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Monthly Archives May 2009

Baked beans

For the record, baked beans don’t work very well with ground meat. The meat needs to be in (largeish?) chunks. Better recipe forthcoming, pending some more experimentation.

Posted 28 May 2009 † Dmitry § food ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

AppStore Ratings

Stuff like this makes you wonder. How accurate are the ratings in the AppStore?

Clearly this is a positive review, but the reviewer only assigned one star! So the rating paradigm is not as clear or intuitive as I would have though.
It’s a mystery.

Posted 08 May 2009 † Dmitry § misc ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Starting strength, starting running

As a prelude to the my actual post here’s the foreword to Starting Strength (2nd edition):

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not. As humanity has developed throughout history, physical strength has become less critical to our daily existence, but no less important [...]

Posted 06 May 2009 † Dmitry § fitness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Intelligence Squared

Fascinating podcast from NPR, Intelligence Squared US. A panel of experts is chosen and these experts argue for or against a certain proposition. The ones I’ve listened so far were Is Bush (43) the worst president of the last 50 years? and the ever popular Who’s to blame for the financial crisis?. This is apparently [...]

Posted 04 May 2009 † Dmitry § misc ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,