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Comment on Even giant inflatable ducks need a break by Back in Quack | limeduck

Back in Quack | limeduck — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:03:27 +0000

[...] long deflated night of the Hong Kong rubber duckie is over. Sayeth the Straits [...]

Comment on Pop over to Clover for a popover by Hybernaut

Hybernaut — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:06:17 +0000

Thanks, David! I’d love to show you a pre-release for comment–hoping for end of this month.

Comment on Pop over to Clover for a popover by limeduck

limeduck — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:03 +0000

Now that’s my kind of encyclopedia! Yes, please do use that photo with attribution and let me know if there are others you want to use.

Comment on Pop over to Clover for a popover by Hybernaut

Hybernaut — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:15:49 +0000

Hooray for Second Breakfast, the Second Most Important Meal of the Day!

Awesome photo–can I reuse it in the Encyclopedia of Street Food that I’m building?

Comment on Be true to your haiku by Snowball is an eight letter word | limeduck

Snowball is an eight letter word | limeduck — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:21:42 +0000

[...] I think a decent computer program could write better snowballs than I can. I’ll stick with my imperfect English haiku attempts at evoking the [...]

Comment on Accept no substitute giant rubber duckies by Even giant inflatable ducks need a break | limeduck

Even giant inflatable ducks need a break | limeduck — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:22:52 +0000

[...] artist working the medium of inflatable ducks, Florentijn Hofman, has brought his giant inflatable duck to Hong Kong harbor, a place that is also special to me. Apparently many welcomed their new rubber [...]

Comment on Accept no substitute giant rubber duckies by Pop over to Clover for a popover | limeduck

Pop over to Clover for a popover | limeduck — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:54:33 +0000

[...] its muffin tin. At $2, it’s a nicely affordable (and surprisingly filling for being hollow) inflatable comfort [...]

Comment on Locavore Sandwich: Kick-Ass Cheese in Davis Square by The Multitude of Mites on Mimolette | limeduck

The Multitude of Mites on Mimolette | limeduck — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:59 +0000

[...] such critters on Mimolette, so here in the USA, at least for now, we are at a Mimoloss. You know I’m all about the local cheese, but this is a cheesy way to win a trade war. I recommend you write your congressperson, or, if [...]

Comment on Palimpsest by Ben Brophy

Ben Brophy — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:23:48 +0000

My only previous reading of that word was when I was studying Indian history, but this quote rom Nehru really stuck with me:

She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously. All of these had existed in our conscious or subconscious selves, though we may not have been aware of them. And they have gone to build up the complex mysterious personality of India.

Comment on The candy map can by All candy should come with technical cross-section diagrams | limeduck

All candy should come with technical cross-section diagrams | limeduck — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:29:39 +0000

[...] German or Japanese candy. To my mind, it should be as required as the nutrition information or the candy guide for the perplexed. Via Steve Almond’s CandyFreak, you can also test your ability to identify candy bars by [...]

Comment on In which I poo poo a North End pocket park plan by Free tree from a pocket park in a parking spot | limeduck

Free tree from a pocket park in a parking spot | limeduck — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:44:10 +0000

[...] by the way, what’s in this park, designed by landscape architects, that’s not in the North End pocket park I noted not too long ago: seating. Just a [...]

Comment on Dub Pies Coming to Haymarket by limeduck

limeduck — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:30:02 +0000

At first I thought it was "club pies" (bad keming, you know) but meat pies are just the thing when you have the munchies, or so I hear.

Comment on Dub Pies Coming to Haymarket by Hybernaut

Hybernaut — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:53:45 +0000

I’ve been wondering for six months now just what a “Dub Pie” might be. I imagined a totally spaced out Jamaican meat pie with lots of reverb.

Comment on Dutch word of the day: Oranjegekte by Bye bye Beatrice, and happy Koninginnedag to all | limeduck

Bye bye Beatrice, and happy Koninginnedag to all | limeduck — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:57:09 +0000

[...] the Netherlands, today is Koninginnedag, the official celebration of the Queen’s birthday, if not the actual birthday of the woman [...]

Comment on Last purchases from Bob Slate by Amazon book showroom in South Station may reopen | limeduck

Amazon book showroom in South Station may reopen | limeduck — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:10:16 +0000

[...] to deliver a teary eulogy for a dearly-departed brick and mortar bookseller, as I have done for a stationery store. Well, yes, I will miss it in a nostalgic kind of way, but the truth is that I haven’t [...]

Comment on Updating the globe by Remaking the world | limeduck

Remaking the world | limeduck — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:14:11 +0000

[...] I’m just a little squeamish about destroying old maps - especially those that are “no longer geographically accurate” – even if they are being reborn as new art objects. Maybe I wish the new art had more [...]

Comment on Situation Normal, All Trucked Up by Fast Movers at Slow Money Boston | limeduck

Fast Movers at Slow Money Boston | limeduck — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:47:11 +0000

[...] Mei Street Kitchen I’ve kvelled about the Mei Mei food truck here before, but at the showcase they unveiled their plan for an immobile restaurant, and also [...]

Comment on Glitch will be the next Instagram by Professor N

Professor N — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:09:13 +0000

There was a central plot theme in Wreck it Ralph which was about a video game character who glitched. In the end she learned to embrace it as a virtue, etc. But it was a central selling point, and it made her cooler than other characters in the end.

Comment on Pie time has come by Glitch will be the next Instagram | limeduck

Glitch will be the next Instagram | limeduck — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:45:33 +0000

[...] of the Instagram reto “film” filters thing. Soon enough that visual language will be dead as cupcakes. Recently I poked fun at Apartment Therapy for calling bathroom home offices a trend, and they had [...]

Comment on Answering the call… of nature by I swear I am not writing this in the bathroom | limeduck

I swear I am not writing this in the bathroom | limeduck — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:08:49 +0000

[...] people enjoy a good read on the toilet (some even take calls there) or in the bathtub, and we all know that LBJ liked to take meetings on the can, but seriously, [...]