My mother mailed me a letter -- a copy of one she sent to Northwest Airlines.  I'm putting my award-winning typing skills to task before bedtime, because this story is strange, entertaining, and interesting.

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Dear NWA,

Our trip to Orlando, Florida and our cruise through the Bahamas to Freeport and Nassau were cut ( Read more... )

This restaurant (shown in video format) basically stands for everything I'm against - regarding food and health and lifestyle.

This article was interesting, though I would be afraid to structure our society based on insect social structures.

I had a chuckle thinking about bugger sci-fi novels (Ender's Game, Starship Troopers), and our hydrocarbon hungry society.  Wouldn't it be a riot if our hydrocarbons mimiced a stellar bug society's love chemicals, and they invaded / ( Read more... )

I've observed children in the past month.  A recap:

My first cousin has three daughters -- ages 8, 6, and 3 or so.  I found myself enjoying watching them play, which was strange for me, as usually, I try to avoid children.  The 8-year-old asked me how we were related, so I explained our family tree.  It was strangely satisfying.  This one has an ( Read more... )

"The mission of the Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R.) Program is to become the premier epidemiology, clinical, and translational research center for clinical enteric neurosciences in the world."

Honesty in science: a bunch of people with their heads up their ass.

This story makes me feel sad.   I'm afraid that 10% of couples have magical, special brains, and that 90% of couples are doomed.  :(

On a related note, I listened to the Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons.  It made me feel sad.  Benjamin lusts after a beautiful chick and has a happy marriage... for a while.  But, after he gets "younger" and his wife ( Read more... )

For supper tonight, I prepared vegan comfort food: potatoes and spinach, stuffed in a pita.

Ingredients:
1 large potato, skin on, halved and then sliced into 1/4 inch slices
1/2 bag or 1 bunch of spinach, chopped
1.5-2 tsps freshly, coarsely ground cumin
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/4 tsp ground red pepper (if you can handle heat, you might like more)
a few ( Read more... )

I hung out with Simonne on New Years.  I am grateful for my friendships -- they sustain me.  We girl-talked, life-talked, made blossoming-flower tea, saved chunks of the yule log, banged pots at midnight, put off projects so we could talk some more.............. it was good.

A large chunk of our evening was spent pouring over Simonne's ( Read more... )

My armpit fuzz disturbs my family -- enough so that they tell me to shave.  :p   It seems to me that what sorts of body hair one has is a very personal matter.  It's not something that should be discussed in committee.    Furthermore, if it's okay for my dad to have armpit hair, it should be fine for me to have it, too.     

I've had a great time with my family.  My sister and father picked me up from the Devil's Lake airport at midnight last Monday.  My flight had been delayed by nearly 7 hours, so I was fairly fatigued after the long flight.   At the DL airport, I was awed by baren landscape.  The wind was blowing snow from large drifts.  It was minus a bazillion ( Read more... )