Posted on 04/19/2019 in misc • Tagged with Life, Personal, Food
Our first date was shortly after we met on Feb 21, 1987. I've told that story. This is the story of a later date. I don't remember when exactly; sometime between that first date and the end of the semester. I think we were back at her house in Zionsville …
Posted on 12/02/2018 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Technology, Food
Way back in the dot com boom of the early 2000s I wrote a business plan for a web app that would let you configure a shopping list to match your store layout. I was going to mine your list (data) to allow grocery companies to direct very personalized coupons …
Like most right thinking people, I prefer my burgers grilled outdoors over charcoal. However, that is not always possible. I've tried a bunch of different ways of cooking a burger indoors, and the usual result is a less than satisfactory burger and/or the smoke alarm going off, because the …
Yesterday at the grocery store I saw a guy thumping the watermelons with his thumb, trying to pick a good one.
He was doing it wrong.
This is how you pick the perfect watermelon every time.
Posted on 11/07/2016 in misc • Tagged with New_Orleans, Food
Mrs. O'DonnellWeb became a fan of hurricanes when we were in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago. We, of course, went to Pat O'Brien's to have a hurricane there. And then we left with no plans to go back, because the hurricanes there suck. They taste like a overly …
Posted on 06/09/2005 in misc • Tagged with Food, Travel, Virginia