it's not easy being Roland, you guys

[researchgrrrl]

I love what a complex little guy Rollo is. Most mornings, he will at some point drape himself across my forehead and heave the most massive sighs to let me know how much I suck for not letting him out of the bedroom to inspect the rest of the place. (This position not only lets him communicate his despondency over my sorry state of ferret-based

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[fyrdrakken]

So I've been listening to podcast back catalogs at work, and last night was an episode that I thought you might appreciate in particular. I've been going through the adventures of ursulav as she and her boyfriend try out prepackaged food and weird things friends send them from far off places, and in January 2013 they reached The Civet Cat Coffee Episode. Not just discussing the coffee itself (and flailing over Indonesian cuisine included in the package), there was an excellent bit discussing other members of the weasel family in which Ursula described a rescue wolverine she'd seen on TV...

[fyrdrakken]

And then last week I listened to ep 106 Etrusca Forever! in which a beer was tasted that was brewed to a recipe extrapolated from molecular analysis of the traces left in Etruscan drinking and storage vessels. I thought of you when they started explaining the premise behind the beer. (I also started trying to remember which brand of absinthe was created by a molecular chemist who had analyzed the composition of some bottles he'd managed to acquire of 19th-century absinthe and retroengineered a recipe for pre-ban absinthe. Lucid, is it Lucid?)