Things You Didn’t Know About Your Body
Stefan sent me this link to Men’s Journal: Things You Didn’t Know About Your Body, a bunch of facts and tips for health, well-being, and “I didn’t know that!” moments.
Jack has Graduated!
Jack walked across the stage today and got his diploma. All congratulations to him! We had a huge lunch celebration at Maggiano’s; he moves back in with us next week.
Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap
Lifehacker pointed to this Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap. The floorboards of our screened porch let the little nasties in. I’ll try this.
“How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently”
Via the catch-all site PopUrls.com, I found How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently. It calls for a Ubuntu server for backups; we’ve got enough old computers to do this; if we don’t a used unit from somewhere ought to be cheap enough. Will’s Win98 machine (he likes 98 despite the problems it causes and the … Read more
…and We’re Back…
Our old cable modem gave out last week. After going up and down over the last several weeks, it stopped resolving to the Comcast ISP, so we couldn’t get online. It was, as cable modems go, an antique: more than 7 years old. A very nice tech, Noel, came today to help us out. After … Read more
The Oyster Is His World – New York Times
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R.W. Apple writes about John Rowley in The Oyster Is His World, and reading it, for a moment, I wished it was mine too. John Rowley has made a career and a calling of advocating for and raving about oysters, and to me, that’s one of those “Dang, that’s a great job!” jobs. Ah well. ... Read more
Affordable Europe – New York Times
I really look forward to a trip to Affordable Europe. I hope these links will still work when we’re doing our planning. I hope the price of jet fuel doesn’t keep going up. I hope Delta will still honor frequent flier miles for trips to Europe. I just keep hoping.
Some people garden…
... and others have gardening thrust upon them. Ellen had grown some herbs for a few years outside the back deck, and last year wanted to plant sunflowers across the back of the yard. And I thought I’d grow a few tomato plants, as neighbors on either side have large gardens and often share their … Read more
Argentina On Two Steaks A Day
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As promised yesterday, Argentina On Two Steaks A Day, from painter and programmer Maciej Ceglowski’s Idle Words blog (“brevity is for the weak”), via Making Light, one of the net’s uberblogs. I’ll use the same pull-quote they did, which opens the piece: *The classic beginner’s mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of … Read more