jamin on January 22nd, 2007

The book discussion group that some friends and I have been keeping alive for the past few years now has a Google Group set up for questions, announcements, and general discussion. If you’re in the St. Louis area and are at all interested in getting involved in an extremely casual book discussion group, feel [...]

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jamin on January 5th, 2007

This guy did an interesting 1-month experiment:

For the month of November, I’m only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of [...]

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jamin on January 4th, 2007

DailyLit is a free service that emails you small sections of a book or other piece of literature daily. Now a portion of my reading time is built right in to the time I spend checking email. Currently I’m subscribed to Poems by T.S. Eliot. I’ve had to tweak my spam filters [...]

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jamin on January 3rd, 2007

Happy New Year, everyone! Since one of my resolutions this year is to eat out less and cook more, I thought I’d have my first post of 2007 be a recipe. I love these crock pot meals because the preparation time is 5 or 10 minutes and I can leave it slow cooking [...]

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