it … Continue reading »

This is derived from AllRecipes.com’s Fig and Lemon Chicken, which used dried figs and chicken thighs, so we have to do things with the greater amount of liquid from fresh … Continue reading »

We picked up Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild after seeing it in one of the Alaska bookstores, in the large “local interest” section. I had actually heard of the … Continue reading »

Here’s a table of (apparently all) Nikon lens serial numbers. I found it when trying to identify old lenses to sell on EBay. I don’t know ho w … Continue reading »

I read it a couple of weeks ago, shortly after finishing The Dark Tower. It was an interesting contrast, if only because both Potter and The Dark Tower are … Continue reading »

In New York, it’s relatively hard to pick up tickets for Yankee games. In Cleveland, I stopped by the team store at Jacobs Field the week before Tuesday’s game … Continue reading »

Unlike most Stephen King fans, my road to the Dark Tower only began a couple of months ago, when I packed The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three into … Continue reading »

Here’s a neat Google Maps hack that lets you figure out the length of route, given a set of waypoints. Finally, I know (about a year after when it may have … Continue reading »

I finally made bread that wasn’t dense. Previous attempts have tended to result in dense (though sufficiently tasty) bread because I screwed up something in either the kneading or … Continue reading »