While I was eating, a rugged group on Bicycles, braving the rain, came up for some food.

Waiting for her order.

Pizza Oven at Cane Rosso
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas

Photo Courtesy Cane Rosso and Zoli’s
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I love the Deep Ellum location of Cane Rosso. Carroltton is an inner-ring suburb (like Richardson, where I live) and is in the process of using the DART rail, bike trails, and densification while re-inventing itself (like Richardson, where I live) into a more urban, up-to-date place to live, rather than the desolation of cookie-cutter homes vomited out across the cotton fields to the north. Which is a good thing.

When was the last time you set foot in a Burger King? Been a while? Well, in 2015 it’s “been a while” since a lot of American consumers have visited a BK, and for good reason. After all, the average consumer is not entirely clueless. And human beings in general are calibrated in such a way that they can inherently pick up on the sort of existential malaise your typical BK is now spewing into the atmosphere.

I don’t feel any burning desire to bash Burger King – but any fast food review that criticises a restaurant because of “existential malaise” – well that’s interesting. And true.

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor

Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear.