Quest Bars are an exceptionally great travel snack to pack in your go bag. They’re satisfying when you don’t have time to get real food; they’re just tasty enough to enjoy while eating them, but not tasty enough that you’re ever tempted to eat them recreationally.
I got this recommendation years ago from a podcaster named CGP Grey on the Cortex podcast. 100% correct, extremely useful.
I loved his books. His cops were sometimes heroic, sometimes bad and dirty, sometimes both at once. He wrote lovingly about them and about cold-blooded murderers.
He had a remarkable life, continuing to work as a policeman years after his writing career took off, quitting only when he became too famous for police work.
Robert D. McFadden at the NY Times::
“I’m very interested in the concept of the sociopath, very interested, because my conscience has bothered me all my life,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 1989. “Talk about regrets – I have about 20 every day. I was educated in Catholic schools, and they did that to me. So I have to cope with a conscience all the time. And I’m interested in a creature who has none of that.”
I’m at the airport at the gate waiting for a flight out. There’s a guy here sitting in a chair literally playing the trombone. I’m pretty sure he’s a passenger — I don’t think he works for the airline as an onboard trombonist.
At least it’s not a tuba.
How could they have named the company “Anker” when “Wanker” was right there?
I’m getting ready for a six-day business trip and I’m packing light .
I qualify for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, if I can get the paperwork to prove it. I presume Julie qualifies too, as my spouse.
I’m not planning on going anywhere, but if things get extremely DOGE-MAGA, a second passport might be a useful thing to have.
‘I’m proud of its wonderful teens’: Amy Heckerling on how Clueless revolutionised the high-school comedy. I loved “Clueless” and I’m man enough to admit it.
Startup Lonestar Data Holdings is catching a ride on a SpaceX rocket to put a mini data center on the moon — a proof-of-concept for the real thing. I get the technical and legal benefits of putting a data center in space, but why the moon? Why not in orbit, where it would be closer to home and more easily serviced?
