Amazing drive back from rafting today.

“One of the dysfunctions of our age is the conflation of shoddiness with authenticity” – David Rees “How to Sharpen Pencils”

Hat tip to Marginal Revolution

You would think that the clock on a stove would be a ho hum experience. But this is the first time I’ve seen it in over a month.

Kitechenaid’s (now owned by Whirlpool) design did not include a seal for the membrane keypad. So after a few cleanings and some wet hand use, it finally shorted out. Wow, what a crap design.

Needless to say the new one has a seal courtesy of some silicon from the local home center.

From Rick Bayless’ “Authentic Mexican”. Attributed to Puebla’s Fonda Santa Clara restaurant. Surprisingly complex flavors. Reminded me of a Mexican version of a Hungarian stew.

Scoring 2 for 2 on the recipes from this book.  I am looking forward to the next one. 

For all you software and engineers, I found the mythical foo bar.

To know another language is to have another soul – Charlemagne

There have been a lot of questions around the Emerlemann house about how to use the B-day toy.

Apparently, my thumnails grow by about 1mm per week, as can be seen by the separation of the scar on my skin from the gash in my nail. Both were from hatchet abuse last weekend, and were aligned perfectly at the time.