Mark Morford on our unfortunate modern condition of being publicly disappointed all the time.

What happened to my bonus? What happened to my job? What happened to my country? Why can’t it all go…

The lizard brain adores a deadline that slips, an item that doesn’t ship and most of all, busywork.

These represent safety, because if you don’t challenge the status quo, you can’t be made fun of,…

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Making this public. Screw it, let’s get their attention. Thanks Chuck and Hanna for getting this going. Everyone pile on if you can / want to.

Yay for Google Contacts! Now…

Big Day for AR-on-Android News

Lots of augmented reality news yesterday:

I wrote this piece for AndroidGuys.com that they posted today. I’ll be trying to submit something to them about once a week.

El Smok-o Cheap-o: A $12 Smoker

Inspired by my brother-in-law Bill’s forays into the art of smoking meat, I built myself a smoker this weekend. My plan was to follow Alton Brown’s plans for a terracotta smoker made from a couple of large flower pots, a hot plate, and a pie plate to hold the wood. But I saw two issues with that design:

  • You have to remove the meat and the cooking grate to add more wood.
  • $50 in materials to build the thing? I figured I could come up with something cheaper.


And then it hit me: I’ve already got a made-for-the-outdoors, heat-proof box: my grill. I cranked the charcoal platform to its lowest position, and set up a hot plate ($11, including tax, at Walgreens) on it. Ran the cord out the side to an extension cord. Pie plate ($1 at Big Lots) full of wood chips on the hot plate. Meat on the grill above the pie plate. The coup de grace: my grill has a door in the front to add more coals, making it easy to add more wood chips without disturbing the meat or even opening the top. So for a mere $12, I had myself a working smoker.

We enjoyed some delicious proof-of-concept smoked pork chops for dinner tonight. They took about two hours and were delicious. More ambitious projects (whole chicken, pork butt) are in the works.

Carrots In Order: 

I got a little OCD with the carrots we picked today
Carrots In Order:

I got a little OCD with the carrots we picked today

Veggies from the Garden 1: 

Early Girl tomatoes, yellow stripey tomatoes (not sure the variety), cherry tomato, purple bell pepper, and yellow squash
Veggies from the Garden 1:

Early Girl tomatoes, yellow stripey tomatoes (not sure the variety), cherry tomato, purple bell pepper, and yellow squash

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