It turns out the soil in our back yard is fairly toxic. My housemate Molly, rather than give up gardening, decided to invite a bunch of people over to help make raised beds in which to grow edible plants. I helped in the best way I knew how: by making a themed cake. More low [...]
A round up of recent goings on: Open Data Day was great. Tate Williams, an Open Media Boston reporter, wrote about it. Our OpenHatch event at Harvard also went well, I thought. I’ve got a blog post about it here. I did my monthly data analysis and put it up on GitHub. I’m not making [...]
I made five kinds of truffles last Saturday. The first two were inspired by this recipe and had a pumpkin and ground gingersnap base. I followed the proportions given, but added some ginger and a few pinches of salt to bring out the flavor. (I had forgotten how mild pumpkin is.) Some of the filling [...]
I’ve been a bit busier than usual the last few weeks. Missed last week’s post. More beer for everyone! Here’s a list of things I’ve done between my last post and now. (Why yes, this is a pretense for skipping another week. Glad you asked.) I planned an event for two weeks from now: Free [...]
This week I visited New York and stayed with my cousins while their mother was in the hospital. Over the course of several days, my younger cousin, K, and I hacked the board game ‘Guess Who?’ Guess Who is not so terrible for a kids game. Or at least, it didn’t seem so bad after [...]
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