What a weird time to be alive.

I'm glad that I've never tried to be anything other than what I am, even if being that has cost me.

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There are no fairy tales. I use to believe in them until I realized that they were mainly composed of a very simplistic plot manufactured to showcase moral righteousness, wherein an unethical hag is rolled down a hill inside a spikey barrel, usually into a river for good measure. The happy ending with the protagonists is universally lacking in ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to get my food blog up and running for some time now, as I claimed my blogspot account ages ago. I truly intended to spend more time polishing it up and making it spiffy looking but realistically, it's just some place online where I can go to blather about cooking and baking and where my friends can find my recipes.

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I quite enjoy this portion of the Brokencyde wikipedia entry, and that no one from the band or label has bothered to dispute/"correct" it:

"Metal Edge Magazine has called Brokencyde "fucking horrendous".[10] Thrash Magazine has called them "a mockery to the world of music".[11] Another metal magazine, Decibel, has repeatedly made fun of the band, ( Read more... )

My Tramontina 6.5 qt. Dutch oven arrived for pick-up today, so I made the trip to the Unidentified Circle of Hell (Oakland Walmart) to retrieve it.  The UCH was especially torturous on the 4th of July, which I had readied myself to face but still truly was not prepared for.  Nonetheless, I picked up my order as well as $100 worth of random other ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

"Thiel's philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection. The theory would also seem to be proved correct in ( Read more... )

I cracked open a two-yolk egg today and fried it. There's something magical about eating two unborn chickens from a single shell. Apparently it happens in about 1 out of every 1,000 eggs and with greater frequency in jumbo sized eggs ( Read more... )

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For what it's worth, I might play some guitar after work tomorrow evening.