Kara & Michael’s Blog

This morning, Michael and I had fresh bread because we programmed my new birthday bread-maker last night. It made one totally money piece of bread - the crust is chewy and flaky and the bread itself is light and airy. A picture for you:

Then we headed to the Department of Agriculture’s Open House. [...]

I’m proud to announce that 4d2.org is now available via my favorite Internet protocol: Gopher.
Feel free to jump down the gopher hole to gopher://gopher.4d2.org if you are using Firefox, Lynx, or another browser that supports Gopher. Our Gopher site is also available via HTTP if you’re using a browser like Internet Explorer that doesn’t support [...]

I have the good fortune to have my birthday in the very exact middle of the work-week, so I went to see my family this weekend.
But, business first. Michael and I have subscribed to a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, but subscribing to a CSA is a turn-of-phrase that basically means [...]

So, trawling through the server access logs, I find that one of our visitors this month happened upon our blog by typing the following into MSN Search:

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This visitor’s IP address places them in a fairly small town in the middle of Nebraska, 90 miles from the nearest [...]

Ethics and reasoning often find it hard to coincide.  I see this reflected in discussions about religion, politics, and since beginning to sort out my feelings about it, in diet.
I read vegan and vegetarian food blogs.  I do this because Michael and I eat mostly vegan and vegetarian.  It’s a choice we made from a [...]

This Associated Press story about the subprime mortgage crisis, entitled “Into the Economic Abyss” (apparently with a straight face), is one of the poorest and most irresponsible pieces of reporting I’ve seen in a while, and I think it pretty well reflects what’s wrong with the American media at the moment.
You can go read the [...]

I’m going to write about religion today. (”Oh boy,” I hear you saying.) I’ve had this sort of Grand Unified Theory of Religion for a while now, and I’ve never really set it down in print, so I’m going to do so here.
There are two parts to my theory:

Human religion and human spirituality are completely [...]

From the latest column by the lady who screwed up the title of “Something” last week:
“Oh, and all you Song Name Purists out there? I don’t want to hear from you — next thing you’ll be telling me ‘Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire’ must be called ‘The Christmas Song.’ Geesh.”
Oh, it’s on.  Heaven forbid [...]

Since I’ve been capable of reading on my own, I’ve been obsessed with picking apart morbid real-life tales.  Whether it was serial killers or the Holocaust, or the details of the Nanking Massacre, I was compelled to read and read.
Lately, I’ve been reading about Jonestown, Guyana.  You may not know them by name (I didn’t), [...]

1 packet regular instant oatmeal. Place in cup. Fill with flat Dr. Pepper to desired thickness. Eat.
It’s actually not as bad as it sounds and it was the best flavoring I had on hand at work for oatmeal. Nonetheless, it is making me feel a bit ill.