So apparently some Southern Baptist dude has decided yoga is bad for your spiritual health.

So anybody else's first thought on reading this "Namaste, motherfucker!"?

Best. Door. Evah!

Brass and wood "pressure door" with iris, handwheel

wrod, Frank.

I am gronkified today - I first misread this headline:

MSNBC.com May Change Its Name: NYT

...to think MSNBC.com was changing its name to "NYT".

So apparently some Southern Baptist dude has decided yoga is bad for your spiritual health.

Must be a slow news day. A lot of evangelical churches have been saying the same thing at least since the Beatles went to India.

Well wishes, Sox.

Do people know the Soviet Union had a program to land a man on the moon? They never got their giant N1 rocket working properly, so they abandoned their effort and kept it secret for another 20 years....

Anyway, some cool photos of Soviet-era moon space-hardware:

Inside The Soviet's Secret Failed Moon Program

Apparently we will be updating a bunch of software at work. Luckily half my team is out, so I'm not horribly busy, but it will cut into internet time.

ION: Meat lovers! We have a brilliant barbecue place here down in Oak Cliff called Smoke. My friend does food pieces for our weekly rag and did one on Smoke last week. See if these photos don't make your mouth water. [link]

Here's a culture thing: my sister went a restaurant in Jamaica the other day, and her friend brought two plaintains and asked the waitress if they could fry them up for them. She said no. My sister wasn't particularly put out by the refusal, but she was put out because she couldn't get anyone to explain to her why they wouldn't cook the food they'd brought with them.

I laughed until I cried, because I couldn't see any reason why a restaurant would do that. Like, they default on the answer of "no", and you just suck it up and take it. Since then, she's asked at all the restaurants she's been to, and all three have said sure, they'd cook her plaintains, but I keep trying to tell her a) that's Jamaica, and b) that's exceptional. She still thinks restaurant A owes her an explanation.

This is why I can't take her anywhere.

I know Jamaican dining is different. I'm not going to ask a non-Jamaican restauranteur what's off the menu that I can also have (I realise I've even told tourists to ask hotels for back office food). I know we do that shit all the time. But, seriously? Your own food? That's not a rational expectation, even if some people will do it.

At least my father, King of the Land Of Do It For Me, thought she was being excessive.

I laughed until I cried, because I couldn't see any reason why a restaurant would do that.

Particularly since there could be health code violations.

ETA: Here I mean. No idea what the implications are for a Jamaican place.