PinnedWhat the Fuck is Wrong With You, Mike?Living with ADHD for 50 years has been wild. Hi! I’m Mike. I recently turned 50 years old, I’ve been an IT professional for about three decades now, I dropped out of school at age 15 (and again at 16, 17 and 32), and have lived in pretty much every…Adhd11 min readAdhd11 min read
PinnedHiking the Lerderderg Gorge CircuitWhen I left home on a slightly chilly Saturday morning, my only plan was “go for a walk somewhere” and I knew in the absence of any sudden inspiration, I was going to head in a Lerderderg-ish direction, mainly because in my head I love saying “Lerderderg” as if I’m…Hiking13 min readHiking13 min read
Oct 14, 2020Building a Better Wicking BedA cheap and low-maintenance garden bed for vegetables — Last year, I hastily assembled a basic wicking bed in my garden, mostly using scraps of stuff I already had lying about. I think my biggest investments were a length of slotted agricultural drainage pipe and a couple of bags of sand. If you’re stumbling across this article without any…Gardening8 min readGardening8 min read
Jul 1, 2019Coca-Cola SaladOne man’s attempt to recreate a bizarre-sounding recipe — Recently I saw a couple of people posting a recipe from and old cookbook, probably from sometime in the 1950s. It was short, and the title contained an unusual combination of things that don’t usually go together. Who’d usually associate Coca-Cola with “salad”? Putting aside issues with the stretched (but…Food9 min readFood9 min read
