The less serious partts
Not to put too fine a point – if Big Food has their way we’ll all be eating out every day all day. They don’t care who they sell to, as long as the produce keeps moving and the profits keep flowing in. In fact, if fewer people shopped for their ingredients and instead, more…
Haute Couture It wasn’t an April Fools’ joke: Independent Online reported on April 1 that fashion house Balenciaga has introduced a clear plastic bracelet that resembles a roll of packing tape, to the tune of about $3,000. The “Gaffer Bangle” includes an inside label that reads “Balenciaga Adhesive — Made in France.” The company reportedly…
The new diet is “The Planetary Diet.” Emphasising a half plate of vegetables / fruit and then – oh – more vegetables (starchy vegetables) and plant sourced protein and unsaturated plant oils and whole grains, this is a bit of a nightmare to my mind. Mind you, this is almost the Mediterranean Diet, but not…
My work this month was focused on cleaning up the Executive and Conversation Engine and getting them to play well together. This is important because the Conversation Engine has become like a specialized inner loop of the Executive. I think I ought to start at the beginning with a recap of what Acuitas’ Executive does….
Sometimes, a product isn’t photographed in an ideal colour nor an ideal presentation. Sometimes, it still makes it into the Specials email, good taste notwithstanding. And sometimes, Yr Editor must take up the Paint.NET brushes and have fun… Very little imagination was needed… PS: The slippers do look warm and comfortable – maybe in a…
Another hazard of flying: “It’s just a biohazard issue,” the pilot told air traffic control. And indeed, the Delta Airlines Airbus A350 was forced to return to Atlanta after two hours in the air on Sept. 1 after a passenger suffered an “onboard medical emergency”: uncontrollable diarrhea that left the entire length of the aisle…
Every so often I get to have a little giggle. When someone with airs and foibles attempts to out-sneer everyone else. Aw hell – I don’t just have a “little giggle” I have a full-on coffee spit. Like this “Tiktok star” of etiquette with his croissant crappery. A croissant isn’t “made of butter” – it’s…
Here, have a link : If you like the 50s/60s artistic, journalistic, and cultural aesthetic, then maybe check James Lileks’ whole website. I did that once, and lost an entire week to his reportage of the era’s history, advertising, stories, and pictures. He also still writes Bleats, which is a regular opinion column, on the…
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….