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By Erik Rasmussen

Crouton payload

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Crab salad
Cape Cod® salt & vinegar potato chips
Steamers
Pickled okra
Mexican
Sloppy Joes
Mojitos
Pulled pork
Lobster roll
Spring rolls
Garlic shrimps
English muffins
Egg sandwich
Ribeye on the grill
Thai
Scallops, various
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Chunky Monkey®
Clam chowder
Gravlax
Onion rings
Gyoza
Strawberry rhubarb pie
Jordan’s®
Cadillac Mountain® Imperial Stout
Turkey sandwich
Raspberries
Gjetost
Dark & Stormies
Key lime pie
BLT
Corn on the cob
Swordfish kebabs
Reuben
Anchor Steam®
Everything bagels
Burgers and dogs on the grill
Sweet potato fries
Malacca gin
Italian from Amato’s®
Black bean soup
Chili [...]

"Le Corbusier has a lot to answer for…"

So we’re now several days into November and welcome to it. As last year, we’ve pledged to post something on this site every day of the month, thanks to Fussy.org‘s OCD-enabling annual project called NaBloPoMo. Last year the obsessive-compulsive disorderliness got a little out of hand, so this time I’ve decided to be all super-mellow [...]

Random Friday: neuroses

A random piece of flotsam found around our place

Ever since being given a chemistry set at about eight years old, I have had an unnatural interest in laboratory glassware. Our measuring cup, for example, is a Pyrex® beaker, and the above photo was taken with the aid of a glass Petri dish which I was [...]

3×4: Daft baby clothes

Some still fit the old big clumsy one. Some are now returning to receive the drool of the new pudgy lazy one.

Na GloBloPoMo: end-of-term report

Here you’ll find what is surely the most original idea for a post on this, the last day of November.

Especially alert readers will have noticed that there’s been a new post here every damn day this month. This is because I accidentally signed up for an activity called “NaBloPoMo” or something similar. I am still [...]

List of Grievances

A friend writes: “Hey, do you have the list of grievances [...] anymore? If not, why not?” She’s referring to some notes I kept back in school about one particular fellow student who seemed to register for every damn class I was taking. I was easily annoyed during those years. Regard:

List of Grievances

Category [...]

Friday: search terms and links

If you sit still for some dry site management-related dross, I promise I’ll put some funny stuff you can click on down below as a reward. Or you can scroll straight down there. Probably already figured that out.

Search term analysis

Search queries that have recently returned www.isoglossia.com as a high-ranking result:

A reader in Rock Hill, South [...]

Lays and other readings

Magda fibrillates with anticipation at the thought of a box of books being shipped — through the mail! — from Poland just for her reading pleasure. I can relate to this; few things fill me with such a Christmas morning-y feeling as clicking on that Place Order button at Amazon. She is a bilingual [...]

Unordered lists

When that meme thing swept through I was uncooperative with my lists, so here I’ll do penance of a sort. These lists have nothing little to do with the questions in the original meme, but they are lists nonetheless.

1) For the first two years of life in our building we didn’t use the elevator at [...]