There are two distinct events that led to what I am about to describe. First, I bought a bottle of carbonated limeade from Trader Joe’s some time ago and thought it was the best $3 I ever spent. However, it did occur to me that perhaps I could be making the same thing for less [...]
Lots of terrible things happened during the summer of 2004, but one thing that wasn’t so terrible was my sweet internship at Northrop Grumman in San Diego, where I got paid a shameful amount of money to stare at a computer screen during the day, and hang out on the beach with old high school [...]
In high school I used to make a lot of playlists. They would have to fit on 1 CD and usually it reflected a wide swath of my music library that I was listening to more frequently at that time. I made the last one of those about 5 years ago. Since then I have [...]
“Eternity isn’t some later time, eternity isn’t a long time, eternity has nothing to do with time, eternity is that dimension of here and now, which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere, and the experience of eternity right here and now is [...]
As a motivation for getting out of bed today, I decided I would make my favorite type of cookie. Fortunately today is a Wednesday, a day of few obligations, so I had plenty of time for my first expedition into the world of baking yummy things. I browsed around online to find some recipes and [...]