I think it is cool that we are still finding out things like this: a substantial proportion of nutrients in the Amazon basin come from one feature in the Sahara.
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Nice idea for six-word stories. They are a bit like the literary equivalent of smells – very evocative without you being quite able to place them. I liked:Tick tock tick tock tick tick
I can’t be bothered to repeat the statistics, but these are amazingly large / high definition photographs, and very impressive.
It took us several days in Boston (we went for an extra-long weekend ahead of a work trip for Caroline) to come to grips with US portion sizes (e.g. get a starter to share and then hope you can fit the main in; absolutely no chance of pudding). There is research to show that there has been a marked acceleration in portion size (e.g. 100 calories more in standard croissant, 200 more in a bagel). Our next question was “does anyone actually use the doggie bags they all take from restaurants?” and the answer is apparently so (although not in Europe).
nine out of 10 Americans eat leftovers at least once or twice a week, while nearly 20 percent enjoy repeat feasts three to five times a week. One in three (33 percent) belongs to the “leftover lunch bunch,” toting last night’s dinner to work at least one to two times a week for a reheat-and-eat lunch
I find myself in absolute agreement with Jonny. Halloween sucks. And should be positively fought against. I like bonfire night – the whole burning revolutionary stuff is good.
But I don’t understand trick-or-treat. Turn up at a neighbour’s door and threaten them and walk away with candy. Brilliant lesson for the kids. We still have the egg remains stain on our front door from when we were in the kitchen eating dinner and didn’t get to the door in time for the impatient kids of Whitehall Park. Never going to open the door again, no siree.
Joel’s take on phone interviews. I take a similar approach: you kind of know pretty rapidly what your instincts are – it’s then a question of “Prove me wrong” if your instinct is no and “Show me the money” if the instinct is yes. And agreed – people who appear unable to ask questions / have a discussion about a job don’t cut it.
Yeeks. I’m not sure I could be bothered with all of the kerfuffle needed for real calorie restriction for 10 extra years. Bring on the longevity pills.
1) A visual explorer of the Enron email networks as revealed by the trial documents.
2) How do do Pop Art the easy way. I must learn to do graphics packages – they just don’t work the way my head does.