I Dream of Trigla
I am using a two-pronged depression fighting approach : drinking coffee and thinking about fishing. I thought about fishing in the Black Sea. I remembered how I really wanted to catch three rare fish...
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Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish
Awesome! FDA decided not to mess with them, so genetically engineered zebra fish is going to become available beginning January 5, 2004 (well, at least according to their website). I am going to ask...
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Watch Out, Burt Rutan
Walking down Sheepshead Bay Road in Brooklyn I noticed this sign a few times. Are they really researching and building spacecraft or is it just a stupid name for a custom car shop or some such? I looke...
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The Non-Plumber Brothers From Brooklyn
There’s a very famous Brooklyn restaurant called Lundy Brothers located in Sheepshead Bay. For years I kind of squinted at the weird stamped letters above the sign which seemed to read “E.W.I.L.”....
View ArticleCubozoans
“Box jellyfish, or cubozoans, are bizarre, highly poisonous predators (New Scientist, 8 November 2003, p 34). “These are fantastic creatures with 24 eyes, four parallel brains and 60 arseholes,” says...
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Homemade Sashimi
I did not get to go fishing as much as I wanted to lately, and a recent winter flounder trip that despite amazing weather resulted in only one keeper fish is not a highlight of my fishing career. But...
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Deadprogrammer Visits Japan Part IVa : Day of the Tentacle
Tokyo has an awesome tourist attraction for those suffering from jet lag – Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market aka Tsukiji fish market. New York’s Fulton Fish Market used to be a similar...
View ArticleBread and Circuses 3: Smelts and Westlake; Uni and Defoe
This is a third, and likely last article in which I pair up food with books. The previous two did not generate a single comment, but I still want to finish the series. My third favorite cuisine is...
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Subway Sharks
I thought it was only crocodiles, but apparently sharks are a part of NYC Subway ecosystem.
View ArticleTreyf
I find Jewish humor to be one of the best ways to explain certain situations in programming. Here are two that I find particularly funny and useful. The first is a true story told me by a friend. I use...
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