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Notes from the beginning of spring: I’ve finally done the smart, sensible thing and cancelled my NetFlix subscription. It turns out that I don’t actually feel likely watching movies by myself very often, and certainly not so often that I … Continue reading →

Cheddar that has been aged for two years or more really shouldn’t taste like process cheese food. Damn you, Vermont! I blame you!

The thing about daylight saving time is that we believe it. I look at the clock in the corner of the screen, and it tells me that it’s 2:43 in the afternoon. Twenty-four hours ago it wasn’t, but I look … Continue reading →

For the past week I’ve mostly been using Firefox at the office. This is a phase I go through every now and again: I tire of how slow Safari can get, and how some of the fancy stuff out on … Continue reading →

For the past twenty-four hours, the city where I live has been in a state of snow emergency: essentially, the word from the mayor’s office has been to stay off the roads. I can’t say that I was particularly tempted, … Continue reading →

One effect of the winter-that-is is that I’m driving into school more; this is partly due to the fact that the obligations of shovelling various walkways (including the one from the street to my building on campus) are being honoured … Continue reading →

The bottle of wine I’m currently going through lists tasting notes of “Sweet blackberries, raspberries, and plums”, but somehow omits the much stronger taste of burnt twigs. (Note that this is not meant as a put-down of the wine in … Continue reading →

The root of the word happy is hap, also found in happenstance and haphazard; the original meaning is something like “chance” or “fortune”. To be happy, hence, is to be lucky.

There’s all kinds of sites that offer driving directions, but fairly few that give walking directions. Since when walking one often prefers to avoid multi-lane highways with no sidewalks, the two are not always isomorphic. (Of course, even if such … Continue reading →

clvrmnky reports that switching from Blogger Classic to New Blogger broke the RSS feed for the Nutshell. If the problem persists, then I’ll see about doing something about it. This is post #222 for me, which means headache, which means … Continue reading →