by David | Mar 3, 2014 | science!, travel
I thought I knew a thing or two about peanut butter, but today I learned two new things: Peanut Butter in a jar is a liquid Peanut Butter sandwiched between crackers is not a liquid How can this be, you ask? Three letters: TSA, that’s how. On the tragicomic...
by David | Jan 3, 2014 | eating, science!
It was cold. Really really cold. And snowy. So we opened a bottle of wine. Wouldn’t you? Well, it wasn’t a great bottle of wine, sort of young and rough around the edges. But we’d opened it and we weren’t going out for another one. (Yes, there...
by David | Oct 10, 2013 | science!, working
I’ve gone on record as being against individual offices and for working at a standing desk in a common space with colleagues. To this I generally get two different kinds of objections: first, “but I have all sorts of confidential calls to make” to...
by David | Sep 22, 2013 | reading & writing, science!
You probably know that today is the Autumnal (in the Northern hemisphere) Equinox, the end of Summer and the start of Autumn. In fact, it’s right about now, 5:44pm ET. I thought it was odd that the “day and night of equal length” was at a particular...
by David | Sep 18, 2013 | science!
Top search terms for this blog, largely in order, lightly curated, in haiku form: Babka, Bialy, Square car, Linkedin API, Ferris wheel at night. Murphy bed, Fisheye camera, Man bag, Blackboards, Sfogliatelle. Wine with fried chicken, Scrabble, Limeduck, Shrubbery, Pig...
by David | Sep 16, 2013 | science!, travel
We all know that parallel lines never meet, and it’s convenient to think of the lines of longitude and timezones as parallel, but they really aren’t. The former because they’re inscribed on the (more or less) spherical Earth, and the latter because...
