with cheese on top!

At work the other day we had chicken wrapped in bacon. but it was TURKEY bacon. I felt so cheated.

That is just wrong like a wrong thing.

ION, I tried to microwave a slice of Morningstar veggie bacon and the plate exploded. Proof that there's just no there there.

I want a time machine to go to the Paris World Expo of 1900

I've wanted that for years, but that's because the Paris expo is where Henry Adams saw the dynamo [link]

From "The Virgin and the Dynamo"

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Adams had looked at most of the accumulations of art in the storehouses called Art Museums; yet he did not know how to look at the art exhibits of 1900. He had studied Karl Marx and his doctrines of history with profound attention, yet he could not apply them at Paris. Langley, with the ease of a great master of experiment, threw out of the field every exhibit that did not reveal a new application of force, and naturally threw out, to begin with, almost the whole art-exhibit. Equally, he ignored almost the whole industrial exhibit. He led his pupil directly to the forces. His chief interest was in new motors to make his airship feasible, and he taught Adams the astonishing complexities of the new Daimler motor, and of the automobile, which, since 1893, had become a night-mare at a hundred kilometres an hour, almost as destructive as the electric tram which was only ten years older; and threatening to become as terrible as the locomotive steam-engine itself, which was almost exactly Adams’s own age.

Woohoo! The last of my freecycled things has been picked up! All the big junk is out of my apartment! I kind of have actual space here!

flea, any way you can visit Singapore before you decide? FWIW, I understand it's very Western-friendly and quite law-abiding (enforced with caning and tough law enforcement techniques).

I don't know that Singapore's caning practices are necessarily going to be a comfort to someone looking to travel to the country with children. I know that guy in the super-high publicity case was almost an adult and should have known better, but how does the strictness of the policy scale down for the sort of mischief preteens are often prone to?

From "The Virgin and the Dynamo"

I have no idea what sort of story this ACTUALLY is, but it SOUNDS like it ought to be a dirty dirty story about a virgin and a fucking machine or something.

OOoooh! I may be able to go herping in NH tonight! Now to scramble to get various things moved into place to make it so!

herping?

Is that like birding with snakes?

(and if so, COOL)

It's salad weather! (76 inside and out and I'm wearing a short sleeved shirt and pajama shorts for the first time this year.)

After I finish the salad, I shall make it even warmer inside by vacuuming. Fun.