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I had hoped to put up a blog category of cycling-related stuff, but unfortunately WordPress.com does not allow the <iframe> elements that I need to display my Garmin Connect activities, so I’ve had to do it old-school on my personal … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-11-01 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Started posting some cycling stuff

Back in August, I posted “Coming Attractions (redux)“, a status update for my summer baking project. Summer is now over, and we’re well into autumn by any definition, so it’s time to review what I actually did (it wasn’t exactly … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-10-04 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Summer baking and autumn baking

I’m going on a short trip starting this weekend. The recipe I was planning to bake would have been a repeat anyway, so I was not going to do a post. I have another post in the works, not food-related, … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-09-18 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Brief blogging outage

Somehow, the question came up on alt.usage.english of the distribution of author surnames (in people’s personal libraries) over the letters of the alphabet. Since I have a library database, I came up with the followng crazy query to answer this … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-08-05 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on From the “Pointless SQL Queries” file…

If there’s a long line of cars behind you and you stop to let me turn across traffic, thanks, the courtesy is appreciated. If, on the other hand, there is no one behind you, I am already planning to make … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-06-11 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Dear considerate Massachusetts drivers

I have nothing in particular to post this weekend because everything I’ve done so far I’ve already covered. Today (Sunday) I redid the Cook’s Illustrated vegetarian chili from earlier this year; the only thing new I have to report is … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-06-07 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Posts coming later this week

I spent the past weekend in San Diego, so there’s no new food to post about. Also, we are entering that time of year when my workplace is chock full of free food, and I also have a substantial amount … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-05-13 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Limited posts for a while

It’s a long holiday weekend here in Massachusetts, and I have a fairly ambitious schedule planned. First, if the weather is decent, I’ll be spending as much time on my bike as I can tolerate. Beyond that, I’m planning on … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-04-17 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Coming up this weekend

Amazon decided that, because I was honest with you, my readers, and told you that I might actually get some money if you ordered stuff through my links to them, they didn’t want to have me as an “Associate” and … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-04-15 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Administrivia: No more Amazon links

There will be a couple of quick posts later this week about two recipes I made this weekend, Deborah Krasner’s all-(grass-fed)-beef meatloaf (from Good Meat) and the whole-wheat peanut-butter muffins (with peanut-butter frosting) from King Arthur Flour’s Whole Grain Baking. … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-04-12 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Stuff I did this weekend