Walking on paint in your stocking feet can be a good thing
Category: Design
Bad Bread
Sometimes, food goes bad. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t food.
Conversations with God: the Size of Avocados
“Avocados are too big.”
What to do with a jar of pickled asparagus spears (if you can ever get it open)
A jar of Foster’s Pickled Asparagus Spears can be really hard to open, but once you do…
Optimal Processing: When to Slice your Bread and Peel your Bananas
What aging bread can learn from brown bananas
Problems with Milk and Toilet Paper
If you have Problems, you could look for Solutions. Or you could look for more problems. And gather them all up and lock them together in a room and see what happens.
Snack Efficiencies: Chia Pudding
I read in a comic book that ninjas in Edo-Period Japan would carry special food pellets with them, and they could survive on just two a day. I also remember the comic book saying that the pellets were a dehydrated preparation of chia and honey. Some day I will have to find that reference again,…
X’s and Eggs
Do you know what it means, when you see an egg with an ‘X’ on it? I bet you do. I do. But why? Why do I know? Did someone tell me? If they did, it was a very long time ago. If they didn’t, I must have just figured it out. But what I’m…
Bad Mug
Some people would look at a mug, and figure it’s the same as every other mug. People have favourite mugs, but that’s just because of hte picture, right? Or maybe it has some sentamental significance — it was a gift, or a prize or something. Maybe you think that mug technology has been perfected, and…