Author: doug

Making turkey & sage pie for dinner this week, and putting the dough in my Pi plate, I thought, “This needs to be geekier. How can I make this geekier?”

In recent years, this Christmas cactus has been a Thanksgiving cactus, a President’s Day cactus, or an Easter cactus. But it rarely blooms on Christmas Day.

These guys were jogging past the front of my office building and singing (yelling) Christmas carols military-fashion (ala Stripes).

I should not be able to harvest parsley from the garden on the last day of autumn.

The camcorder on the left is from 2000; the one on the right is brand new. The old one weighs 2.5 pounds, has a 25x optical zoom, and records an hour of digital old-style video onto a 1.5 ounce tape.  The new one weighs 10 ounces, has a 40x optical zoom, and records 2.5 hours of high-definition video onto a 1.5 gram memory card.  And is waterproof to 16 feet.

We had our “tenant appreciation breakfast” this morning at work. We had a new caterer, and everything was very pretty, but the glitter was a bit much. As one of my coworkers said, it looked like a unicorn had been using our elevator.

Boston Organics sure delivers a lot of citrus this time of year.

This scene greeted me as I walked from the garage this evening.

This is my grandfather’s typewriter, purchased new in 1934. My grandmother continued to use it through the 1980s. It still works, though it could use a good cleaning (which I’ll give it) and the rollers underneath the platen have hardened and developed flat spots so paper does not feed smoothly.

Our cherry tree is confused by this season’s weather.