From that’s nerdalicious (and created by Pop Chart Lab and Orbit Visual Graphic Design), a chart with the proper ratios of espresso drinks. (Click to enlarge, or go to a larger version here.) Make mine a latte in the morning and a doppio after lunch. Note: there’s no caramel or other goodies that turn coffee […]
On Sunday I had the pleasure of taking a visiting speaker, professor John Willis of Duke University, to lunch. John works on the adaptation of Mimulus (monkeyflowers) to unusual habitats—copper mines, serpentine soils, etc. More important, he’s a foodie and an old friend (he was a graduate student in our department in the Devonian), and […]
I had hoped to post something a bit more weighty than this for post #5000 (it’s been a good run, I think), but I suppose the combination of cats and unbridled capitalism is appropriate. So, on to Henri, the formerly existentialist cat. . . It was too good to be true. Along with Henri’s latest […]
As I promised yesterday, the first reader who visited the new bar Hitch, located in downtown Toronto, and quaffed Hitchens’s favorite tipple, would receive an autographed version of WEIT. Well, it didn’t take long. One reader, who didn’t look at my post too carefully, even poured himself a shot of Mr. Walker’s amber restorative at […]
You don’t really have a choice, you know: you must take your amber restorative (preferably Mr. Walker’s noir) at the Hitch Bar at Queen and Leslie Streets. And, of course, it’s named after the late great atheist, as the website blog TO reports in a positive review: The bartender informed me that the bar is […]
Needless to say, I ate well on my recent trip to Georgia and South Carolina. I’ll put up two posts on the comestibles, with the first covering down-home Southern cooking and the second the fancier food I had in Charleston. Met at the airport at Atlanta, I was immediately taken to the Barbecue Kitchen of […]
If you’re of a certain age (an age even bigger than mine, but I read old stuff), you’ll know about the amazing and amusing inventions—most of them imaginary—of cartoonist Reuben Garrett Lucius “Rube” Goldberg (1883 – 1970). Here’s one example of his imaginary devices: an alarm clock triggered by the arrival of the early bird catching a […]
