A revolutionary new sandwich
I’ll be the first to admit that the doughnut is a fine food. It tastes sweet, it is inexpensive, and it is available throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.
However, sometimes the doughnut is a little light. While certainly a power-packing treat, the doughnut may require assistance to qualify as a meal. For this reason, I have been recommending the doughnut sandwich (since January, 2005). The doughnut sandwich consists of a fine doughnut, flanked above and below by bread.
You will think to yourself, how the devil will I get a round piece of bread that neatly matches my doughnut? This is where this modern world’s other leavened torus — the bagel — comes into play.
Slice a bagel in half and slip a fine doughnut in between. You are now holding a doughnut sandwich.
January 5th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
[...] Many of Brandon’s blog posts are highly amusing (e.g., this and this), but what I actually want to point out is Brandon’s excellent and quite serious coverage of the Massachusetts OpenDocument initiative over the last several months. As he explains, this is an effort by the Massachusetts state (ok, commonwealth) government to switch all of its electronic documents from proprietary data formats, such as Microsoft Word’s .DOC format, to open standards such as OpenDocument. This move has been surprisingly controversial, and in the latest in a series of bizarre political machinations, the CTO of Massachusetts has been forced to resign, apparently because of his support for this initiative. [...]