I wish red wine tasted better, because it has all the health benefits. I'm drinking a glass, and wishing I had a white wine instead. Or better still, a nice nutty brown ale ( Read more... )

So I'm writing, tonight, having a beer, and watching Hell's Kitchen. And I'm actually getting offended by Hell's Kitchen. To punish the losing team, they made them butcher a cow. Now, these are all experienced chefs. And yet they're acting like this is the most disgusting thing they've ever seen. How messed up is that? Where do they think those ( Read more... )

I got sidetracked by some papers while reading up on Black Tail Deer life history, and started to read about the major nutritional stress that extreme latitude puts on people. After about five or six papers, I'm now throughly convinced I'm deficit in Vitamin D, C, and maybe a little iron rich. 'course, I don't have any data to support that, but a ( Read more... )

I am the king of procrastination. Today, I was supposed to have a test written, and then take a test. I started on either activity last night, which involves plenty of procrastination to begin with. Well, along with a measure of `forgetting about stuff ( Read more... )

The Weather is right,
Toffee pours smoothly when dry,
Let us cook today.

If a grad student asks you to give him a ride to the airport at 5:30 am, the answer is `no.` Just, FYI ( Read more... )

It's been about a week, but I'll pop back up here long enough to announce that my feet are cold. I do not like it. Send slippers and/or large hairy dogs ( Read more... )

I've been somewhat alarmed by how skepticism has got a bad rap these days. The Gradstudents who have their evolution topics course would be the first thing that springs to mind - yesterday, I pressed the group of them to start asking how they'd evaluate claims made by West-Eberhard, and whether her predictions were strong enough to warrant being ( Read more... )

Well, I want to try something with a bit of coffee in a sweet. But I need something to take the bitter off. So I thought, 'hmm! Mint extract. That'll do nicely.' But then I looked up the price of of mint extract around here, and for the first time, suffered an acute case of sticker shock. I was prepared for it to be high (a good general rule of ( Read more... )

I wonder what it'd take to get a Tim Hortons in Fairbanks. Hmm...