Archives for the ‘Delicious Ideas’ Category

Everything is Better with a Little Benny Hill

Take yard work for example:

I just moved to a new apartment with a yard!! It’s not exactly big enough for a softball game, but you could definitely play at least half a game of horseshoes. Maybe a quarter game of petanque. On tap is a nice dining enclosure, some non-weed shrubs around [...]

The End of Business as Usual

When it comes to operating costs, industry likes business as usual. Take an industry that I’m a little too familiar with, health insurance. When you’re dealing with mass quantities of people, you can predict how many people are going to have kidney failure, or how many people will end up with diabetes, or [...]

When Giants Roamed the Earth…

It’s only been two days since I officially finished for the semester, so I haven’t had much chance to read up on any of my favorite goings-ons, but I was able to do plenty of thinking and picture taking during my daily treks through downtown Brooklyn on my way to Pratt.
So, we’ve got this whole [...]

Thoughts on the End of BSG: So Say We All…

I don’t really want to say anything about the plot or the final episode, or any of the other minutea that I’m sure is being discussed on the internetz regarding the intricacies of the plot/characters.  The BSG team gave us four great seasons full of people and events that elicited honest emotional responses from the [...]

The Dog: A Heart’s Best Friend

I’m reading up on transportation issues concerning our aging population and I just hit the section on alternate forms of transportation (e.g. Walking or Biking) and the paper cites a study conducted by the CDC, which produced the following conclusion:
The CDC estimates that if 10 percent of adults began a regular walking program, $5.6 billion [...]

In the Spirit of Winter

Sweet merciful crap, I love this!!  This guy out in Iowa modded his own ice bike with stove bolts!!

Question for the Locals

For the Columbia County peanut gallery…
Do you think that the migrating geese that landed in the Catskill Game Farm saw the rhinos and the giraffes and got freaked out?

Hybrid Age in Dog Years: Finally Answered

A while back, I posted on the growing concern I had with the long-term viability of hybrid cars, based on all the fancy doo-dads under the hood, contrasted with the budgets of the usual people who buy eight to ten year old cars.  And it seems that Toyota employee Jon F. Thomson, in answering a [...]

Bagless in New York

One of my New Years resolutions was cut down on plastic bags and even though I brought a tote bag to work with me, the toughest part, I found, was actually remembering to tote the tote along if I went out and bought lunch. Today was actually the first day of the year that [...]

The Real Cost of Maple Syrup

Sitting my own little slice of heaven on board this MD-80, I’m still dwelling on an event that happened earlier today. Maybe this is an indicator of how little I fly (or how I usually fly), but I had to check a bag today (due to the TSA’s fear of syrup in large quantities), [...]