Kobayashi and the dumplings

August 13, 2005

Today, he wins the dumpling part (83 in eight minutes) of the Hong Kong contest, and tomorrow competitors will line up for the pork buns. Which will probably not slide down as easily as the dumplings did.

Elvis DNA: suspicious minds

There are those who believe the King is still alive, which must mean the fried (in olive oil, not butter) peanut butter sandwiches are only a sometime treat these days.

So if it’s true that he never left the building, so to speak, then the greatest Elvis impersonator is that guy in the casket.

the sky diver and the storm cloud

The group of divers thought the storm was moving in the other direction, but suddenly it shifted their way. One diver became trapped in the fierce winds of a storm cloud, pushing him up.

pond swooping

Take one sky diver, add a high-performance parachute that allows speed to build up during the dive. Add one pond. As the diver lands, he scoots across the water at a very good clip. Not much room for error.

lambic beer, a Belgian specialty

It’s an old beer, the kind in Brueghel’s paintings of peasant feasts. The secret to its complexity lies in the quantity of yeast strains and bacteria used in fermentation, plus the long aging time.