Author Archives: kenneth

Stanford’s health site for its staff is full of random tidbits: For example, a cup of what is called 2% milk on the package may contain 5 grams of fat and 120 calories. In other words, 38% of its calories come from fat. It is a peculiarity of the labeling regulations that milk has been […]

Brilliant idea of the day (not approved by Martha Stewart): Instead of dousing baby carrots in a bowl with Marie’s Poppy Seed dressing and letting precious and tasty dressing go to waste (unless you’re going to lick the bowl afterward), just dump all the carrots into the dressing bottle, close the cap, and shake shake […]

Since I haven’t blogged in nearly a quarter of a year, I was tempted to just up and systematically delete all of these entries today.  But instead here I am adding another one.  *Shrug* Life at Meyer: — My cube got flooded when a silly consultant put a message to me in my serenity rock […]

Wow, shameless plug:  My photo site broke through the 10,000 photo threshhold!  Chieze’s album has 10 hits, and it doesn’t even have any photos in it yet!!  I think I’ve spent the past three hours trying to sort the endless Stanford pics.  Google AdSense still hasn’t figured out that there isn’t a single ghost-related photo […]

It just occurred to me that people in England probably don’t celebrate (American) Thanksgiving.  I mean, part of it is about *fleeing* from England, after all.  I bet Google has to make sure their turkey and pilgrim graphics and whatnot for the Google home page are absent from people searching the Web in England.  I wonder […]