Sudbury, the Big Nickel, and BIFs
When I lived in Canada as a child we were always taking these long road trips to see the sights. Some of the places were more interesting that others. One that I remember from...
Author: Chris Garrity
Why I hate browser inconsistencies…
This post is going to be somewhat out of character for me – it doesn’t include anything about food. But if I can write this up and save anyone else the frustration that I’ve...
Pot Roast with Polenta
I hadn’t really planned on doing a pot roast, but the supermarket had a special on beef chuck roast and it was a cold rainy weekend, so I just had to do something. Yes,...
Clarke Scratch Club – Year 4 begins
Scratch Club started up again at Clarke. This is the fourth year that I’m running the Scratch Programming Club after school at the kids’ middle school. The sign up sheets were overflowing with names...
Fish Risotto
On a couple of occasions this year I have made stock from the left-over fish bones after filleting the CSF fish. That was really the best way to make sure we made the most...
Glad you’re not here?
Yup, it’s snowing today. This is as early as I can remember the first snow of the season around here. It’s not sticking on the ground as that’s still too warm, but there’s definitely...
Lego Servo Brick
One thing we knew we needed to do with the Arduino is to figure out how to connect it to our favorite building set. It turns out that the servo we have (a Turnigy...
Sleep No More
Last night we went to see Sleep No More by the American Repertory Theatre and Punchdrunk with Tom and a couple of his friends. Tom’s friend Ben had gone to see it on Thursday...
Merluza a la Sidre
This week we got Hake from the CSF. This was definitely a new fish for me, so I went looking for more information on the ‘net. What I discovered was that there is a...
Arches National Park
Arches National Park is a park that we’ve actually been to twice. Mike & I visited Arches on our honeymoon in 1991. We returned there in 2006 along with Tom and Peter. Here is...
