Fog drifts over the valley ( Read more... )

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Per request, here is the artery clogging goodness ( Read more... )

While I enjoy the facelessness of the internet for somethings, I find it quite frustrating that I cannot reasonably engage someone in a public debate on an electronic stage. Instead, I am bound to engage in kind of passive debate, arguing silently over the precise verbiage of a thing, providing edits, undoing revisions that someone has undone to ( Read more... )

I very recently tried tea that I can say without equivocation is the very best tea I have ever had in my entire life, and it got me to thinking. Having a refined palate isn't all it's cracked up to be ( Read more... )

Now, I don't watch 24, but in honour of the recent quote by SCOTUS Justice Scalia ( Read more... )

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I was making a batch of bread over this past weekend, and it occurred to me how cruel bread making seems if you anthropomorphize your yeast at all.

So. You have this organism, indeed a whole culture (heh), frozen in a kind of metabolic stasis. And you want to harvest the product of this culture's work. So, you bring it out of stasis, not only by ( Read more... )

Ah the smell of pork barrel spending...(old news I admit, but kind of funny ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was thinking about the idea that people do the best they can. It's a general observation that encourages us to not get mad or fed up with others, even when they seem petty, small minded, or uninterested. On some level people make the best decisions they are capable of. Not that they don't see a "better" alternative, but on some level ( Read more... )