I listened to Radio Lab‘s episode “The Ring and I” over lunch today. It’s all about Wagner’s Ring Cycle and it was really in a lot of ways a completely eye opening listen. I really like classical/orchestral music but I have a really hard time listening to opera. Actually, I seem to just naturally be [...]

You know, I’m amazed at how much news there is out there. I mean, when you really think about it. From the guy who skunked me at one game of cribbage during lunch, and won the next fairly handily. Tags: game, lunch

I’ve been playing Cribbage at lunch with a coworker and today, after we have been trading skunks the last couple of days, I had a near-miss at getting double-skunked. Thank goodness I managed those last six points. Tags: lunch

It looks like King Kong devastating a nice area rug, but tastes much better than that sounds. – Dara Moskowitz describing a dish at Los Ocampos at the Midtown Global Market Tags: dining, lunch

The following is the contents of the login quote file from L-Space: vaxjo: this is a test! Mainsail: Oh dear..It’s the brain again…Will someone kindly beat me senseless? Glyph: And then there was…. well, something resembling a great big mess. Mainsail: BBC Reporter talking about the Middle East conflict: “The Lesban..Libbanese…Lesbian Millitant….Oh damn…Lebanese Millitant Group [...]

I tried the White Rock Organics Passion Orange today at lunch and was really very pleasantly surprised. It’s not as sweet as the very good Red Peach, which in turn is not as sweet as the horrible Raspberry Creme. I do have to admit that the initial flavor was sort of odd, but the finish [...]