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Powdered Whole Milk
Powdered milk is a great thing to have along when backpacking. It’s a lightweight source of protein and flavor. Unfortunately, all of the backpacking-oriented stores seem obsessed with fat-free products. This yields tasteless, low-calorie breakfasts which don’t seem to keep … Continue reading
Oakland to Yosemite
Google Maps provides a route from the San Francisco Bay Area to Yosemite National Park which runs along 580 to Highway 120. I find this route to be intolerably populated, unattractive, and often ground to a stop due to accidents … Continue reading
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B.O.B. Yak Plus versus Ibex versus Panniers
Trailers versus Panniers Based upon my online research, the trailer versus pannier debate will rage on forever. Panniers have the advantage of not requiring you to worry about a trailer. Trailers have the advantage of reducing your frontal area (and … Continue reading
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Tartine Bakery in San Francisco
B, T, and I stopped at Tartine Bakery after “Beer Croquet” (which, due to a lack of a croquet set, became merely “Beer” in Dolores Park). I had the bread pudding and a mocha, and both were excellent. The bread … Continue reading
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Worst Spam Ever
It’s not even really spam. I assume it’s an attempt to validate random email addresses by analyzing bounces.
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Yay for Ft. Lauderdale Airport
Free, open wireless. Not like lousy Dallas airport, which only has T-Mobile Hotspots ($$$).
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How Many Chocolate-Covered Espresso Beans to Kill Me?
Someone at work left an open tub of Trader Joe’s chocolate-covered espresso beans in the break room. Unable to resist their chocolaty siren’s call, I soon myself munching them down like Skittles. Since I’m unavoidably somewhat morbid, this got me … Continue reading
Japanese Monster (Yunnie VLog)
I came across a series of Japanese videos on YouTube. Initially, they appear to be rather mundane and cute. By the 11th video, things take a different turn, and by the 12th video, they’re downright weird. The videos seem to … Continue reading
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Tagged Gears of War, Japanese, V.Log, video blog, video log, weird, YouTube, Yunnie
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Ebisu Beer and Katakana
While at lunch with coworkers, I was looking at an Ebisu beer flyer and noticed something odd: the katakana began with ヱ. But I’ve never seen that character before! As it turns out, it’s an obsolete character for ‘we’. In … Continue reading