Category Archives: Conspicuous Consumption

On hobbies of all kinds

So that “Bones” Kickstarter I pledged a while back finally arrived, and I’m realizing that it’s going to take me about three and a half years at the current pace to finish painting them. (On the other hand, my kids seem perfectly capable of “finishing” two minis in about fifteen minutes, so we could be […]

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DevConnections Las Vegas, Day One (Pre-conf.)

When the clock-radio alarm goes off at 6:30AM, it is playing Katy Perry’s “Waking Up In Vegas.” Oddly, nowhere in that song does she discuss blearily performing one’s morning ablutions, then staggering downstairs to purchase an $11 plate of biscuits and gravy from a Nathan’s Hot Dogs stand and eat it while sitting under a […]

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So we headed to Chicago’s Chinatown….

…for the New Year’s parade last weekend — and, while taking advantage of the truly lovely and unseasonal weather,  introduced my in-laws to dim sum, which somehow they’d never managed to encounter. (The girls, of course, had their usual — sesame chicken covered in sweet orange goop over mounds of white rice — but the […]

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Curds and whey: cottage cheese reviews. Seriously.

I enjoy the odd bowl of cottage cheese every now and then. But I’m picky; there’s a huge difference between brands, and it doesn’t simply boil down to trusting that the more expensive ones are going to be better. As a consequence, I find myself sampling brands whenever we start shopping at a different grocery […]

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I’m really not much of a shutterbug…

…but I’ve been looking over the past few years for a camera to replace our aging — aged, really — Canon G5. I like a fair bit of manual control, but Christy kept running afoul of the various mode dials on the G5; she’d accidentally bump it over to Aperture Priority mode or Movie mode […]

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