Ghosthunters!

If you like pop-up books, games, and mildly spook-y stuff, I think you’re going to like Ghosthunters!, the 3D pop-up game by Brian Lee. Closed, the game looks like an ordinary large book. Open the covers, and an enormous pop-up somehow emerges. Players have game pieces and a spinner, which guides them up stairs, through [...]

Cleaning Up (Some Of) The Clutter

Some writings, scribbles and other random ideas I couldn’t turn into coherent posts. ****** 1) Nippon Telesoft, a Japanese company practically right around the corner from where I live, developed a Braille karaoke machine, which Stevie Wonder tested and liked. 2) If you’re in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo in August, check out the Jazz for Kids program, [...]

Red Velvet Cake

Jill celebrated her birthday! And she made this most delectable-looking red velvet cake on her birthday eve (I love that phrase)! A what cake? A red velvet cake! No, seriously, that’s what they’re called. I’ve been waiting for a chance to make a red velvet cake, and then I was going to write about it. [...]

Have Map, Will Find Vegetables

Oh now this is useful! If you’re in the Fifty Nifty United States, you can click on this map, and it will indicate vegetables and fruits in season for that particular month. Descriptions are included, and, if you can’t remember what you’re supposed to do with kohlrabi, links to recipes are there, too. You do [...]

Cream Cheese Berry Croissant Thingies

I tend to not miss much from the US until I go back for a visit. Right now, though, I’m furiously missing those croissants in a can. You know, the can where you peel off a strip, whack the can on the edge of your countertop, and then the whole thing opens with a most [...]