Quainticity: Postscript I
(originally posted January 11, 200

January 12,2005

We regularly visit a new pasta restaurant in our neighborhood called Pasta Zio. They serve tea in a plunger device and provide a sandglass to measure when you should plunge the plunger. This is another example of what I mean by a “quainticity.”



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