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?"

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."

This makes me SO VERY HAPPY. (Umm, not that I've ever managed to actually keep passover properly myself, but still -- go team recognition that we are not the only Jews in the world!)

Huh. Alternate surgery incursion sites. Why not? At first I thought they meant you grew your own kidney in your....whatever and they cut it out of you and then transplanted it. Into whoever needed it.

Tonight I think I shall try the vegetable stock recipe with all the roasting. And maybe toss pearl barley into some of it for dinner with veggies in, and separate the rest and freeze soup for later. And of course make sure I have something reasonably healty for lunch tomorrow--the "Oops! I forgot my lunch!" things I have most available to me are not that healthy. Not without more research.

I did not know MTV.com was posting song lyrics. That I discovered when I tried to find the singer/title of this (not rickrolling, I swear--not even audio) earworm. They have a whole copyright agreement and everything.

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Huh. That means I can copy and paste them not for profit, right?

And then they link to a video--all they need is a link to buy the MP3, and voila! Great usefulness to having lyrics easily available on the web.