Sep 11, 2019 20:10
The youngest reports: "Sometimes when I move my head, I think I see an animal out of the side of my eye, but I never really do."
Everyone at the table agrees that this is a thing that sometimes happens.
"Why do we see fake animals in our eyes?"
The adults produce the obligatory reasonable but unknowing bullshit -- contrast, peripheral vision, head motion, the role of expectation in structuring sense, blah blah. But mostly I just like the use of the term "fake animals" for things you see out of the corner of the eye.
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We never finish the coffee in the morning. It sits in the french press for a day, sometimes two, rarely three. If we are feeling enterprising we put it in the microwave. In any case I'm told that this is now called "cold brew".
I was thinking I would normally draw a limit if I saw colonies of mold beginning to form on the surface, but I realize now that this could probably be classified as some sort of coffee version of kombucha.
Hippies are fucking disgusting, but I guess they have a better excuse than merely being lazy.