On our first day of vacation, the Ginger Ninja and I enjoyed a simple but tasty dessert that her mom makes: Brownie Thing, which is simply ice cream between two sheets of homemade brownies. It’s 81 square inches of dessert heaven:
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Jun
30
2007
Scenes From a Vacation: Ethan Zuckerman and Squishy Cows
It was good to see Berkman Center fellow and Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman at the Berkman Center luncheon. I brought presents for him and his wife Rachel (she, along with AKMA, officiated at the Ginger Ninja’s and my wedding) — Tucows squishy cows. He wasted no time in turning them into fashion accessories:
Jun
30
2007
Scenes From a Vacation: Accordion Jam at Grendel’s Den
After catching danah boyd’s “My Friends, MySpace” presentation at the Berkman Center at Harvard, the Ginger Ninja and I made our way to an old hangout during her days there: Grendel’s Den, a nice little pub in Harvard Square.
We took a corner table and caught up with all sorts of friends — from [...]
Jun
30
2007
Scenes From a Vacation: Rein’s Deli
On the way from Boston to Hartford, the Ginger Ninja and I stopped for lunch in Vernon to enjoy the food of her people at Rein’s Deli…
As with the Clam Box, this is much better road food than your typical fast food place will serve you. I opted for a tongue-and-swiss sandwich on [...]
Jun
30
2007
Scenes From a Vacation: The Clam Box
While hanging out in the Boston area last week, the Ginger Ninja’s mom took us to The Clam Box in Ipswitch. The building was built to look just like a clam box, so I couldn’t resist taking photos…
The food at the Clam Box is classic New England fried seafood: shrimp, scallops, fish and [...]
Jun
30
2007
The “South Park” Characters, Reinterpreted
[via Reddit] I rather like these interpretations of the characters from South Park…
Click the picture to see it at full size.
Jun
29
2007
America: Still Number One
I’ve been a fan of The Economist since my last year of high school (a while back; it’s the year Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was released); it would be the magazine I’d point to if asked which publication was best aligned with my socio-politico-complexo-migraino worldview.
The cover editorial from the current issue, [...]
Jun
29
2007
Water Tricycle
I love this photo, and would love to have a water tricycle:
Click the photo to see it at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Jun
28
2007
The Economist’s Cocaine Index
Here’s a chart from The Economist comparing per-gram cocaine prices around the world:
Click the graph to see the Economist article.
It would seem that it’s not just prescription drugs that are cheaper in Canada than in the U.S..
For an economic index that’s a little less illicit, check out the Economist’s [...]
Jun
28
2007
Kitty Fly-By
If you’ve got an idea for a caption for the photo below, please leave a comment!
Click the picture to see it at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Jun
28
2007
The Post-Wedding Jam Session
The Party After the Party
I’ve got to tip my hat to my brother-in-law Andy and new sister-in-law Sue. Most newlyweds are happy to vanish into their room after the reception; they decided to throw an after-party. I like a good post-party party as much as the next free-wheeling accordion-playing bacchanalian bon vivant, but [...]
Jun
27
2007
And Finally, the News…
It may not be the Howard Beale “Mad as Hell” meltdown scene from the movie Network, but I’ll take it for now: here’s MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski refusing to cover the Paris Hilton non-story despite the prodding of her co-anchors and producer. Really, people, of all the things with which we should concern ourselves, that [...]
Jun
26
2007
The Nirvana “Nevermind” Baby is 15?!
The year was 1991, and as a DJ at Crazy Go Nuts University, I was getting a lot of mileage out of this album:
Guess what: Spencer Elden, the baby on the album cover, is now 15 years old.
[via Reddit and The Striker Diary]
Jun
26
2007
“Oh Beautiful, for Retail Space, for Shopping Elbow Room…”
Here’s a graph from a blog posting by Jim “Long Emergency” Kunstler titled Peak Suburbia comparing the retail space per person in the U.S., Sweden, the U.K., France and Italy. If the data on which this graph is based is correct, Americans have 6 times more retail space than the Swedes, 8 times that of [...]
