PENZEYS Spices Home Page
Some rare spices you can order online. They now carry Szechwan peppercorns.
(tags: food shopping)

Another Friday off, another park to see. I chose the Virginia State Arboretum because I’d seen the Sierra Club is going there on Sunday. It’s about an hours drive down 66 West and 17 North into Clarke County. The drive itself is through lovely rural countryside. The Arboretum is also called Blandy Experimental Farm because [...]

Vintage Virginia
Totally want to do this.
(tags: weekend local)

Green Spring Gardens Park
(tags: local activities)

I’m having a pretty nice time of it lately. There are several things over the horizon to anticipate –
1. I’m going to be getting an summer intern at work. This falls under the category of “something I never expected to happen to me.” It will be my first experience managing anyone. There will be challenges [...]

Fighting Junk Science: Eco-Experts Urged to Blog
“The Internet is a little like the library of Babel, in the story by Jorge Luis Borges. That library contains not only everything that’s true but everything that’s false—”
(tags: science internet)

CAMERATRUCK
An entire truck turned into a pinhole camera taking nature photographs of Spain. In another life, I want to [...]

Josh’s coworker Paul loves to take videos of the goings-on around the company with his cell phone. He adds funny commentary and puts them on the promo site for the game they are developing. Josh has made a valiant attempt to stay out of these videos, but, well, he didn’t quite succeed…
So now I get [...]

ArabRap Official Website
Their most popular song, “Meen Erhabe” (Who is the Terrorist?) is actually really catchy.
(tags: music international)

Watching the brain ’switch off’ self-awareness
The brain assumes a robotic functionality when it has to concentrate all its efforts on a difficult, timed task – only becoming “human” again when it has the luxury of time.
(tags: science)

Finches Provide [...]

Cooking Substitutions
(tags: food)

Office Plants Factsheet
(tags: gardening)

When I was growing up we had a huge bush of flowers in our front yard. We had lots of plants, each special in their own way. The hibiscus that my mom picked out, the rose bushes that I “made my own” by pruning whenever I was bored, the passion flower that grew out of [...]