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:
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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:
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 Wendy’s high school days, her days at a dot-com and from the Berkman Center. A friend of mine dropped by too — Mike Zole, creator of one of my favourite webcomics, the now-defunct Death to the Extremist.
Among other things, Mike’s a musician, and he brought his accordion with him, which meant only one thing: Jam session!
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 rye with seeds, and shared some potato pancakes, baked beans and a lot of homemade pickles (which they serve free of charge).
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 of course, clams. You can eat in their dining room or on the picnic tables outside. You probably shouldn’t eat this stuff — it’s all deep fried — every day, but as a special treat, it’s far better road food than your typical fast food joint.
Here’s what I had for dinner: the whole fried clams platter, with a clam cake on the side…
If you ever pass through Ipswich, make sure you pass by the Clam Box.
For those of you who do a lot of road-tripping in the U.S., here’s something that you might find interesting — a map of the U.S. Interstate highway system, simplified in a fashion similar to many subway maps:
Click the map to see it at full size.
Map courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
This map is a creation of Chris Yates, and you can get prints of it from the “Toys” page of his site.
Last night, as the Ginger Ninja and I emerged from baggage claim at Peason’s Terminal 1, we saw a chauffeur from a car service holding up a sign that read: Gilbert Gottfried.
“Oh, crap,” I said to Wendy, “let’s get out of here.”
I should’ve taken a picture, but I was just too tired.