Veganomicon

Damn, I want that just for the name. And I'm not even a vegetarian!

My friend in Cleveland bought that cookbook. She is a vegetarian, though. Her license plates also say, "Cthulhu." Really. Deb got a HUGE kick out them.

Years ago I read the theory that cultivation began so folks would have a ready supply of the ingredients for beer. Is that theory still... around?

Um, sort of. I think the general consensus is that some form of cultivation (or at least management of wild resources) has to occur before brewing can happen, as the most likely way that spontaneous fermentation would occur is when storing crops. Proper beer needs a prior knowledge of malting, also, which again probably wouldn't be seen except in crop storage.

There's an increase in the growing of fruit crops that coincides with the beginning of centralised settlement which has been proposed as indicative of the beginnings of alcohol production.

This is fun. It's been ages since I've had to think about anything outside of Irish archaeobotany.

This is fun.

We exist to serve.

Ma Cherie Amour. Stuck in my head. Off to a meeting. Spork me now, dog, spork me now.

Oh crap. Tell me I'm smart! Quick! I think I have that Simpson's gene and I'm getting dumber!

You're smart! Smaht, even.

Wicked Smart!

Thanks! I'm reading a booklet called Protocol for Chemical Hazard Classification, and my brain is melting.

The booklet probably fits in one of the classifications it is detailing.

I think I may have survived today. Tomorrow morning's tests will give the final say.

I like sharing my office with only one person, but I really think all the necessary people (dev, test, ops) should sit in the same room for installations. Diagnosis of problems and fixes happened a lot faster when we were all there. But omg, exhausting.

And I think I found another problem, thankfully minor, just before I left. Ah well. It's going a lot more smoothly than I expected.

Protocol for Chemical Hazard Classification

That's not even English, is the thing.

Years ago I read the theory that cultivation began so folks would have a ready supply of the ingredients for beer.

Sumerian goddess of beer: [link]

More about the theory: [link]

The main arguments are that many of the early grains, like barley, were better suited to beer than bread; waiting for something to ferment meant permanent settlements; and beer!

Speaking of grains, I saw a package at the grocery store a few days ago labeled "Kosher for Passover only for those who eat kitniyot."

I always wondered how the rabbis sat down and dealt with which New World foods would be kosher. "I have studied and studied and I see nothing in the Torah about corn. Didn't G*d know about North America?"