Archive For April, 2011
I occasionally check my Gmail spam folder to see if anything got mis-filed as spam. And this morning I was surprised to see an email from Google AdWords in there. I checked it out and it was legit. Funny how two departments at the same company can be not on the same page and even [...]
It took a while, but I finally finished Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. You may recognize the cover with its lettuce and the book’s key advice: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” It was a very interesting read, thanks Chris for the recommendation. Pollan believes our “Western Diet” is the [...]
Local garbage pick-up was recently taken over from Waste Management by Livermore Sanitation. As part of the change, they introduced a volume-pricing model: the more garbage you create, the more you pay. (It’s possible Waste Management had a similar system, but it was not well-publicized.) Regardless, this pricing model is a great idea, since it [...]
For me it’s my baseball-turned-softball glove. Obviously it way too big at the time, but now 20 years later it fits great. The leather is worn paper thin, so if I catch anything wrong I definitely feel it. And it’s a little floppy up by the finger tips, which makes it hard to snowcone a [...]
The latest manufactured controversy in California is over the assembly’s recent decision to pass a law mandating “gay history” be added to the curriculum in California public schools. Predictably, some people think this is at best just another example of the nanny state pushing the “homosexual agenda” and at worst a sure sign of the [...]
Switching up my lunch meal was another big shift for me. I used to always have a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, an apple, some baby carrots, and some white cheddar Cheez-Its. On a mission to reduce the amount of processed carbs I consume, I had to make some drastic changes, including getting rid of [...]
