My wife has been saying Do you cut like a buffalo? for a week now, and I finally saw the music video today. I must make sure I haven’t lost our White Stripes albums…
I saw 2012 the other day – hollywood trash, not unlike I expected. What annoys me though is when they have to spend so little effort and thought on it that you can’t even suspend your disbelief for the duration of the movie. I mean, all that havoc taking place, but radios and cellphones are [...]
There’s a fundamental flaw in this country with how wage, healthcare and cost of living are thought of, which becomes evident whenever we start having ‘debates’ over these issues.
We tend to forget that there is always going to be a bottom rung in the labor market. There are always going to be cleaners, maids, farmhands [...]
In this BBC article , there’s some new confirmation for what’s been bothering me for some time:
“Disinfectants could effectively train bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics, research suggests.
“Scientists know bacteria can become inured to disinfectant, but research increasingly shows the same process may make them resistant to certain drugs.
“Scientists in Galway found that by adding [...]
We’re not much of a gifting couple. We like to give, sure, and we like to receive, sure, but we never really want anything. Not really want, anyway. Partly because we’ve never lost that poor mindset of counting coins (which makes sense – we’re still not that far off the national poverty line). Partly because [...]
This morning I have been totally cracking up on Catherynne Valente’s description of the city of Augusta on: http://blog.catherynnemvalente.com/ – I most enjoyed the comparison of Barnes and Noble’s cafes to anal sex…. fantastic.
Richard Dawkins, the Evolutionary Biologist who coined the idea of memes and authored “The Selfish Gene” and “The God Delusion” – which is just simply brilliant – gave a speech on TED which I heard last week and very much enjoyed.
Dawkins is a confirmed, out-spoken atheist and in The God Delusion set out to criticize [...]
I’ve found a great chinese website with a recipe for rice wine, which I’m eager to try out. The recipe is simple and, according to the author, the home-brew method of his family; apparently all over China people brew their own wine. Awesome.
In China, rice is life. Its prepared as a sticky porridge – both [...]
A friend of mine just sent me the trailer to a movie coming out in October of this year, called the The Road. Its based on a novel by the same name by Cormac McCarthy, which I can testify was excellent.
Although from the trailer you can tell it will be significantly different from the book [...]
For a while now I’ve considered water the best solution to weathering out the zombie apocalypse. After all, zombies can’t swim, and as long as you stick to deep waters, they’re out of reach. Its also something that struck me while reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
The best solution to The Road apocalypse is the house-boat, [...]
