Archive for January, 2016
Please vote!
No, not for President (yet). For my new jacket design. If enough people vote for it, Betabrand will manufacture it and then I can get myself one. Voting Link. Betabrand is a clothing company that seems to specialize in unusual products. The one that seems to be their flagship is the Dress Pant Yoga Pant, […]
cool book sighting
In case anyone is looking for the book to give a kid after you give her Swallows and Amazons, I just stumbled across it: The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon and 101 Other Things for Young Mariners to Build, Try, and Do on the Water. Given that last time I encountered someone with a potato gun they […]
the idiosyncrasies of description
Another wine posting up: Montinore Almost Dry Riesling. It’s actually kind of hard writing about wine, or really anything with a complex flavor (I think descriptions of coffee would be the same). Because of the complexity, it actually changes flavor as it passes through your mouth. Professional wine people have their own vocabulary, but if […]
Another wine entry s up
The two wines of this weekend. Also some notes about why and whether to hold a wine in your mouth for 30 seconds while tasting – warning, it can be unpleasant! Tonight we had roasted cabbage and beets with our steaks, as well as some bread baked for a dough we forgot and left here […]
Things I’ve learned about cooking
These are things I’ve picked up about cooking – one I learned from my mom way back, one I learned more about today, most somewhere in the last few years. What are some of yours? Always scramble your eggs before adding them to a recipe – just break them into a cup or small bowl […]
never assume you know it all
Sparked by a discussion on Ravelry’s “This is What a Feminist Knits Like” Forum: Baba Yaga Meets the Mansplainer So, you know all of the stories about me; Tales of my long nose and my skinny knees and my house that walks on chicken feet. You are told that I cannot hurt the pure of […]
the fabled Fabla
Did I say once a week? Silly me. I will probably post about every wine we drink, since we do actually rate them all, unless it’s one I’ve already posted about. Tonight we had one we’ve drunk many times, though not in this vintage, and it’s still a bargain. There are also notes on the […]
#AWineAWeek
We’ve decided to start a new project and resuscitate our moribund joint blog – this was inspired by our friend Brett’s OTTBeerDiary project, in which he reported on 365 craft beers in 2015 (but actually sampled (hopefully not finished) a staggering 1125 beers in 2015, including over a thousand he hadn’t tried before. We are […]
confessions
I. I never heard of the Thin White Duke before this week. I mean Ziggy Stardust yes; the brilliant creator of Space Oddity and heroes yes; one of very few Boomer musicians who was still making good new music by the time I was in high school yes (pause here to regret John Lennon; assassinated […]
trading in, trading up
Amazon has a cool promotion going on; you can trade in an old Kindle and get a giftcard for $5 to $35, depending on model and condition, plus an extra $20 that can only be used to the purchase of a new Kindle. However, if you’re going to do this, don’t be in a hurry; […]