Uneasy Rhetoric

I think Heckasac hit the nail on the head.  Rather than locate at the old Andiamo (which I remember as the Rosemont Grill — that’s how old I am) as planned, Good Eats’ funders realized that they had the power and the cash to both locate in a bigger space and wipe out some major [...]

RT Rider has a terrific post up about how the Regional Transit Board of Directors doesn’t use transit. Specifically, RT Rider asked the members of the Board whether they used transit and received responses from five of the eleven members, mostly listing excuses for not using transit that, while valid, miss the point.
Why do they [...]

The NY Times has an article on five simple ways to go organic.  Briefly, they are:

Milk
Potatoes
Peanut Butter
Ketchup
Apples

Milk is easy. Just about every supermarket carries at least one organic milk brand.  At Nugget you can get Horizon or Crystal. At Safeway you can get Horizon or their store-brand organic. It is a little more expensive but [...]

Hot on the literary heels of my list of books that kinda-sorta changed my life (or not), here’s a list of 32 must-read Sci Fi books.  I’m embarrassed to say I’ve only read one more than a handful of them, and there’s a few that people would gasp to learn I haven’t read: Animal Farm, [...]

(For reason #24, see Chris’ Twitter feed on his site.)
Back in the day, around 2002 or so, I wondered aloud whether anyone knew of any Starbucks that had actually closed.  I was walking through the Financial District in San Francisco at the time and one of my companions said he saw where one had closed [...]