Holed up on this chilly, rainy day, Lizz and I finally got around to some seriously overdue spring cleaning. I went through the pile of books we’ve been meaning to ditch. The ones worth less than the effort to sell online (by the way, the new Barnes & Noble service where they buy […]
As you may know a few years ago I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Cancer is a scary thing, but as cancers go, most types of thyroid cancer are relatively easy to treat. I had my thyroid gland removed, went an a challenging diet (it’s remarkably difficult to avoid eating iodine), drank a mildly […]
I’ve been thinking about “guilty pleasures” lately. Not sure what sparked it. I Googled the phrase and came up with these MSNBC articles which are amusing in that Reader’s Digest humor sort of way. My favorite guilty pleasure from an MSNBC reader:
Milli Vanilli
I love those songs! And no matter who actually sang […]
My cousin is the first of the five cousins on my Mom’s side of the family to get hitched and pregnant. A recent ultrasound caught the baby making a plea for the world s/he is about to join. S/he’ll fit right in.
I am very open-minded on animal rights and animal welfare issues. The way we treat animals (who have the capacity to suffer) for our human ends deserves serious scrutiny and debate. For over a year I chose a vegetarian diet in large part because I abhor the way animals are often treated to […]
The last few days I tried an experiment: auto-posting links from my del.icio.us account (a web-based social bookmarking service) directly to this blog nightly. I often bookmark cool, interesting things with insightful comments on del.icio.us, and since few people actually use del.icio.us, I wanted people who read my blog could see what was happening […]
By posting her planned menu, Laura inspired me to post my own Thanksgiving menu. Sat and Yulia joined Lizz and me for a southern themed turkey day in our NYC apartment. The menu:
Shallow-fried, breaded turkey cutlets (riff on this fried chicken recipe), and a pan gravy
Traditional mashed potatoes
Cranberry dipping sauce
Greens […]
We move tomorrow from Newel St. in Greenpoint and one question is bothering me. The street signs and most of the folk-signage (labeled garbage cans and the like) on Newel St. spell Newel just like that, with one l. However, in many online databases and many maps it is spelled “Newell” with two […]
New York, like Michigan, has a bottle recycling law. New York’s bottle deposit is 5¢, while Michigan’s is 10¢. I don’t know anyone in Michigan who doesn’t save her bottles and return them for the deposit. So far, in New York, I haven’t found anyone who does return the bottles. Many […]
The perpetual move goes on. This time, I’m moving all my web sites from my rented server to my new TextDrive hosting for life account. Having full control over a server is nice, but since I’m using mostly out-of-the-box software, and since I do enough systems administration as a day job, and since […]
