The way to get into a bento habit, apparently, is to have lots of pre-made items around the kitchen. Apparently there’s even a Japanese word for this bento stash: johbisai. This week’s assignment w...

Here’s my homework for Assignment 4. Yeah, there was no Assignment 3, as far as I can tell. We went from 2b to 4. Whatever. The assignment was to make a bento-based lunch. My new bento boxes arriv...

Here’s a quick one. This assignment: Go through the list you made for Assignment 1, and determine which kind of lunch you’re most likely to pack. Is it compact and grain-based? Do you want some...

This week’s assignment was to take a regular meal that you’re planning to eat, and experiment with packing it into a container wisely. The point, I believe, is to show that you can fit a “normal” a...

Yesterday, Beth and I made some big life decisions for our medium-term future. I’m going to take a regular position with a software company again, and we’ll settle down wherever that company is. We...

Last weekend I went to sleepy Dubuque, Iowa to film the very first USARS Roller Derby tournament. It blew my mind. Fans, if you haven’t seen roller derby played by these rules, you must check it ou...

My MacBook Pro is 18 months old, and the battery life has degraded terribly. I originally got three to three-and-a-half hours out of it. That wasn’t anywhere near the seven hours Apple advertised f...

Here is a letter I just sent to [email protected] attempting to explain why they should remove their advertising from one of my videos. Hi, I uploaded a video that contains audio from a song t...

If you followed our travels here in 2011, you may be interested to know that we’re starting to travel again. Starting September 7, we’re leaving Denver and setting out on a trip through the eastern...