I finished the spice racks ( Read more... )

102.7F

Do you want to know what philosophers think?

Now you can.

Of course, you'll need a dictionary, or maybe just Wikipedia's Philosophy Portal.

Remember: only 30% of them would accept a million dollar offer to admit their math is wrong or incomplete (see the numbers on Newcomb's problem).

People keep asking me where to buy a pullup bar.

here.

Well, the pickles didn't work out.

The kittens are damned cute.

Molly's curled up in a ball.

I need to start a new batch of sauerkraut.

And the kombucha's flourishing. I'm starting to collect it in the fridge for drinking.

How're your nonsentients?

[5] "WHERE DOES FOOD COME FROM?" Dill Pickle bike ride 10/16
[http://cnrg-portland.org/node/12744]
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On Friday, October 16, the Dill Pickle Club hosts our final field trip of the
season, WHERE DOES FOOD COME FROM?, a bike tour to local food production sites.
The tour will make stops at Bob ( Read more... )

Having just read/skimmed far too many reviews to link to (check Rotten Tomatoes if you need a bunch), my sense is that the movie is probably bad. Most of the reviewers prejudged the book as romance/chick-lit, and then viewed the movie as the same, badly done. Many of the male reviewers see the movie as a chance for women to complain about absent ( Read more... )

There are different types of reality TV. Today I realized that one of the types, several examples of which I've liked, isn't just trash-awesome, it's awesome-awesome. It's expert-mediated disaster mitigation. In it, an expert takes on situations that have gone past bad into disaster, shows how to turn it around, and then often returns to see ( Read more... )

As a followup to Keturn's post
The idea of currency that encourages transaction (as opposed to hoarding) has come up repeatedly. In the immediacy, the idea seems to resemble a massive increase in the inflation rate, which is generally understood to be bad. Here's a rosy description, though: (From Rushkoff's Edge essay

People brought grain in from ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just the feeling in the air, but I suspect that a tupperware is hard party is less attractive than a naked person party. After all, fewer naked people? I'm okay with that. It's a slow day, though the party's still on if you want it to be. So I thought: lids don't take up much space ( Read more... )