The Muse of Lucas

Posted 27 Jan 2012

Commuting, Daily Life, Signs, Weird | 6 Comments 

Is this a cousin of Luke or Anakin? Perhaps a more distant relative.

Spice out of reach

Posted 25 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Food, Guest Post | 3 Comments 

“How is one supposed to get a bay leaf out without removing the top?”

A great question posed by a reader from Chicago!

Any clever suggestions for this reader?

¿Preguntas o Comentarios?

Posted 17 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Food, Language | 4 Comments 

Para contactar Kellogg’s con preguntas o comentarios acerca de los Corn Flakes por favor llama por teléfono. Tus comentarios escritos en Español no pueden ser leídos, pero con gusto te atenderán por teléfono en tu idioma.

DANGER! Bottomless Coffee

Posted 13 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Drinks | 7 Comments 

It’s morning and you’re enjoying breakfast at a diner. The food is greasy and tasty. You can feel your energy for the day building and you’re excited that you decided to eat here.  In fact, you’re so thrilled by the experience that you fail to keep tabs on an important factor.  This place has bottomless coffee.

Most diners do, in fact.

The kind waiter / waitress swings by your table every few minutes and offers to top off your cup.  You’re eating salty foods, and so you keep needing more to drink, so of course you say “Sure, fill ‘er up.”

Generally, this endless stream of coffee is a good thing. It should be up to you to decide how much you want to drink.  That said, it’s risky business. With the constant refilling, the fact that most fills are not quite  a full cup and not quite a half-cup, it is quite easy to lose track of just how much coffee you’ve imbibed.  Before you know it, you could be 48 oz of coffee in and none the wiser!

So as you lift that next piece of delicious bacon off your plate and prepare to enjoy chomping down on it, watch out for that shaky hand or sudden loss of ability to focus your attention, that could be the sign that you may need to switch to water.

Notable Exception: To our friend who sports six coffee cups on his/ her desk at work, we’re pretty sure this danger is not going to be an issue for you.

Russian Dolls of the West?

Posted 11 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Design, The Little Things | 1 Comment 

Are the towers of plastic containers, stacked in descending volumetric order, that sit in kitchen cabinets across America our modern adaptation of Russian Nesting Dolls?