I spent much of Sunday cutting down dead aspens. I wore shorts and boat shoes while operating a chainsaw which I know to be a bad idea. Fortunately, my chainsaw is small and underpowered, but I have to wonder if I’m actually a rational person. I wear a full suit, gloves and helmet while riding…
The manager of one of the teams in Bangalore has insisted on showing us around this weekend. Yesterday, we went to the Veerabhadra Temple. I’m not sure what I imagined, but it didn’t really fit any idea of “temple” I had in my head. I don’t understand any religion from a rational basis, but Judaism,…
When I was in grade school, we had a class where we’d write journal entries and our superintendent would have various students read aloud their entries to the rest of the school. The favorites were the ones written by the older kids that were obvious rip-offs of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries, substituting the…
Operation barbacoa: two blisters and two bags of charcoal (to melt through the frost layer) and many hours later Berck is exultant about his hole. The leg of lamb is thawing in the laundry room and a stack of maguey leaves is waiting in the garage. Berck has fashioned wire handles for the pot from…
I have a superpower. I only discovered it recently, though it turns out it had been there all along. And for the longest time I thought it was my greatest weakness. I was continually chastised for it. I fought to suppress it. I sought counseling and read books on the subject. My greatest weakness is…