Iris and I have a new video game obsession: Tasty Planet. You begin as a microorganism, created in a lab as a revolutionary bathroom cleanser. But you swiftly grow out of control, feasting on paramecia, insects, toys, rats, and so on. We haven’t gotten very far, but I note that the last section of the game […]
PG Tips + PB Twix.
Recently I recommended Ball freezer jars. Since then I’ve been using them for all sorts of things: salad dressing, Iris’s lunch, plutonium. And now, actual jam. Neil wrote: By the way, freezer jam totally kicks regular jam’s ass. My Mom made a LOT of jam back in the day (we never bought the stuff) and […]
Pok Pok, my favorite restaurant in Portland, is the Oregonian’s restaurant of the year. Why is Pok Pok our Restaurant of the Year? Because Ricker, 43, has smashed the mold with cooking rarely encountered outside its home turf. You’d have to look hard in this country, let alone Portland, to find a similar collection […]
Matters of personal finance are better left personal or discussed by articulate experts like Stacy Cowley, but I can’t introduce this topic without explaining that Laurie and I have developed an arcane system for taking one monthly paycheck and randomly occurring freelance writing checks and turning it into a steady income stream without running out […]