Pulled pork is now officially a thing. It’s on the menus of trendy cafes, restaurants and pubs. But pulled pork is even more fun to make. I now have six BBQs at home – an Ugly Drum Smoker, Kamado, Hark Smoker, Weber Kettle, Portable Weber, and a Weber Genesis (for emergencies). In the holidays I relaxed by cooking pulled pork, beef brisket …
Over the holidays, my wife and I baked a Tim Tam Cheesecake, not once, not twice, but three times! (Shout out to Kris who gave me the recipe – see below.) The Tim Tam Cheesecake takes the conventional cheesecake recipe and somehow manages to incorporate 2 packets worth of Tim Tams into the cheesecake as the …
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If you order a drink from any cafe, your drink will probably come in a Mason Jar. The Mason Jar was invented in 1858 by John Landis Mason. It was mass produced in the 1900s by the Ball Corporation, with its iconic name in cursive, and the words “Made in U.S.A.” Once used for canning and …
Pokémon Go has got people out into the streets looking for virtual monsters. The game uses the player’s smartphone’s GPS and camera to create a world of augmented reality. With Pokémon Go, our mundane morning train ride is now a quest. While standing in line for our bus, we can catch a Bulbasaur. During our lunch-hour, …
This year, 2016, Leicester City FC won the English Premier League. No-one saw it coming. Bookies gave them 5000-1 odds at the start of the season. If you and I had put $100 on them, we’d now have $500,000. What Leicester City’s Premiership win teaches us is this: there’s a difference between improbable, unimaginable and inconceivable. Leicester City’s win was improbable – …
The movie Inception (2010) was a world of dreams-within-dreams-within-dreams. It was impossible to tell what was dream and what was reality. One way of escaping the dream was to get yourself killed. By dying, the dream would be over, and you would wake up back to reality. But the dilemma was this: If you aren’t dreaming, you really …
In the USA they say math – “do the math“But in Australia we say maths – “do the maths“ In the USA they say ways – “we’ve got a long ways to go”But in Australia we say way – “we’ve got a long way to go” In the USA they say Legos – “the children are playing with Legos“But in Australia we say Lego – “the children are playing with Lego“ These are arbitrary social conventions which …
American Idol was one of the most successful TV shows ever. It lasted 15 seasons and reached 30 million viewers. James Poniewozik, New York Times, says that the secret was the judge Simon Cowell. Love or hate him, Cowell was the slap in the face for our culture of self-belief. For the contestants who say, “I believe …
My friend at Russelling Reviews just gave 5/5 stars to Captain America: Civil War. Without spoiling anything, in the movie, Captain America and Iron Man disagree over a key moral fact. Is the Winter Soldier a good guy or a bad guy? The Avengers have to choose. They’re either for him or against him. This divides the Avengers …
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My friend Steve is a big Bulldogs fan. So when the Bulldogs win – which sadly is too often – he says “we won”. In one sense, this is true. Because the Bulldogs are his team. The Bulldogs represent my friend. So the Bulldogs’ win counts as a win for my friend. But in another sense, this isn’t true. Because …
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