10 Things We’re Doing Besides Cooking Up Something Good

erica’s things

• Itching to plan an apple-picking adventure. Remodelista has some awesome-looking orchard picks around the country.

• Trying out the super-cool Coast—which bills itself as “the browser that should have come with the iPad”—that I discovered via Sight Unseen.

• Keeping some homemade arugula pesto in the fridge. Next time I’m gonna try the freezing-in-an-ice-cube-tray trick.

• Taking a nice long ride down Clueless memory lane, thanks to this if-Cher-was-on-Instagram Buzzfeed story and this HuffPo post on the site of the Valley house party (which happens to be for sale).

• Falling hard for the HIGHLY entertaining science writing of Mary Roach. I just finished Gulp—subject matter: the gastrointestinal tract—and am already diving into Stiff about, um, cadavers.

claire’s things

• Telling Sade to watch her back because Willow Smith is coming for her with her latest single. (Yep, British accent and all.)

• Crying-laughing at the story of the fake Burlington Coat Factory twitter, via The Cut.

• Having my mind blown by this peek inside Lisa Frank’s personality and HQ.

• Hoping anyone with a startup (or dreams of a startup) reads this well-written and thoughtful post-mortem on Sonar, a now-defunct former darling of the tech scene.

• Updating you on the latest in my ongoing popcorn addiction: I’m now making my own microwave version, thanks to Mark Bittman’s tutorial.