The Five-Minute Breakfast Sandwich
A toasted English muffin, Canadian bacon, egg and cheese become a remarkably good breakfast sandwich with a silicone egg round and about a minute in the microwave.
Kitchen Table · Sep 25Essays, reading, practical knowledge, and the enduring books behind them.
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The Internet has given millions of us the vocabulary of logic without necessarily giving us its discipline. Straw men, ad hominem attacks, appeals to authority and “correlation isn’t causation” have become weapons for winning arguments rather than tools for examining them. A look at what happens when logic becomes part of the performance.
Read More →A toasted English muffin, Canadian bacon, egg and cheese become a remarkably good breakfast sandwich with a silicone egg round and about a minute in the microwave.
Kitchen Table · Sep 25A childhood remembered through the places that cost little but meant everything: Hart Park, a robot slide in Saugus, the Moreton Bay fig tree, Lake Isabella, Morro Bay, Sequoia, Vasquez Rocks, fried burritos, Klieg lights, and family drives up the winding road to Castaways. Decades later, a return to California with my wife brought one of those childhood journeys full circle.
Travelin’ Man · Sep 24When a commercial painting job took my father onto a Los Angeles studio lot near the filming of Batman, he got a very different view of Gotham City—one seen from outside the camera frame.
The Living Room · Sep 24Crisp, golden crab rangoon with a filling that actually tastes like crab. A one-to-one ratio of real claw crab and cream cheese, simple seasoning, and careful oil-temperature control make the difference between crisp restaurant-style rangoons and chewy ones.
Kitchen Table · Sep 24A memory of a June 1962 wedding album, an aunt’s recollection of how people dressed for special occasions, and the small details of family life that become more valuable as the years pass.
The Living Room · Sep 23A Christmas journey into rural Brazil left two missionary boys with an unforgettable lesson in generosity when a family with little to spare welcomed them to a table filled with the one thing they had—bananas.
Travelin’ Man · Sep 22One acronym from an experienced SQL developer can save hours of debugging and produce more reliable aggregate queries.
Test your knowledge of the people, inventions, and milestones that shaped modern computing.
A broad tour through classic, popular, animated, and science-fiction cinema.
Ten questions across novels, drama, poetry, and enduring characters.