This past weekend I went up to Harvard and saw my good old pal Nick. He is now at Harvard Law and thus is in a section with a ton of people from Yale and Harvard. They all had a silly e-mail exchange and one thing I saw in there was this article about Yale vs. Harvard. I remembered that I was quoted in it and thought that was funny. Turns out that I also thought that was funny 5 months ago.
This weekend, for the first time in my life, I saw an actual Peruvian pan flute band!
The menu from October 28 (bold = my favorites):
Grape with sea urchin
Biscuit with pepper
Chicharron (pork rind)
Fluke with poppy seeds and butter
Daikon and potato soup with lamb belly
Hen egg with caviar
Egg noodles with mushrooms and broth
Monkfish with sea urchin and broth
Shaved foie gras, lychee, Riesling gelee
Venison with sprouts, celeriac purée
Arnold palmer gelato, mint julep crumble
Pretzel ice cream, fried cheddar, yogurt
It cures everything from arthritis to acid reflux, meaning that Crazy Water is nothing short of a miracle worker (although not the Helen Keller kind). And now you can get it at Whole Foods in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Can Union Square be far behind?
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I find it revolting that I still get these when I buy things like milk. What a waste of paper (and my time)! The default for minor purchases should be no receipt (although you can always ask for one), and the default for bigger purchases that you might actually want to return should be electronic receipts (electronic receipts should be available for all purchases though). These could be e-mailed to each person automatically with an e-mail address that is linked to the person's debit/credit card. If you pay cash, you might have to tell the cashier your e-mail address, but that's still better than having a paper receipt.
If you make a purchase at the Apple Store, they already do this and it's wonderful. How can this not be more widespread? It cuts costs and makes everyone's life easier. In fact, just this past weekend I had to go back to my apartment to get a receipt in order to return something, instead of just being able to show the receipt to someone on my phone.
Look, I'm happy that Obama won too, but maybe the level of excitement last night was a little over the top? Can someone let me know when I'm getting my Obama prize in the mail?
Does anyone own a lobster oven mitt? Or, better yet, two lobster oven mitts? Let me know ASAP.
PS I know that a bleg doesn't work when no one reads your blog.
Update (10/31): Believe it or not, my mom found these for me! As long as there isn't a run on them between now and about 6 o'clock I'm set...
Courtesy of Ken Jennings:
British king George I, as well as most of the Plantagenets, including Richard the Lionheart, were notable for not being able to do what?
My name is Richard and I am an ellipsis and parenthetical statement addict. I also like to write in exclusively lower-case letters whenever possible and have been using the abbreviation FYI an alarming amount recently, especially at work. I apologize to anyone that I have harmed or offended on my rampage through your inboxes.
I often search for technology-related articles on Google (e.g. How many bloggers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer is three. One to do it, one to blog about it, and one to blog about the blog post and then share both posts on Google Reader). The problem is that technology changes rapidly, but Google search results just return whatever articles are most relevant to the keywords entered, regardless of date. So you have issues like searching for "best rss feed reader" and the 8th result is from January 2005! This is useless to me, unless I'm interested in the history of feed readers...Clearly, the published date of results for a search like this is extremely important, but it is completely ignored in standard Google searches.
Amazingly, Google has the date option available in Advanced Search preferences, but has not made this a standard feature...Ilan?
I don't care what kind of misleading headlines Fox News puts up; bottled water like Fred and Fine is really all I can drink/wash my hands with and it always will be.
