Actually, it turns out it’s not the turkey meat responsible for tryptophan and subsequent postprandial napping, it’s the carbohydrates. Still, we’re going to take the weekend off.
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In the Armory
Monthly Archives: November 2008
It’s US Turkey Day!
November 27, 2008 – 9:42 am
Preparing for Thanksgiving This Week
November 25, 2008 – 2:51 pm
I was surfing randomly through Wikipedia, which is something I do because shut up, I just do, and discovered that it has a list of harvest festivals, the US Thanksgiving included. I’m extremely pleased that in the UK it’s just called a Harvest Festival. No Solung or Chuseok for them.
I wonder what a rebranding of [...]
Eli Loves the Beach
November 25, 2008 – 1:47 pm
Since we have family in the Florida panhandle, we’ve spent Thanksgiving week at the beach for years now. Eli’s been coming since before he was born, and in the past he’s not thought much of the beach. When he was a year old, he didn’t like how the sand felt under his feet. When he [...]
Pushing Up Knight Rider
November 23, 2008 – 5:12 pm
Entering a Hex Wifi Key on an iPhone or iPod Touch
November 21, 2008 – 9:15 am
For anyone else having to use a hex string to access their encrypted wifi network over an iPhone or iPod Touch: put a dollar sign in front of the string. Instead of, say 2DBA7C, enter $2DBA7C. It looks like Apple used to let you choose between a passphrase or a hex key in version 1 [...]
I Have Succumbed
November 20, 2008 – 8:56 pm
The Tubes are Unclogged
November 19, 2008 – 9:31 pm
Thomas Kinkade, Art Director of Cheese
November 19, 2008 – 4:25 pm
You may not be familiar with Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light™. Much of what you need to know can be summed up by him trademarking the phrase “painter of light”. He paints bucolic scenes, often of cottages that glow as if on fire, using a soft pastel palette. He also is frightened of hard edges.
Kinkade’s [...]
Tobias Buckell Falls Ill
November 19, 2008 – 7:27 am
