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This year I became obsessed with the CASIO F-91W . I wanted a simple digital watch to help me read the time when carrying my daughter, and to reduce the number of times I needed to touch my phone. Forever skeptical of the Apple Watch (what do you actually use it for?), I tried one out a couple years ago but other than the fitness tracking it felt like another distraction to manage. The first…
This is not nutrition advice. The internet says I need to eat more protein. And not just the youtube guys who make videos with no shirt on and happen to sell protein powder. Reasonable advice seems to suggest that the average active adult needs somewhere between 0.5 and 0.8 grams of protein per pound of total bodyweight per day. Why? Even if you don't want to become The Hulk, eating more protein…
I love them. Those crispy, chewy, doughy, buttery, sweet things . I love them so much that on my recent trip to Hong Kong I ate 18 of them in 22 days, and all of them with butter. There were a couple I didn't finish, but yea, it was a lot and it was great. I also love Hong Kong's cha chaan tengs where one finds said buttered buns, it was a pleasure to visit so many of them. My standard order is:…
The time it takes to forget whether or not you like something from a store is often shorter than the time between visits to that store. You go to Burger King for the first time in a year. You know you had the Impossible Whopper last time but you can’t remember if you liked it 🤔 You, think “it looks pretty good, why don’t I try it again?”. You take a bite and it all comes back to you - you did not…
Why I love the MTR