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Fresh salmon roe at Kaz’s!

By Shabbir | September 13, 2002 | Comments Off on Fresh salmon roe at Kaz’s!

Check out this note from Kaz: Fresh salmon roe is back in season! We get over-night express fresh salmon roe in sacks directly from the fisherman of the Quinault River, Washington State. We spend hours separating thousands of eggs from the sack and then marinade them in sake and soy sauce. It tastes totally different…

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By Shabbir | September 12, 2002 | Comments Off on 0716740265

I’m fascinated by diamonds, their history, and the history of the industry that provides them to us.

Subscribing to my blog

By Shabbir | September 11, 2002 | Comments Off on Subscribing to my blog

If you wish to receive notifications of when this is updated by me or when anyone else writes for it, put in a request in the comments. I’ll add your email and then delete it from the comments so that spambots can’t harvest it.

Got Blood?

By Shabbir | September 4, 2002 | Comments Off on Got Blood?

Ah, fall. That time of year when every young man’s fancy turns to football, the upcoming hockey season, and the safety of the nation’s blood supply.

Say what?

It’s true. We’re having yet another blood supply scare. They seem like they’re coming annually now. HIV, Hepatitus C, Mad Cow, and now West Nile virus has been found in the nation’s blood supply. If that hasn’t sufficiently scared you, you ought to check out ‘Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce’.


I have been to heaven…

By Shabbir | September 3, 2002 | Comments Off on I have been to heaven…

…and heaven is in San Jose, where there’s a little sushi bar called Michi Sushi.

Nursing home research

By Shabbir | August 25, 2002 | Comments Off on Nursing home research

Sarah’s grandmother in California needs a new facility during the rehab for her hip surgery. The current facility really blows.

I can’t tell you how hard this is to do this sort of research for a place on the other side of the country that I don’t know, and can’t return to very often except at great expense. And of course, I do product research as part of my job, but nobody’s grandmother suffers as a result of overlooking a detail in my evaluation of an e-mail vendor. There’s a lot riding on how well we handle this.

“How to be good” by Nick Hornby

By Shabbir | August 25, 2002 | Comments Off on “How to be good” by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby, the master of the light and ironic, has a very different creature in his new book, “How to be good”. It can’t really be enjoyed as a light comedy such as “High Fidelity”, as it’s implications are far too deep.

In this book, his characters careen between action and inaction, battered by bourgeois guilt. If you’ve ever walked by a homeless person and said to yourself, “What would happen if I took this person home?”, you should enjoy this book.

Required reading for a DC Scavenger Hunt

By Shabbir | August 18, 2002 | Comments Off on Required reading for a DC Scavenger Hunt

I recently ran a scavenger hunt for my company retreat. It was a lot of fun, but because I only had a few hours to let the teams solve the clues, I wasn’t able to do the really hard ones that require a full set of encyclopedias. Here are the books that I would have used, had I been able to make this so hard it required serious research.

New weblog software is up

By Shabbir | August 12, 2002 | Comments Off on New weblog software is up

If you’ve previously been to 3mouths, you’ll notice that this looks different. I’ve found some web logging software that’s much better than PHPNuke called Movable Type

We’ve imported all the stories and comments from the old site and brought them here. Please let us know if you find something amiss.

Diamond: Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

By Shabbir | November 30, 2001 | Comments Off on Diamond: Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

Diamond: Journey to the heart of an obsession is a history of the diamond trade by Matthew Hart.  Armed with a unique willingness to criticize diamond behemoth De Beers, Hart provides an entertaining look into the history of diamond mining, trading, and craftmanship.