Alas poor airfryer, we knew thee for but a short time. Not that I care for a clickbait headline nor an article that’s trying to make “frequent fryer” miles, but okay – I want to brag. The “new kid on the block” is a tabletop convection oven. They’ve been available for several decades now. Honest….
I received this charming email yesterday, asking me to link a page into an old existing page on my blog. Hello, I’m Ms. Jxxx Wxxxx, a homeschool instructor. During discussions on the Sleep Insufficiency resources, we recently discovered your webpage (http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xx-december-2020/), finding it immensely helpful for our class.Ada, one of my students, came across an…
You may have a privacy feature on your browser or have installed a privacy extension that stops advertisers tracking you. And if so, you’re probably also used to seeing this pop-up on some websites: That despite the fact that you’re not using an ad-blocker – which is another whole kettle of fish. Or so you’d…
It seems that we’ve been doing it forever, but every so often we need to be reminded. Getting into The Zone, The Flow, to solve our problems. This latest piece of neuroscience advice is something I’ve known (and practiced – just seemingly a long time ago now) since childhood. It’s also pretty self-evident to most…
I said recently that we need more and younger ideas – ideas generated from the young population, political, ecological, sustainability ideas. But we also need far more off-the-wall ideas. Far too many “innovators” are thinking inside the box and getting nowhere. Hi. Today’s Zen Cookbook Idea is that we’re becoming a bit too settled again….
No, not those supermarkets, the one I actually tolerate and feel quite loyal towards. But First – Breaking News! There’s a hint of deja vu on the air. Once again, the Supermarkets Skinning Shoppers Saga moves faster than my publishing schedule. This article was scheduled for July 30th and now here I am rushing to…
Sometimes I find fun stuff that I can present here, and when I do – I do… I found Diesel Sweeties a decade ago, lost touch, heard it stopped, but found what seems to be new cartoons on the site: https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1222
List of podcasts included at the end. I’ll start with a nod to a podcast that was mainly on politics and media but digressed momentarily to colonialism, and then returned to a career in news and political news – the 2024 John Button Oration, introduced by Natasha Mitchell on the Big Ideas podcast, and delivered…