Category: Hobbies and Projects

From the wonderful Web comic xkcd

WordPress Theme Hacks Useful for that which I do for kicks and cash. (tags: geek blogs hack) Interesting origins of words – Boing Boing Sounds like a book I’d like to read. (tags: reading books wishlist want) A Park That Ran With the Wrong Crowd – New York Times Huh. There’s a closed state park [...]

Thanksgiving with a Twist Thanksgiving at Epicurious.com This is going to be our Thanksgiving menu. Woop! (tags: thanksgiving food cooking)

Books – The New York Times Book Review I should really keep up more on book reviews, considering all the reading I do. (tags: books reading) Foamee Keep track of who you owe beer to (and who owes you). (tags: beer fun friends)

Guys! Mr. Pencil and I are planning an epic feast on Thanksgiving, but we don’t have enough people to serve! Right now it’s just a family affair, but we’d like to extend an invite to friends of ours in the Portland area who are orphaned or otherwise free on Thanksgiving. Let us know if you’d [...]

Machinist: – Salon: Can Amazon’s Kindle remake e-books? Amazon is going to release a “revolutionary” e-book device on Monday. Past attempts have been unromantic, big ol’ failures, but, if done right, maybe it would be awesome. What they forget in their hubris of being “next iPod” is that no one reads anymore. (tags: geek internets [...]

men who look like old lesbians A blog that makes me go bwaahaha. (tags: funny)

Last night I got all weird and creative and decided to make some adventurous pizzas, topped with stuff I found in our pantry and fridge that needed to be used up. Fortunately there wasn’t quite enough dough for me to use the kippered herring I found, but there was some significant creativity nonetheless. My first [...]

YouTube – Georgia Police storm opposition TV station in Tbilisi This haunts me (tags: currentevents russia georgia video) Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Bear Whisperer Oh, dear, it’s Grizzly Man all over again. Someone call Werner Herzog, quick. (tags: crazy bear)

Restaurant Lines | An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink Sums up some of my feelings about wait staff well. (tags: food pdx)