Q: what are pie-weights? A: they woam the seas in search of pwunder.

I couldn't tell them much other that it is as important to be lucky as it is to be good. And it is also important to love what you do. ...

you, or at least i, would imagine that a library would stay open regular hours instead of closing at noon the day before it shuts down for a...

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemi...

:-| you saw it here first.

a discussion in the car during a long drive back from new hampshire brought this back to top of mind, where it should really always be. On...

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backward. yvon chouinard [thx josh ] [The Tarahumara] know that every step forward, every co...

From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an infinity of designs, but all ...

instructions on how to buy an inexpensive but decently built and swiftly unlockable smartphone and switch to a low-cost pay-as-you-go cellp...

this time of year, there is nothing more wonderful to eat than late-ripening, fresh-picked, crisp, crunchy apples. the early apples are stil...

it's great when your ethics and your hedonism converge. david shields (in " true grits ," by burkhard bilger )

and hydration is our highest priority .

barismo el bosque, melitta/193F; royal copenhagen blue fluted remix.

Eating is often a knee-jerk reaction: we cook and eat what is most convenient, what is least expensive, what appears to taste good. But deci...

jim leff on why mediocrity is ubiquitous . please read and respond.

The world is concurrent. Things in the world don't share data. Things communicate with messages. Things fail. joe armstrong 

pain d'epices, volare single gibraltar.

when push comes to shove, you eat. in the course of research, i’ve been handed ants, raw lamb brain, cooked lamb brain, fermented shark, and...