Anyone who can insult me, inform me, confirm my fears, correct me, and create a new icon for the 21st century - the crazed angry chemist - is all right by me.  •  Best. Comment. Ever.

Reading the NYT this morning, I came across this odd passage in a story about a chef who was given some basic cooking tasks but had to use other oils:  •  “Mr. Schwartz, a chef who has worked in some of the city’s most celebrated restaurants, including Le Cirque and Osteria del Circo, agreed to …

A few years ago I decided that not getting sleep was not good. I yap about napping a lot but it is one of the few things I make a point of doing. And I am not talking about dealing with a cold. But I seem to have put my head down last night at 4:30 pm and pretty much snoozed until 7:15 am. I …

It looped. Whatever I had a couple of weeks ago looped back. The head is a bongo left in the hands of a three-year old. Everyone is hacking. I drink the blood of pine trees for comfort.  •  For some reason I needed to record Omega Race, a big part of my early undergrad, here on the blog today. If …

It has been a bit of a blur recently. Much of what I do at work boils down to reading, writing and editing. I get up and read and write - and sometimes edit - here. And recently I was asked to write two beer related bits, one 500 words and one 5000, which means I have been pretty much writing for … read more »

So I figured if I was qualified to act as judge and executioner over the life of a  •  cat I was at least qualified to be amateur boy vet. Seems likely from what  •  you read on the internet that the old thing is anxious from the move, creating  •  alkaline pee and over eating. I've been doing … read more »

"Explain myself? I don't have to frikkin' explain myself...I'm a cat!"  •  As far as I can tell, I think there are humans on one side of the line and then there are plants and animals on the other. Our cats were mousers. They were brought in for a job and when we moved three and a half years ago … read more »

I'm just staying quiet today. A touch of bronchitis of a sort.  •  Meantime, can't we just let Monte be Monte?  •  “The demonstrators, who called for an immediate moratorium on all deportations, surrounded Solberg at the podium, and then blocked his exit from the church hall's front door. When …

It's one of those days I try to plan to never have.   Back from work after ten at night and then in the office before eight.  It's not so much the in the office thing as in the office in black shoes thing.  •  So I am on the run.  But first....why do we care about this?  •  “Americans are 42 per …