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I baked some pogácsa today. You can read more about my story of this pastry in my post about it.
[Here’s yet another notable installment culled from Basketball Digest’s long-running series, “The Game I’ll Never Forget.” This specific remembrance, published in the Digest’s Summer 1997 issue, comes from the all-time great center...
The packaging of a ergonomic, “vertical” mouse I bought from Newegg was inadequate. The instructions are inscrutable.
The Golden Gate Bridge fireworks were of interest to Mrs Mai Tai, but the high threat of fog made elaborate plans seem risky, so we took a sort of safe route by heading to Emeryville to have some drinks at Trader Vic’s before heading to...
Did you know that Colombia were supposed to host the 1986 World Cup? Route None told the story of how that changed to Mexico and all the corruption and controversial surrounding the change from both sides. The post Route None on the...
The fifth grandmother When I was little, I knew that everyone has two grandmothers. I had two: one lived in the same town as my famil,y and one lived in the capital. As I grew older, things got more complicated. It turned out that I had...
Jonathan Abrams reports for the NY Times (archived) about a worthy attempt at preservation: While relaxing a couple of years ago, Prof. Joshua Caffery found himself in the mood to unwind with some old-time Cajun music. He asked Amazon’s...
Street scene, London Snatched in true Cartier-Bresson style. And in B&W too. Quotes of the Day The American republic celebrated its so-called 250th birthday on Saturday. Here are two excerpts from speeches marking the occasion. First,...
it is presently a cool 84 degrees (F) out according to my laptop as i type this in a well air-conditioned room. don't be mistaken, though, your beloved princess of hating the heat (me) spent a lot of time outdoors despite, and in spite...
Another first Sunday means another session of Comic Book Club. Via I won’t always have a Haul post to accompany Comic Book Club, but this past Wednesday, there was a comic that I considered buying but decided against – the first issue of...
Click here for tickets Liverpool St Station Shall we take a tour around the East End in the early eighties in the company of David Johnson, courtesy of his wonderful Kodachrome images? “My interest in London’s history goes back to the...
Not sure how I found out about Osaka Madras Curry but I had it bookmarked to tryApparently this is owned by actor, Kitamura KazukiThis shop is teeny, only 8 seatsThe character in the turban resembles the actor Buy your ticket...EXCEPT it...
Independence Day weekend is always a good time to watch a patriotic film of any kind, and so I decided to watch IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY (2004), in which Tom Selleck stars as General Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower.I bought this film in a sale...
Plus how text based visuals make life harder for the vision impaired This week: Putting money on the table to develop a daily writing habit Text based visuals and the vision impaired Pay yourself to form a writing habit I write words...
Wait, really!? I’m glad you told us that Ruben, I would never have guessed. Uh oh, he’s talking about himself in the third person again, that’s never a good sign. It’s interesting how the number of migraines I get has mercifully dropped...