Went to a local Arab fest today. Kinda of neat to learn about cultures I know little about from immigrants who grew up in that culture. I'm not sure my priorities are everything they should be though. I was watching pretty girls dance on the stage, and then got distracted by a booth where a guy was showing off two bejeweled falcons. He trains his falcons and hunts with them. He uses traditional training methods and traditional equipment of the same design that has been used in the that part of the world for hundreds, maybe for over a thousand, years.

They wouldn't have pretty girls dancing on a stage if they didn't want you to be watching them.

Er my point is that I was distracted from the pretty girls by the falcons. There was a time when that would not have happened.

Also, something I did not know when I posted last night. There was a spoken Sudanese-Canadian spoken word artist Yusra Khogali who was supposed to perform at Olympia's Arab Festival tonight. She was stopped from entering the U.S. by a U.S. customs agent who told her she was trying to enter the U.S. to take part in a "violent" assembly.

I was at that assembly. I missed the opening speeches by Governor Gregoir and Mayor Bauxbaum, but I'm pretty sure neither advocated terrorism. There were dancers and fashion shows and traditional on the stage, and I'm pretty sure none of the performers were armed. There was Falafal, and Hummus and Schwarma and Baklavaa and none of that food was of poor enough quality to be weaponized. Neither was the Arab jeweler and crafts and clothing. OK, the falcons were kind of violent since they are used to commit violence against rabbits and ducks, but I'm pretty sure falcons are not weapons of war, and anyway, they were not for sale.

Ah, my mistake, the birds were more interesting than the girls. Still, bejeweled birds of prey are less common than pretty girls.

DH, just now: So where'd you find that egg separating trick?

Me: buffistas.

DH: it's like 42. The answer to everything.

We have an egg separating trick? Do tell!

We could probably come up with a whole thread of egg-separating tricks, but I'm not proposing it because a) bureaucracy and b) clearly, CLEARLY, belongs in Minearverse.

So, what egg-separating trick?

Is it the one with the bottle? I've been meaning to try that. does it actually work?

I just put a bowl under the eggs and tip the yolk back and forth between the shells to let the white separate. Works well for me.

It totally works! This may not be the original link but it gets you to the vid. [link]

Also - SCIENCE!