Gluten-free what?

I bought this kit in Amsterdam and put it together a couple weekends ago. This is the front of the box. On the top right corner, second line, it says "water soluble cement – gluten free". So if a person eats the cement, it won't trigger a gluten allergy. But perhaps eating cement in the …

Will they really eat anything?

If you work in an office, you know the rules about food left in common areas. If it doesn’t have a note attached saying “don’t eat this,” then it’s fair game. Good stuff will be gone in seconds. There was one time when I was working in my company’s Chicago office, in the Loop. I …

My crazy iPhone GPS

This post goes into the category of “curiosity-inducing but not critically important.” I’ve been noticing a strange behavior with my phone’s GPS. It’s an iPhone 4 on AT&T wireless. Sometimes when I land after a flight, the phone thinks I’m at a totally different airport. The first time this happened to me, I landed in …