Posts in the "food & drink" Category...

The Age of Illusions: Good Eats

food & drink, opinions & venting, scientist & skeptic, skepdad »

[17 Apr 02012 | 350 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

Plato’s famous “Allegory of the Cave” offers us a Matrix-likened philosophy of people trapped in an illusion cast as mere fire-lit shadows of a bigger reality. Those who escape, we are told, return to the cave to inform the others but …

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Reloaded: Caffeine Restoration Edition

critters, food & drink, photography, work & business »

[6 Apr 02012 | 340 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. …

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Ohana Hawaii, The Saga Redux – Part 3

food & drink, travel & holidays »

[28 Mar 02012 | 543 views | 8 minutes of your time ]

One year ago (as I write this) I was on a two week vacation with my daughter, wife, and my wife’s extended family. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, at the time I was also on a blogging sabbatical, journalling dry-spell, …

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Ohana Hawaii, The Saga Redux – Part 2

food & drink, history & archives, travel & holidays »

[27 Mar 02012 | 566 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

One year ago (as I write this) I was on a two week vacation with my daughter, wife, and my wife’s extended family. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, at the time I was also on a blogging sabbatical, journalling dry-spell, …

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Daddy Daze: Spring Break Edition

fatherhood, food & drink, sport & fitness »

[26 Mar 02012 | 258 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

It can snow, and that snow can unequivocably suck for the pack required to roll even a baseball-sized wad of the white stuff let alone the stickiness required for a three-foot ball of fun.

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Hackable Me: Version Snack Attack

food & drink, running »

[20 Mar 02012 | 330 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

A “Hackable Me” post is a few words on incremental personal self-improvement: a personal hack to better myself. I’m actually very skeptical when it comes to the kind of DIY, fixer-upper, read-this-book-to-change-your-life sort of self-improvement one normally thinks about. On …

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Medium London Fog

food & drink »

[16 Mar 02012 | 475 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

Today marks twenty-five days of no-coffee for me and, ironically enough, I’m sitting in a cafe (on my Friday off) writing a blog post about it. Do I miss it? A little. But, I cope largely because I know …

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Absolution, Art, and a Bit of Brew

abstract & thinking, food & drink »

[24 Feb 02012 | 435 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

Self-deprivation might just be an art form.
I’ve been without coffee for a little more than four days now. That’s right: I’ve gone cold turkey on the juice… albeit temporarily. The inevitable headaches came and went. The one suffering sleepless …

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Daddy Daze: Rolled and Cut Edition

art & code, fatherhood, food & drink »

[14 Oct 02011 | 1,506 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

This is a post from my (new) “Daddy Daze” series, an anecdotal exploration of my odd little adventures in parenting in bite-sized chunks (for your reading enjoyment) and because the last thing this world needs is yet another doting parent blog.
Spring Rolls …

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