I was sent this fantastic article, set as a letter to the then-president-elect, on the food system in America ( Read more... )

I just got some crap spam mail from '2kbcustomerservice@gmail.com' saying ( Read more... )

Nudies 101

Yay, the December posts calendar is a checkerboard!

I submitted three maintenance requests; two which I'd meant to for a while (burnt out light and leaky faucet), and one that was somewhat more urgent. A chain in my toilet rusted through so the lever wasn't working. I didn't bother going to the front desk to report it since it wasn't a biggie, like, 'it's raining against gravity' - I could easily ( Read more... )

I made this bean salad with some substitutions, including using a small amount of lime zest in place of the citrus in the oil. It tastes okay, but whatever I'm eating right now is actually kind of annoying - the walnuts have scratched up the roof of my mouth, and it's hard to put your fork through the different components at once.

Monty Python does something about their being on youtube. They're extraordinarily nice chaps! No more crap-quality videos!

I don't know how to walk anymore; I just stumble.
The stairs to the apartment has become an inclined plane with tricky footholds.
It's warmer, but I froze the heck out of my digits while having Nitobe entirely to myself.


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I haven't seen the mountains in a few days.

Hopefully they're still there.

Some amazing slideshows by fantastic photographers. "GHG Photos is coalition of science, environmental, nature, and documentary photographers who have spent the last several years focused on the emissions and effects of those Greenhouse Gas emissions, as well as attempts to mitigate their release and adapt to the changing climate."

Jellyfish-like creature - long thin main body that trails little lures behind it (little red balls, seemingly). Photo there isn't quite the same as seeing one live; at first it just looks like some random debris floating around, barely visible, but further observation says it's actually alive and propelling itself.