A recent story from Yahoo news: Tech Creates Bubble for Kids The jist: To baby boomers and other adults of a certain age, young people may seem rude, disrespectful and generally clueless about established social mores. But to social scientists, the phenomenon is more complicated. Raised by parents who stressed individualism and informality, these young …
Author: Matt Mullenix
Whole Foods in Hot Water
It’s somewhat chic now to trash retail grocer Whole Foods. Whether it’s about price or pretension, almost everyone I know has a gripe. Michael Pollan shared his beef in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, prompting this response from company execs. I’ve got a bone to pick with them, too, having lost to their expansionism the last good …
More Terrierman
Patrick Burns, whose exceptional blog we noted earlier and added to the Q. ‘roll, has recently added us. We…are…pleased. Burns has been “playing in the gutter” (that’s old school lingo for updating his nav-bar), and his blog now offers a good post archive. I spent some time browsing this morning and see, to my amazement, …
Brown Eyes and a Taste for Steak
Heritability of food preference in children is the subject of a new study (in press with the Journal of Physiology & Behavior) by researchers with University College and Kings College, London. Wire service reports can be found here and here and the original article by Fiona M. Breena, Robert Plominb and Jane Wardle can be …
A Corporate-Sponsored, Televised, “Non-Fatal Hunting Tour” for Points, Cash Money and Valuable Prizes
“For far too long, hunters have looked forward to the day when we would eventually get our own professional sports league. Well, that time has arrived and we are extremely excited.”—Brett Hankins, a WHA Tour hunter It’s hard to choose which target to shoot first. Call it a bass tourney with guns, or paint-ball with …
Blog Family
Two essential additions to the blogroll: First, the writer and falconer Rebecca O’Connor, from Banning, CA, a longtime Q. reader and member of the Not-Technically-Extant-But-Devoted-And-Sincere-Nonetheless, Steve Bodio Fan Club. And Patrick Burns (see Terrierman, below) whose own fan club just got a couple new members in Steve, Reid and myself. Enjoy!
Why Are We So Strange?
We three have chattered away for a year on things that strike our fancies (some of them more fanciful than others). Evidently you share these interests, and we’re glad for that. Maybe we’re not so strange after all. When Steve and Reid traded a couple early photos last week, I thought it might be fun …
To Google or Not To Google (a note from Webmaster Q.)
In its First Anniversary Celebration Week, Querencia took a few minutes to tally up the revenue it generated via the Google ads over the past year. These ads come to you in the little box to the left (don’t look; we’ve deleted them), which predictably/maddeningly mismatch the ads with our content. For example: We note …
Gator Mania
Los Angelenos love their ‘gator tales! Reid noted this feature by LA Times writer Carol Williamson on the recent spate (if three be a spate) of fatal attacks on Floridians by the large reptiles. As the only one of us living within the range of the American Alligator [A. mississippiensis], I’ll do the honors. The …
Knocking Around
In Standing by Words, Wendell Berry writes of “poet watchers,” whose sport it is to find out what makes poets tick. It’s clear this annoys him; he’d rather them want to know what makes the poems tick. I get it. It’s another iteration of Berry’s emphasis on work and his impatience with infatuations for their …