Archive for June, 2005

best two dollars ever

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

A bunch of my knives were both dull (something I could correct myself, using a steel) and nicked (something I can’t correct myself, and which came about from years of cutting chicken bones or careless handling on countertops or the like).

I found out that Board and Basket has a service where they’ll sharpen and re-edge […]

Remember, Kids…

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

Electricity Kills

… electricity is not a toy.

Tornado!

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Inside Tornadoes Multimedia @ National Geographic Magazine
I can’t possibly indicate just how cool and well-editted this footage of a tornado blowing directly overhead a little research pod full of video cameras is. It’s just a couple of minutes of film, but it’s incredibly editted. I watched it with my mouth hanging open. […]

you gotta be careful

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Don’t / shake a box of rice milk / hard enough that the little plastic dingus opens up and allows two complete large-muscle motion’s worth of rice milk to arc out all over your counters and cabinets before your early-morning brain can get a message to your arms, something along the lines of ABORT MILK […]

Hot, sticky

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

It’s turned to summer here, with all the flashing thunderstorms and
oppressive humidity that entails. The basement of the house is about 15
degrees cooler than the upstairs corner where I currently have my desk, so I
may move back down there over the weekend. As it stands, though, I’m just
off the kitchen, which means I […]