Listics

My morning blog immersion carried me through photos of Bleecker Street by Ronni Bennet, store by store, shop by shop, each one with a comment about the nature of the business, the quality of the goods, and personal anecdotes from Ronni who has lived in this neighborhood for over twenty years.

I also visited Liz Ditz, who splits her time between the place in Sun Valley and her home in Woodside (what a life), and who commented kindly on my blood-thirsty post about killing all the feral kitties in order to get the songbirds and wild weasels back.  Liz pointed me toward Ray Girvan’s "Apothecary’s Drawer" where I rummaged for a bit, charmed by the Babbage and Lovelace essays,

The phenomenon is not merely one of learning to copy natural methods.

Biologist Mr Stephen Jay Gould has memorably described the cloud of pollen from
a tree as "raining floppy disks", and this view of Nature as information
(utterly alien to the scientific paradigm of Babbage’s day) is reshaping the
endeavours of humankind to emulate those of natural creation.
   
         Confused and dazzled by such complexities, Babbage
took refuge in observation of humble lichens within an ancient oak wood in the
Devon of his boyhood. When, however, one of these enigmatic plants defied
recognition, he sought enlightenment in an Antwerp database. In pursuit of the
Norwegian Bryoria smithii, it occurred to him that the branching hierarchy of
this botanical key replicated the evolutionary and taxonomic classifications it
described. And beyond, the global web (the key being but a small part) has
itself developed to become like an evolving organism, driven less by its makers
than by Mr Darwin’s laws.

Ontologically sated, I decided to ego-surf my referrer logs and found a reference to my cheezy post about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Cheez.  Following the link backwards I found this page, and naturally I had to read the article about food blogs.   It was there I learned about Meathenge,  an effort that reminds me a bit of Bacontarian.com, but in truth Zuckerman focuses on pork whereas the Biggles family and the Meatheads share their experience around all things meat.  The SF Gate article provides a nice short list of Bay Area food blogs.