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Today, I took the wife on a lunch date to the newly opened restaurant Nine Mile in Asheville. I’d give a link, but their web designer is apparently slack. The restaurant is run by Aaron, husband of my web-designer friend June.
The atmosphere was excellent, mellow with some reggae music. We got an [...]

The other night, browsing the local Target, I came across some Archer Farms Blueberry-Pomegranate Italian Soda. My oh my, it’s tasty stuff. Archer Farms is just Target’s own store brand (aka “generic”). Historically, store brands have been simply cheaper knock-offs of some brand-name product. This is still quite prevalent in [...]

I like snack.
At the supermarket, they have a variety of trail-mixes available, which I buy even though I seldom walk on trails. Even within a single species of mix, there can be good tubs, excellent tubs, and downright crappy tubs. I start to get the feeling that trail-mix mixing is more of an [...]

Brian Topping had the foresight to bring his digital SLR and document the Oof Uncamp gathering last Tuesday evening. Attendees included some current and ex-ThoughtWorkers (Paul Hammant, Kurt Schrader), some guy from Ning (Brian McCallister), a cow-orker (Pete Royal) and a VP of something-or-another at Yahoo! (Sam Pullara). Plus our intrepid photo-historian, Brian [...]

Continuing the trend of physical-world things you can buy at Lowe’s, I’d like to sing the praise of the charcoal chimney.
This summer, I decided to start grilling with actual chunks-of-wood charcoal, instead of pressed-and-formed McCharcoal Briquettes (now made with all white meat). Real charcoal does not include the mass-load of volatile organic compounds [...]

I will be holding court at the Vinings Starbucks, in Atlanta, Saturday night, with my son. I’ll probably be there around 8pm or so. Email me (bob@ this domain) if you need more information or anything.

Today marked the first day of grilling season up here in the Appalachians. For some reason, nothing is quite as satisfying as dousing some brickets with some volatile organic compounds and setting it all aflame. The forced relaxation that comes with waiting for the perfect coals is to be savored. I could probably make an [...]