Polymath (n): A person who has extensive knowledge in many different areas
One of the great things about living up in the Pacific Northwest is that we have lots of good Asian food. This week I went to a couple of really great places while visiting with some friends. However, things are a little bit different once you start getting east of the Cascades. In particular, where Read More …
Anybody who has studied some etymology can tell you that there are lots of words and phrases out there with somewhat counterintuitive origins. There are many words we take for granted which did not exist in our language at some point. In some cases, these words are the result of other words taking on new Read More …
Hello all. I know that you missed me last week. I wish that I could say that I was busy with work or struck with a sudden illness, but in reality I just forgot. My bad. So, to make it up to you, there’s going to be two posts this week! This is the first Read More …
So today’s post was going to be about a mostly unrelated topic to this. Until I discovered that I couldn’t really find any references to what I wanted to talk about, but found this instead. I’m not going to reveal what I was originally going to talk about, because I might come back to it Read More …
When I was a kid, I loved candy. Who didn’t? Whenever I went to the store with my parents, the question “Can we get some candy?” would never be far from my mind. The answer was usually “No”, but sometimes we’d get lucky. But not all candy was created equal. Some candies were ones we’d Read More …
As a kid, I grew up watching the Food Network. Through it, chefs like Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray, Mario Batali, and others inspired a lifelong love of cooking in me. Unfortunately, as with many channels, the educational content in it has taken a nosedive in favor of competition shows. Nowadays it seems like Read More …
Three years ago, on April 15, 2019, the great cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris burned down. The construction of this incredible piece of architecture began all the way back in the year 1163. That’s fully 613 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. At the time of the fire, I remember people Read More …
Well, here we are – it’s finally summer. Or, at least, it will be in five days. And yet, for some reason it doesn’t really feel like summer to me. Maybe that’s just because the temperature this weekend was IN THE FORTIES. IN JUNE. WHAT THE HECK. Seriously, though, it’s been bizarrely cold and rainy Read More …
Hey there folks. This week’s trivia is a little short, but I have padded it out by including three small bits of trivia, all related to each other. This week, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her platinum jubilee as crown head of England. This year marks her 70th anniversary since taking the crown. As a result, Read More …
Ahhh, schadenfreude. Is there anything better than seeing someone overconfident in their success suddenly be crushed by their own hubris? To stand spectator and say “look at them, hoisted by their own petard”? But that is a rather strange turn of phrase, isn’t it? It’s one of those sayings that seems to be rather common Read More …