Things You Forget About When You Don’t Bother Having A Website For Years

Comment spammers.
You forget that they fall somewhere between “serial killers” and “those annoying earnest little twerps trying to stop pedestrians so they can raise money for what I’d consider mostly good causes if they weren’t hiring these twerps” on the scale of people who the world would be better off without.

Update: Look what arrived on this very post two hours later:  “I frankly knew about many of this, but in spite of this, I still considered it had been helpful. Very good job!”  From an IP in Germany! With a link to some stupid site that I’m not going to!

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Welsh Red Dragon

Since my plan to sample every cheese in Monty Python’s Cheese Shop sketch (in order, duh) has been foiled by the seeming unavailability of Red Leicester on this side of the ocean, I had to improvise at the grocery store this morning. The Welsh Red Dragon looked like a pretty good substitute – a sort of crumbly cheddar with ale and mustard seeds. (The cheese is called Y Fenni in general, but when it’s made in a red wax shell, it’s called Red Dragon in honor of the Welsh Flag.) The first bite is a little weird – I don’t recall every having eaten mustard seeds directly before – but it really makes a nice little spicy flavor and a delicious aftertaste. It’s rare that I meet the cheese I don’t like, but I liked this one a lot.

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Better Than Yelp

A bunch of third-graders write up a trip to Pizzeria Regina in the North End*. Not one of them feels the need to preface their remarks by telling us they used to live in New York, so they know what they’re talking about.

*Too bad they didn’t take the kids to Bova’s. That place is awesome.

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Midpointin’

So this is a pretty fun map tool.

You plug in a bunch of addresses and it shows you where their geographic midpoint is. So if I plug in every place I’ve lived since 1995 (even those 2 months in Malden with the worst upstairs neighbors ever), I find out the midpoint is in East Watertown. If I just do every place since I moved into MBTA range in the summer of ’98 (at aforementioned house of horrors), the midpoint moves to a place just north of the Cambridge Public Library. I think I like that.

You can also enter two addresses and it shows you where you can meet up for lunch. Well, what neighborhood, anyway.

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Here’s Something to Look At While I Figure Out What To Write About

I updated my county map, after this summer’s Salt Lake City-Boston-via Yellowstone massive cross country road trip (click for a bigger version):

My County Map

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Oh, hi, I didn’t see you come in

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