Month: October 2014

I took my last commuter rail ride of the season this evening. I’ve been taking the train since June, but I have to drive in to work tomorrow, and I will commute by car until it’s once again light enough to safely bike to & from the train station. Perhaps by next winter I will have come up with a good way to keep using the train year round, but I didn’t want to push it this year.

It’s not often that we get San Francisco caliber fog in the Boston area.  This morning was an exception.

I personally have been known to be fluent in “Hot Water”.

Romanesco is a close relative of cauliflower, but looks much cooler. And it’s a good vegetable for mathemeticians: Fractals! Logarithms! Fibonacci series!

This device is basically a handheld mini-broiler.  Its purpose is to put a nice sear on food that’s been cooked sous vide (or otherwise didn’t brown properly).  This was a Kickstarter project and mine arrived today — just in time for cooler weather and some nice sous vide cooked meals.

This is where a bunch of Waltham’s water comes from, or at least gets stored for a while.

This is my first new prescription in something like 8 years. The strength is just a minor adjustment, but the astigmatism angle for my left eye has changed, *and* they’re progressive lenses.  This is going to take some getting used to.

Lis got me a GrowlTap for my birthday.  It turns a beer growler into a mini-keg for your fridge — you can keep a growler fresh for much longer than otherwise, and the beer tastes much more like beer from a tap.

I’m migrating my father in law from his old Linux system to an old MacBook from my brother in law. This should reduce my support load.  He has no idea what OS he’s running but can get better support from others if it’s Mac.

And yes, that’s a glass of armagnac. I’m not willing to waste the evening entirely.