June 2008
8 posts
Iron Starr Urban BBQ →
I didn’t think that urban & BBQ really fit together, but we had the best food of our four-day trip to Oklahoma City here this evening. Outstanding corn bread with whole kernels, a lean, smoked brisket with a spicy and flavorful BBQ sauce, a solid, local pale ale, and the best braised collard greens that I have ever had. Seriously. Go for the collard greens alone. Spicy and cooked just...
Oh, travels
I’ve been on the road since last Thursday. Drove out to Ann Arbor to pick-up my girlfriend, Annie, and my good friend that introduced us, Jason. From there we decided to drive through the night until we reached Youngstown, Ohio. At about 1:30 we checked into a hotel. The beds were ripe for jumping.
The next morning we woke up around 8 AM. Early. Sleep was a bit restless, and so were...
Dan Ariely: Confronting Irrationality →
Christopher Lydon has a fascinating conversation with Dan Ariely, an expert in social experiments who does a great job in breaking down counter-intuitive decisions that humans make everyday.
I’m sure many of these concepts will be familiar to anyone who has taken basic psychology classes.
Who is happier putting screws into wood for an hour - the person who gets paid $1 or the one that gets...
Thoughts on Yoga
This evening I had my second yoga session at the Y. I’ve been interested in yoga for awhile, but this is the first time that I have taken a formally instructed class. The style being taught is called “flow yoga.” Basically, that means we change positions, a lot. In the one hour and fifteen minute class, hundreds of times.
While these animal names for each pose sort-of describe...
