Monthly Archives: March 2006

Why Is French Bread So Much Better

Alex Tabar­rok writes about his Le problème du pain while in France. Lots of inter­est­ing com­ments on the sub­ject over there but I would argue the prob­lem is twofold. 1. The ingre­di­ents you have avail­able in France are prob­a­bly of a much higher qual­ity, i.e. the grains are likely to be less processed, the but­ters …

March 20, 2006 – 8:55 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Comments (0)

Those Pretty Euros

Lots of peo­ple think the Euro is the stan­dard for attrac­tive, artis­tic currencies. This seems to push the enve­lope a lit­tle though.

March 19, 2006 – 6:41 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Rain

We’ve been very short on rain in the last 12–18 months but appar­ently, Mother Nature is try­ing to catch up all in one week­end. It’s pretty much been rain­ing non-stop since Fri­day night here and though the paper said DFW air­port only got .64 inches yes­ter­day, you can see from the pic­tures here that we’ve …

March 19, 2006 – 2:48 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

Brokeback Bunnies

A par­ody. And a damn funny one. Does con­tain spoilers. And by spoil­ers I mean it tells you what hap­pens at the end.

March 17, 2006 – 10:02 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments Off

My Alter Ego…

is dying to get out. Either that, or it is becom­ing much too hard to think up ideas to write about on my own. Either way, I have a pro­posal for my hum­ble read­ers along the lines of that Tyler Cowen is doing over at Mar­ginal Rev­o­lu­tion. Your job, should you choose to accept it, …

March 16, 2006 – 10:18 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Opposite Day | Comments (1)

Comedy of Errors

The Demo­c­ra­tic genius for fail­ure con­tin­ues. My favorite quote: At a time when Democ­rats had Bush on the ropes over Iraq, the bud­get and port secu­rity, Fein­gold single-handedly turned the debate back to an issue where Bush has the advan­tage — and drove another wedge through his party. It’s as if they are try­ing to …

March 15, 2006 – 7:53 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (4)

Truth in Advertising

If you read the New York Times lead arti­cle on Iraq this morn­ing, you’d think Iraq is a lost cause, a death march towards Amer­i­can Imper­il­ism fail­ure, on the brink of civil war. If you go out of your way to find other sources, you dis­cover that as usual, the story is so much more …

March 14, 2006 – 8:57 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments (0)

Stupid College Tricks

You’re in col­lege, out on the farm with your bud­dies in the dead of winter. You’re drunk (cuz you’re in col­lege) and as hap­pen­stance would have it, there’s a frozen pond on said farm. You (and your inno­cent bud­dies) think it would be hilar­i­ous to pee on the frozen pond. But you’re not too sure …

March 13, 2006 – 10:35 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Country Bumpkins We Are

This week­end, as evi­denced by the pic­ture above, we put in a new flower bed. Not just any flower bed mind you, we tried the “Small steps to Great­ness” Tony-Robbins approach last year and while inter­est­ing, found it ulti­mately unsat­is­fy­ing in level of dif­fi­culty. So, we went all out this past week­end and the week­end …

March 13, 2006 – 7:58 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Comments Off

Social Networks for Introverts

I give you Iso­latr. I’m look­ing for­ward to that Imo­latr app too. I think I’d get more stuff done at work with that IM client.

March 13, 2006 – 4:21 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)