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Random mutterings
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Recent Chicken Scratchings
Seagull say what?
Posted 21 Nov 2011
I was walking along, minding my own business and then I got screeched at by this fellow. His mouth takes up half his face. I couldn’t understand what he was saying … I think he was angry I was feeding a squirrel and not him!
The Great Pumpkin Swindle
Posted 14 Nov 2011
Food, Places, The Little Things | 1 Comment
On a recent trip to a child-friendly farm, I was dismayed to learn that mass-produced pumpkin pies don’t use the wonderful, orange pumpkins that we so look forward to every autumn. Instead, the pumpkin of choice for canned pumpkin is bottle-neck pumpkin, and as you can see in the picture above, is more of a squash than a pumpkin.
How disappointing is that? All I need now is for someone to tell me that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.
This here pile of food
Posted 3 Nov 2011
Daily Life, Drinks, Food, Signs | 2 Comments
This heavily sign-posted door sure asks a lot from people passing by. Signs there are discussing every little thing, making me wonder who is responsible for policing these requests.
Specifically, this one request seems more than a small amount unreasonable to me.
I suspect that many others feel the same way, as there was no massive pile of food deposited on the floor outside. I sure wasn’t about to surrender my lunch to the faceless person requesting that all food and drinks in the world be left outside.
Let them do their own shopping!
Not Chinese tea
Posted 13 Oct 2011
Daily Life, Drinks, Food | 1 Comment
We’ve mentioned before the beauty in gazing at your drink as it morphs under your eyes (see Brownian post), but I must say, I was slightly disturbed when my Jasmine tea started to resemble wonton soup.
If it were Chinese tea, maybe I’d give it a break. Or if the flavor morphed, I would have been surprisingly fulfilled. But of course, it didn’t, and I was left to slurp leaf dumplings.
Oh the lengths we’ll go for free ($3 tea) wi-fi…
