The Blork Blog

It’s a sad day for lovers of canned tomatoes. While fresh tomatoes are obviously a superior choice, even for making sauces, we of the wintery climes cannot deny the year-round convenience of good quality canned plum tomatoes when it comes time to make sauce for pizza or pasta.
This is particularly true if you, like me, […]

Loyal readers will remember that I magically lost 20 pounds last year. Actually, it wasn’t so magic – I cut back on the beer, improved in my eating habits (smaller portions, more vegetables, etc.) and developed an exercise routine that I stuck to pretty regularly.
Unfortunately, I put five or six pounds back on in December. […]

The following is from an old email message I recently unearthed (circa 1998) in which I reply to a friend who had inquired about the apparent lack of idealism among the people of “Generation X.” I’ve been thinking a lot about old people lately, so finding this seems rather timely. Unfortunately, I can’t decide whether […]

Loyal readers will remember that Martine and I went to Italy last May. We spent four days in Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast, and I’ve finally gotten around to making a photo set on Flickr for some of the photos from that leg of the trip.
You can see it here. Next up: Florence and […]

Last night a few of us headed over to the nearby tobogganizizing hill for some gravity-based winter activity. It wasn’t really tobogganizizing since we didn’t have an actual toboggan. But I was excited about trying out my new sled – a fancy looking thing branded by “Ski-doo” that looks more like a mini surfboard than […]

The week started off well, with Martin Luther King Day in the US. However, that’s a “federal” holiday, meaning it’s pretty much just civil servants who get the day off. In other words, my American overlords were all at work that day, so I couldn’t spend the afternoon napping under my desk. So much for […]

People have been asking if “24” has “jumped the shark” since half way through the first season. There is very little agreement on the topic, and it seems every new episode prompts another wave of “has 24 jumped the shark” posts in the Blogosphere.
To this question I give you an unequivocal “no!”
I say that not […]