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. They [...]
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 [...]
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 we [...]
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: how to have a self abortion at 4 months This visitor’s IP address places them in a fairly small town in the middle of Nebraska, 90 miles from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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. [...]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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 [...]
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.