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 [...]
Electricity Kills
… electricity is not a toy.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]