Rufus Blooter

The early-80s film Valley Girl had the laughable ad/poem: She's cool. He's hot. She's from the valley. He's not. Fortunately...

Similar method for the ribs. Heavy on the rub because there's no smoke to give them flavor. I put them loosely in a pan and covered the ...

Finally got an oven-cooked brisket I'm happy with. I've got high-heat roasts down, and high-low roasts (e.g. silverside, topside) do...

Things I learned this week from recent health news: eating meat makes you die more if you're American eating meat makes you die the sam...

Lifts : I know it's exciting. You are ready to stride decisively into a metal box, to be whisked up or down to the office floor of your...

One of the charming things about British sports appreciation is the concept of luck. Or should I say "luck". No where else, certai...

Are we in the reductio ad absurdum era? Sarah Palin, congressional hearings, Twitter.... And in the diet and health corner, we've got m...

It's pretty easy to get up to mischief with excel. Here's a wonderful post from the hyperlipid blog that recharts one of the result...

I owe Apple an apology. I got prompt service from online chat support for mobileme. We didn't fix the problem, but went through a variet...

Apple's debaculous MobileMe offering has now completely hosed my mail. No sequence or combination or repetition of account deletion, cre...

Just spent a week skiing. Badly. But lots of fun. There are some things I only enjoy if I can do them well, and others I enjoy regardless of...

I used to dismiss Atkins as a crank and assume it was all nonsense, despite those around me who actualy tried it doing well on it. Then Gary...