Time for another random musing.

I've been on the internet for way too long. It's good that I'm no longer using it at home (I'm quitting cold turkey). However here is a list of recent random stuff I was searching:

1. The first description nephrology. (Aretaeus of Cappadocia - he also came up with the term diabetes).
2. Housing styles in the United States from Octagonal, Italianate, etc.
3. NCAA tournament
4. Increasing productivity
5. Origami project
6. Oregon Nike project
7. Infinite pools
8. Travelling to Turkey
9. Meteora and other cool monasteries
10. Corfu and Santorini
11. Scrabble tournament
12. Design of the colliseum

Oh well, just looking at the list I will need to figure out to concentrate on the essentials.

Later,

J

Dinner

A and I invited Pascal and Kerri over for dinner tonight. Both Kerri and Pascal has quite a bit of experience in evaluating steaks. Kerri is from Iowa where her uncles owned a meat-locker facility, while Pascal used to be a manager for a restaurant. It was the first time for all of us trying the Omaha steaks. I thought it was pretty good, but I'm no steak connisseur. It was definitely a higher grade of steak than the supermarket and it is on par with some of the steaks I've had for weddings. But the best part for me was the cheesecake with raspberry (we bought it) with the special sauce.


J

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Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers

Hey Car Talk guys,

I have a puzzler for you guys based on a real life experience at the gas station. I bought 12.901 gallons of gas for 2.249 for a grand total of $29.01.

Here's the puzzle:
How many gallons of gasoline (DA.BCD) do you have to buy at $2.249 to come up with a total of (AB.CD).

Hope you talk about this puzzle on the air, especially since it has to do with cars rather than apples:)

JH