Monthly Archives: June 2009

By order of the management!

How amazing are these posters made by digital artist John W. Golden?           I can see how most of them are addressed to children but I could really use some of them to save me the trouble of repeating “Wash your plate!” to D every time he conveniently forgets.   If...

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What the world eats

You know that Master Card commercial that shows you the contents of the grocery basket of a sumo wrestler? This article from Time magazine shows a similar thing: the contents of all grocery baskets in a week for different families around the world.   Japan: $317.25/week     Italy: $260.11/week. That’s a lot of bread!...

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Trend setter

[sometime before lunch today. D was getting dressed for a meeting and was trying to have lunch at the same time.]   Me: Why don’t you put a shirt on? I kind of have a problem with men who strut around shirtless.   D: Really? You do? Hmm… I have absolutely no problem with women...

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