First, a quick aside. A couple of friends recently retweeted a great blog post by Andrew Chen: Why I doubted Facebook could build a billion dollar business, and what I learned from being horribly wrong. It struck me as a great … Continue reading
So… uh… happy St. Patrick’s Day. I’m pretty ambivalent about this festival. On the one hand, I’m all for celebrations of random cultures, especially when it’s a huge celebration in a place that a few generations ago treated people from … Continue reading
I’m interested in mongrel cuisines. Just about everything I cook myself is mongrel cuisine by definition. I’m culturally rather a mongrel myself, and most of my sources for recipes are not exactly faithful to the culture of their birth. For … Continue reading
I’ve never said these words before but: the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas sermon is excellent, and well worth a read. Here’s the paragraph that struck the deepest chord for me: The most pressing question we now face, we might well say, … Continue reading
