Fellow Gophers,
Every day, the sweet call of the earth grows in my heart.
Soon, as the days turn warmer I will find myself unable to
resist and will doubtless abandon you dear folks for truly
greener pastures. But weep not my Comrades! Soon enough, the
world will grey, birds will throw off their independence
for communal life, the land will become drowsy and torpid
and I will return to you in earnest.
To: tfurrows
I survived four Christmases at Radio Shack in my younger
days (this is the proper form eschewing the more low brow
"worked for four years") and I must say that the only fond
memory I have of that time is the Deskmate GUI. There are
still DOS versions of it that have lodged in a few nooks and
crannies of the InterTubes and I think for the sake of
completeness you aught to at least posses a copy! :-D
To: A Gopher Hole of Verisimilitudes
Your recent take on hatred: "Regarding Reviling Resentment"
I found refreshing and important. It is my feeling that when
we file entire categories of human reaction into bins of
'good' and 'bad' we're giving reign to the religio-moral
layer that has been impressed on most of us since birth as a
system of control. Quite rightly it is that when persons
dismiss an entire unsorted array of behaviors as 'bad' they
are missing the fact that every class of behavior humans can
express have been with us a VERY long time and are each of
SOME advantage to our personal survival under certain
likely-to-be-encountered conditions. Cheers!
On Prison Food:
Yesterday's supper featured a main course of beans and rice
from a recipe by Chef John at FoodWishes. In Korea,
"Eating Beans and Rice" is a euphemism for prison. In the
U.S. of course we achieve the same end by talking about
"Bread and Water". Are any of you aware of other food
descriptions from around the globe that are used to denote
incarceration?
On Coffee:
Can any phlog post be complete in these days without SOME
reference to The Crisis? In case the answer is "No", here is
mine. In the evening my wife and I enjoy a cup of decaff. I
realize some folks feel this instantly makes for crappy
coffee but HEAR ME OUT! Yesterday we ran out of the Good
decaff we LIKE to drink and only have a tin of low-budget
decaffeinated swill (or as we say "We're now out of Decaff").
We still have 2.5 quarts of almond milk left though I have
covertly taken to using powdered creamer [1] in mine to save
my lovely bride the same fate for as long as possible. <3 We
still have over a month's worth of ground caffeinated on hand
for our 2-cup-a-day habit. One fun additional fact, we use
a 1970s are electric percolator to brew our coffee and we
have an exact duplicate as a redundancy safety margin.
[1] Oddly, in the U.S. most "Non-Dairy" creamers will say
the 'Contain Milk' because of fuzzy USDA definitions.
Many of these products contain caseinates which are
compounds derived from milk.
