otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

As you’ve probably ready, Joel Stein has recently written an article in Time questioning the logic of the local food movement. He has added a fourth meal to the industrial, organic and hunted/gathered meals that Michael Pollan describes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The meal is prepared from ingredients that were shipped from more [...]

Years ago, friends started asking me if I’d taken up watercolors. I was completely confused at first, but then it was explained to me that if you searched for my name online, most of the top results included websites with paintings seemingly attributed to me. Not surprisingly, these weren’t my work.
They were the [...]

As most of you know, Joanne has been working as a freelance designer since March. We’ve been working on a professional site for her for a few months now. Between my job hunt, and Christmas, it’s taken a while, but everything is finally in place: I’m pleased to announce that Little [...]

It all started with the Sanford and Son post over on Aquarium Drunkard. Joanne and I were grooving to the smooth sounds of Quincy Jones, but we craved more. No, not more Quincy Jones. That would would have been the sensible option. No, dear reader, we wanted more cheesy television theme [...]

I’m a little late with my “best of” 2007 lists. It think technically you’re supposed to write these before the end of the year. Oh well, I’ve never really been one for following convention anyway. This is a list of the books that I read during 2007 that I enjoyed most. [...]