‘ProBlogger’ book: How to make money blogging
Twenty months ago, I read a USA Today story headlined “‘Gray Googlers’ strike gold.” It described how a number of mature adults had succeeded in creating an income through blogging and participating in Google’s AdSense advertising...Positive thinking can make you depressed
Curmudgeons rejoice! At long last, science suggests that the forced sunniness imposed by religious evangelists, sales motivators, and self-help books from The Power of Positive Thinking to The Secret can actually make you feel worse. Today’s “Science...Justine Henin singing, acting, cooking on reality show
The YouTube video clip above comes via Straight Sets, the NYTimes.com tennis blog. It’s former tennis superstar Justine Henin singing a duet with Belgian balladeer Salvatore Adamo. There was no explanation there, but a little Googling reveals that back in May,...James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ and ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’
Bloomsday is coming up again this Tuesday, June 16, and so you might be hearing more about Ulysses and Irish writer James Joyce these days than you normally do. Overnight, I caught Thursday’s episode of The Strand on the BBC World Service. During the program,...‘Morning Joe’ Scarborough brews up Jon Stewart feud over Starbucks
‘Morning Joe’ Scarborough brews up Jon Stewart feud over Starbucks Former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, may be the electronic media’s most tolerable conservative Republican. He may even have a new book, out...Original Culver’s restaurant location: Sauk City, Wisconsin
Original Culver’s restaurant location: Sauk City, Wisconsin Since we were near Sauk City, Wisconsin the Saturday before last, I thought it might be fun to look for the original Culver’s Frozen Custard & ButterBurgers Restaurant opened by George Culver...Flip Ultra HD video camera: Our first camcorder
Meet the very first camcorder we have ever owned. It’s the Flip Ultra HD, which arrived on the market at the end of April. It also comes in white. I had been lusting after something like this since reading Andy Ihnatko’s Flip Mino HD versus Kodak Zi6...First Culver’s restaurant monument: Sauk City, Wisconsin
< Previous Photos Next > First Culver’s restaurant monument: Sauk City, Wisconsin Sauk City, Wisconsin — Monument marking the location of the first Culver’s restaurant at 716 Phillips Blvd. It reads: The George Culver family opened the original...Frogmore Stew shrimp recipe (Lowcountry boil)
In late June and early July of 2003, we vacationed in the South Carolina Lowcountry, staying in Beaufort and visiting Charleston, as well as Savannah, Georgia. One of the meals we ate on the trip and have made many times since is a shrimp recipe called “Frogmore...
