Verizon makes graphs of where you’ve made your cell phone calls from. It is cool to see where you’ve been and for what time periods. Without knowing the specifics.

I like data visualizations like this – it is general enough that it tells you something cool, but non-specific enough where I don’t feel violated by the amount of information that Verizon stores on my usage.

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They served us 26 courses over 3 hours. Yes, 26 courses. Here is a smattering of some of the food we ate.

My favorite – Baby corn, scraped from the cob, smoked, gelatinized, and molded back to look like corn.

Melissa’s Favorite – Chilled tomato salsa like puree, wrapped in avocado. It really tasted like Guacamole, remarkable.

A “bloody mary”. Wow, this one packed a punch. That sliver of celery was infused with a lot of vodka, and covered in some tomato / tabasco shavings. A huge bang in your mouth.

More to come later, I have a really busy week with job related stuff, thesis related stuff, and moving related stuff. My, that’s a lot of stuff.

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My problem was that on long road trips, the coolant would disappear at a much higher rate. If I left from Boston at 10am, by the time I hit New Jersey around 3pm, the coolant indicator would be on and the coolant reservoir would be totally empty. This could be very dangerous and cause the engine to overheat, causing permanent damage and more importantly stranding me on the road. That would be a huge pain in the ass.

I’ve been reading around the interwebs and heard nightmare stories – A3′s apparently have a tendency to have leaky head gaskets and / or cracked cylinder heads. It is less than thrilling to have the engine of your 4-year old auto, just off warranty, dismantled and reassembled. The mechanic’s bill would make anyone cry. I was scared for my car.

Well, the resolution was a good one. This radiator was another casualty of I-93 and the shitty job the road crews did to clean up rock chips and asphalt while they resurfaced it last summer. While I worked at LogMeIn, I’d drive up 93, way too fast, on my way to work. For 2-3 months, the road was milled and shaved down, but not repaved. There was an unbelievable amount of debris on the road and my windshield was cracked in 3 places by flying rocks.

Turns out one of the flying rocks destroyed my radiator too.

The radiator. Obvious marks from dried / burnt coolant leaking for a long period of time. It was necessary to remove the radiator to see this damage. Two mechanics looked at it for estimates and couldn’t see the source of the leak.

Point of Impact. Probably a stone chip or bit of flying asphalt.

Wide open for easy access. The radiator is right behind the grille without any protection.

Another casualty of I-93 rocks. I’m going to need a new windshield soon.

My Sexy Librarian

The Chef

Check this out: replace your morning toast with a pita bread. It tastes good (my pita bread has high fructose corn syrup ! Yummy) and has a fraction of the carbs of two slices of toast.

My Morning Eggs

The Pita Bread makes a wonderful lid to help the eggs cook faster. Remember your Physics 103: Thermodynamics? The Pita heats up and keeps the hot air below it to cook the eggs. It also avoids folding the pita to fit it into a toaster oven.

A little butter, a little pepper, and voila! Delicious low(er) carb breakfast!

Amazing tunes from Devin the Dude, Snoop, and Andre 3000.

Just the MP3

Devin the Dude – What a Job ft Snoop, Andre 3000.