My exhaustive photolog of the decline of Sid Rich, part 1 June 13, 2023 Apparently this is the day I committed to cataloging the destruction of Sid Rich. If memory serves, it’s because there was fencing around the building, so it was obvious that the building was coming down imminently. Or so I thought. June 20, 2023 You can see that there are some small machines in place, but that’s…
October 8, 2023 Destruction really happened on the Main St side, but the side facing the South colleges mostly untouched still October 17, 2023 More wreckage Main St side, mostly still intact on the front side. October 20, 2023 Some of the windows which had previously survived are gone. October 24, 2023 November 1, 2023 It finally happened! November 28, 2023 Rubble cleared December 1, 2023 March…
I’ll be honest, it was a bit of an impulse buy, I didn’t do a lot of research. I was curious and I felt like the performance numbers meant that even if I hated it, then it would likely be worth the experiment. 1. Charging your battery off your wall outlet is surprisingly slow . I get less than a kWh charge over 60 minutes, which gets me a few miles depending how fast I punch it in the…
So I see this on sale for ~$2.10 as I am looking for cookies in the supermarket. I turn over the packet. It promises to crush my craving. Ok I’ll try it. I rip it open as I leave the supermarket. It’s about as if a roll of Tums were cut into 5 or 6 equal size chunks. It tastes like…I’m not sure what exactly. Chalky, not too surprising, it’s definitely full of gluten.…
Right before I accidentally quit posting, I wrote a rambling post about wishing there were new fast food concepts . Here’s one called Ziki. I saw it in this tweet : It claims to be Greek with a bit of Mexican, but most of the fare is standard fast food, as seen above, a la chicken sandwich and chicken fingers. The kicker seems to be a pledge of no seed oils. Austin seems to be a good place…
If you want to understand how Javier Milei thinks about things, I recommend this recent interview. Interviewed by a Brit from Bloomberg who asks questions in English. So if you don’t speak Spanish, you’ll need to generate subtitles from youtube, which won’t be perfect but should be directionally correct.
For the release of Llama 3, Facebook put out some press releases, but Zuckerberg did two podcasts I watched this one: Agreed with Zuck on a lot. While he might be long-term bullish on AI, he’s not some Malthusian doomer screaming about regulation (to benefit himself) in the name of “saving humanity.”
Former Argentine midfielder Lucas Biglia has a long interview in La Nacion . Interesting throughout if you speak Spanish (or translate it), but one bit caught my eye: …no puede ser que los jugadores deban tomarse dos o tres aviones y tardar 20 horas para llegar a la Argentina. Poné un chárter en Madrid que traiga a todos juntos’, le decíamos. A mí, una vez me tocó hacer…
It’s _andalucia plays_ by Slowdive, on repeat: It’s a mood, more than a song. Lazy summer day, maybe rainy, swells, patter, plodding. Melodic melancholy shimmering toward beauty.
Hamburgers, chicken sandwiches (and offshoots such as wings/fried chicken), tacos/burritos, pizza, sandwich/salad. I’d guess that’s easily 95% of fast food revenue in this country, and probably greater than 99%. Lately there are some salad franchises that seem to be in expansion mode, though I would guess that’s more do to high margins than volume and also is limited to…
Since I got sick and skipped a few days of caffeination at the end of the year, I’ve kept my streak going. My mate looking empty and forlorn: Getting the first few days out of the way made the first couple weeks easy. Sometime around week 3 , I felt like I needed a bit of a spark that some caffeine might have provided, but it wasn’t a major loss either. Just needed to focus on sleeping…
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things was the Swanson Chicken Pot Pie. I didn’t have it very often, and I’m not sure why. I guess it was a treat, and packaged frozen food was relatively speaking much more expensive than today, but it still can’t have been that expensive. But apparently it was expensive enough that we didn’t have it often, despite the fact that I loved…
Whenever I go down the candy aisle of the grocery story, I feel like it has declined since my childhood. There’s less options. There are improvements, of course. Lots more higher-quality chocolate (mostly European; I want to be clear as someone who has done the tour at the Hershey chocolate factory at least a dozen times that this sentence pains me to write!) So I try new things sometimes.…
I’m not sure where that particular factoid comes from, but somewhere in the mid to late 90s this got repeated everywhere to the point where everyone believes it. A cursory Google search did not turn up any conclusive evidence, so my guess is that it’s like many things from the era just before the internet went mainstream: there’s a journal article somewhere, the MSM picked it up…
There are nearly 100 teams in the top 4 divisions of English football, also generally known as the Football League. The top 2 are both in League Two (that is, the fourth division…yes, English football nomenclature can be complicated!), and I have no idea how they’ve managed to survive that long. It’s probably a good story. Accrington Stanley in particular is a punchline in…
Today Jon Stewart announced that he will return to the Daily Show, so I figured I’d watch his movie Irresistible. Jon Stewart is funny. The Daily Show was funny. This movie is not funny. How can that be? My best guess is that Jon Stewart’s jokes need… Jon Stewart. I realized this when I realized that my biggest laugh of the movie was during the end of the credits where they…
When the world first began to open up post-pandemic, lots of friends at conferences brought along the Aranet4, which is a CO2 monitor. This is it, for scale, it’s about as big as a table coaster: The idea was that a CO2 monitor is a good proxy for whether you’re at risk of Covid contagion. If there’s lots of CO2 in the air, it means you’re likely in a poorly ventilated…
Rarely does a film clock in at 2 hours and 40 minutes and yet end up feeling both too long and too short. But it does. This feels like a film that should’ve been either cut down under 2 hours and made more romantic or done the director’s cut with more biopic. As it is, the film simply doesn’t really have enough romance to fit in that genre – how they ended up loving one…
Since I’ve been off caffeine since late December , I’ve replaced my yerba mate with caffeine free tea when I wake up and then again before bed. Without realizing it, I got the equivalent of topshelf tea (ie, it was ~$7 for a box instead of ~$3.50). I was first tipped off because when I opened the packet, it said multiple times that this was a “tea sachet” not a tea bag.…
I took a picture, but the burger didn’t look too great and I didn’t want to unfairly prejudice. But I won’t be returning to Buff Burger, which currently has just one location on the west side of the Katy Freeway. I’ve recently eaten both the standard and their Texan (but I added the free option of arugula to the Texan, which was a very good decision). First complaint:…