Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Yesterday my wife and I drove some distance to visit a specialty supply store. It’s the kind of place which I used to visit in Manhattan in the 1960s, but what with the way the world is now we visit them on the Internet or as in this case in the depressed atmosphere of an [...]
Having gotten back into making popovers has lead to remembering there is a variant that even easier; where you make them in a cast iron frying pan or dutch oven. It’s also pretty amazing as it comes out of the oven. Same recipe as popovers. We always called these David Eyre’s Pancakes [...]
Saturday, September 22, 2007
This article is totally weird. To begin: “scheduled pipeline maintenance in Colorado reduced the system’s capacity to export out of the Rocky Mountain region”. So then what happened? “gas supplier Colorado Interstate Gas dropped the price” I have no idea why they did that. And there were buyers, in particular the city owned utility in [...]
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Here’s an interesting game: find a book on Amazon who’s “also viewed” relatives are particularly diverse and distinctive from the first book. In this example a book on the Challenger disaster (i.e. it looks into the question was the Nasa culture embracing increasing risk over time) that is paired with a book on [...]
I find this extremely obnoxious. Link-in is sending marketing to it’s customers and using my name in the subject lines. Obviously they are doing this to increase the chance people will read, rather than just discard the junk mail. Social network hosts should be very careful about this kind of thing. [...]
This is amusing. I have here an email from Amazon dated March 21st, 2006 stating that they have shipped my new windshield wipers. Further down it says that the estimated delivery date is April 26th. Over a month! Too late for April showers. I assume this means that Jeff Bezos [...]
When I was a kid there was a TV show where three contestents would occationally be given an ethically questionable goal: appear in the local newspaper before the week was out. This caused me no end of puzzlement since they were required to appear in the paper legitimately. That seemed [...]
Another one for my pile of stories about pricing games.
I read this posting about Amazon’s price drop policy and squirrel’d it away in del.icio.us for the next time I bought something pricy at Amazon.
My wife bought a camera a bit back and so from time to time I’ve been checking to see if the [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
I’d not seen this before.
JWZ’s essay on RSI, or typing injury. “… it terrified me. … my career being over”
I have one of my own written years and years ago. “… a friend who lost the ability to pick up a piece of paper …”
And I see that Bill Clementson recently joined this miserable [...]
Saturday, February 5, 2005
John McPhee asks this question of his subject in the midst of an article in the New Yorker.
“How long do you usually know what’s going to happen?”
Great question.
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