Three years ago today, I predicted: "So, why is the above important? It means to get to herd immunity, something like 82% of people will have to get infected and of those that get infected, 0.4% will die. Then, we can calculate: Population * Percentage of People For Herd Immunity * Death Rate = Deaths … Continue reading Three Years After “Grim News”
Lackadaisy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffu6FG4YP4 h/t Short of the Week
Tight Rope by Leon Russell
Zuihitsu, 2023-03
Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here's this month's installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file. The right way is the hard way. Reimagine our world and create the conditions for human flourishing, which would necessarily involve self-determination, mutual … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-03
Zuihitsu, 2023-02
Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here's this month's installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file. It is easier to make a bad habit impossible than to not do the possible. Good thinking requires discomfort. Let your mind wander. Being … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-02
Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa
Lowering Our Boggle Threshold
"Paranthropologist Dr Jack Hunter, editor of the newly released anthology Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience, notes that psychical researcher Rene Haynes coined the concept of the ‘Boggle threshold’ to describe this phenomenon – “the point at which a researcher says ‘no I’m not taking that, I’m not accepting that any further, it’s too weird’.” … Continue reading Lowering Our Boggle Threshold
A Taxonomy of Hate
I have been thinking about what distinguishes misanthropy from various forms of X-ism, whether racism, sexism, classism, or some other thing. Various X-isms seem like special cases of misanthropy. Sexism is a kind of hatred of women. Racism is a kind of hatred of one or other races. When framed in that way, it occurs … Continue reading A Taxonomy of Hate
Dreaming by Dillion Fence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnzojthUtmU Earworm of the day, together with the Blondie version.
Chicken With Green Dumplings
Based on the recipe from Bill Neal's Southern Cooking. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pgs. 114, 117-118. Chicken 1 chicken weighing 4 pounds (1800 g), poached 1 medium onion, chopped 3 ribs of celery, chopped 1/8 teaspoon of pepper flakes 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon of thyme 2 teaspoons of salt … Continue reading Chicken With Green Dumplings
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