This morning while biking to work I saw two funny things.
Entries from September 2009
a visual record
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: china
Nattō, and Natto in Beijing
September 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I like Natto. I think it is delicious. That said, natto is definitely an acquired taste. When my chef sister first tried it she didn’t think it especially tasty, though allowed that it could have a place in fine Asian cuisine. Another friend of mine on taking her first bite declared that it was “like [...]
Counterintuitive in some ways if not others
September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
In a modest attempt to revive discussion over on Route 2(A) I just posted a quick response to some articles I was reading today linking alcohol consumption to doing more exercise.
Tags: links out · personal crap
Certainly the end of something or other
September 1st, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve been reading through David Foster Wallace’s (wiki, fan site) book of collected essays Consider the Lobster (wiki) and am currently in the middle of the essay “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think” re John Updike’s “Toward the End of Time”. I haven’t read any Updike but [...]