Being relatively new here (I think we have like 16 more years until we are considered locals) it is interesting to learn local history.
Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt
General Tso’s Chicken Got its Start in a Fancy Restaurant in Taiwan | Smart News | Smithsonian
The backstory on one of my favorite dishes.
Top 10 Incredibly Useful Windows Programs to Have On Hand
I use a lot of these or at least variations thereof.
Grapes Of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution : The Salt : NPR
Lately I have read a whole lot of things I thought I knew much of. Turns out, there is always more to the story.
What does it mean to be Mexican-American?
The revival of hard cider, once John Adams’ daily drink | The Splendid Table
Mmm…cider. Give a listen.
Back…for now
Some twit totally infested the site with scripts and malware and I just got the all-clear to reactivate the site.
In the meantime, I realized that MoveableType no longer has a free offering so I am going to have to go to WordPress at some point.
Ah, well, progress.
It also turns out that I really have to get rid of some of the old image pages and such as the javascript in them is potentially capable of being flagged as malicious.
Well, at least I have some winter projects.
How Mad Max Made All Those Badass Cars — Vulture
How those insane rides were made.
‘Shock the World’ film looks at the numbers behind Ventura win | Minnesota Public Radio News
Sure, he’s a kook, but he’s the local kook up this way and none of that means he didn’t have a few good ideas running around in his freaky ass skull.