Mmmm... Unexplained Bacon

I'm thinking weekly updates are a reasonable goal. I don't want to wear out my welcome. Even though I haven't yet told anybody that this thing exists. But that's totally at the top of my to-do list, as soon as I revamp my website this week.
I notice I've already fallen into the formula I predicted. Ordinarily I'd run with it, but "A thing on the internet and another thing that you can buy" is a pretty sucky theme for a blog. So here's me departing from that pattern with Food Science Day.

First, an article on Molecular Gastronomy, which is teaching us things like the fact that salmon tastes yummy when poached in licorice. Licorice salmon is enough to make a luddite out of me, but I'm definitely intrigued by the bacon and egg ice cream.
Here's another peson who does weird artsy things with food...edible menus and laser beams and whatnot.
Next is an article about the rise of Grey Poupon, and why a similar phenomenon hasn't happened with ketchup.
And lastly, all this food talk prompted Jann to direct me to this journal, which I've recently discovered that UCSD provides online access to. Hooray for that.

Oh, right, I forgot I have this thing

An inauspicious start, I realize. This is why most of my houseplants die. Okay, what's in store for you today?
Which-Way Adventure. This is a fairly old flash game, so you may have seen it already, but it's worth repeating, on account of being one of the funniest things ever.
Same goes for these adorable plush microbes.

First Post Postscript. Or "Second Post," as some might call it

Right, so, content:

Here's something kinda cute. A "Mono MultiPlayer Game" that pits one brain hemisphere against the other.


For the record, my linking to this does not consitute an endorsement of any overblown conclusions that one might try to draw about cerebral lateralization.
But speaking of computer games and neural apocrypha, Tim Schafer just finished his first new game in seven years. (It will also be released on Xbox and PS2 for you Apple types). This is the guy who was responsible for such LucasArts classics as Day of The Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle.

First Post

So, apparently lacking anything better to do with my time, I decided to get one of them weblog kajiggers. My failure to have done so before now is not, as one might suppose, due to my being irretrievably behind the times, but simply because I didn't expect anyone to want to read anything about my life. This expectation still holds. Hell, I don't even find most of the details of my life interesting enough to read about.
So this blog isn't really going to be about me. Rather it will be a collection of things that I think will be interesting. I have a sneaking suspicion that these will be evenly divided between consumer products and Internet frivolity. Why I think either of these will be more exciting than my daily routine is not yet clear, but what the hey.