Something to keep you busy

by Jeremy on 27/8/2008

in Just Links

  1. How have we created a food system that requires irradiation in order to eat salad?
  2. Dave Freeman, co-author of “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47. That’s really sad.
  3. Can bad taste every (sic) be glamorous?
  4. Mini-cows: They are cheaper by the pound, but more expensive by the head.

2 comments

Eats Wombats August 29, 2008 at 2:10 am

Begorrah, small Irish cows. What future for Irish roads? Traditionally: a road (bothar) = a cow (bo) and a cow across (bo thar)

The diminutive: boreen.

Miniboreen perhaps.

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Eats Wombats August 29, 2008 at 2:55 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7584235.stm

Before you die-ism (before you get a life-ism)

I have a “someday” list with a couple of lifetimes of things to do already. However, if I reflect on the things that others might add to a BYD list that I’ve already done (visiting the Taj Mahal sorts of things) they are not as satisfying as many mundane pleasures–a friendly welcome as a regular patron in a favourite restaurant or dining regularly with friends or serendipitous discoveries or doing something for someone else.

It’s all a bit miss the point-ism.

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