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03/13/24

Weather: Sugaring season: 40's ish days, below freezing nights.
Mud season on pause as the roads re-froze a bit

Read on gef's phlog [1] a set of five questions to engage with.
Let's take a stab at them:

1. What is your favorite soup?
- currently it is pasta fagiole. Have a great recipe from the NYT
that builds a solid foundation. Using dried beans instead of canned
is is important, and I like using whole tomatoes (torn up a bit by
hand before going into the pot) instead of crushed as it tends to
leave nice size hunks of tomato in the finished product. Will have
to update the recipe box [2] with that in the future.

2. The collapse is near!  You only have weeks to download everything
you need to survive without internet, what would you download first
and why?
- Probably wikipedia? If only to be an archivis for arcane knowledge.
That or Project Gutenberg to make sure I had plenty of reading
material.

3. What is a dream that you remember most in your life, could be a
nightmare or beautiful dream.
- Perhaps not one specifically, but the set and setting of a
mountainous area, with ski areas, my old family's camp, and other
locations that have the vibe of places I have frequented in my
life but have different features than they actually had.

4. As the rain replaces the snow here, what are you most excited
about spring?
- Early spring is always a messy time, with the promise of cleaning
up from the winter but with weather waving a middle finger at you from
actually doing so.  So I suppose I am looking forward to surveying
the land for winter damage, taking down dead trees, and prepping
the garden.

5. The surface web is getting over-taken by AI and marketing, yet
there are very nice hidden gems online.  What is the most interesting
website that you go back to?
- professionally it would have to be the ANR Natural Resource
Atlas [3].  A treasure trove of data.  Otherwise, the folks at
100 Rabbits [4] and their associated friends do cool art, and
invent neat games (both computer and physical)

[1] - gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/questions/march
[2] - gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/smm/recipes
[3] - https://maps.vermont.gov/ANR/Html5Viewer
[4] - https://100r.co

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