Lewis Carrol, blinded by science

Kirsten, my trusty blog friend from Enjoy Every Sandwich, pointed me in the correct direction when she suggested Jabberwocky as the source of the whimsical speech that accompanied the Protein Synthesis ala’ Hair video.
If you listen closely to the narrator, she refers to the poem through out the whole interpretive dance. My [...]

Thai… It’s what’s for dinner

One of my favorite Thai dishes is Swimming Angel (some places call is Swimming Rama). It’s fresh spinach leaves, peanut sauce and your choice of protein (chicken, prawns or tofu). I prefer chicken.
Lew grilled up some thinly sliced chicken this evening, seasoned with fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper. He made a batch [...]

Happy Halloween

For many individuals, Halloween is the season to celebrate squash. Zander is one of those folks– his zeal for orb-shaped, day-glo orange squash is legendary. It’s almost an obsession– finding the most perfect pumpkin for the application in mind.
He starts thinking about pumpkins early in the fall. This year, we had some volunteer [...]

Are you sitting down?

That’s what I asked Deadhead Girl when she telephoned tonight. Tee asked me to take him for a haircut! This is the same kid I had to drag to the salon last wrestling season (yes, almost a year ago), and that was only possible after the underarmor beanie deal didn’t stay on his [...]

Protein Synthesis — it’s feelin’ groovy

Rosie is taking Biology 100 this quarter at the local community college. Their current course of study involves protein synthesis. In her quest for knowledge, she ran across some groovy science videos.
For those who preached that interpretive dance and science didn’t mix, Rosie showed me the video that proves such nay-sayers wrong.
It’s 1971 at [...]

Saving tips from the edge of financial ruin

Back in August, Northwest Airlines made a huge gaffe when the company passed out a handbook,”Ground Operations Restructuring Q&A and Employee Support” to employees who received pink slips. The handbook included a section on coping with job loss which featured, 101 Ways to Save Money. Among the suggestions, from a company on the brink [...]

Why?

I’ve been pondering for quite some time the apathy we have, as a country, about the evidence leaked out concerning torture perpetuated by the U.S.. Besides the photographic evidence at Abu Ghraib, the stories of people being tortured by agents of our government have gone largely unnoticed.
How many people have heard of Ashraf Abdullah [...]

What kind of "Today" do you choose

You know that old saying, “Today is the first day of the rest of my life?” Yesterday, we could all state, “Today is the first day of the rest of my life, in a police state.”
That isn’t such a rosy statement, is it? It doesn’t have to be so, though, friends. [...]

Might as well run the FRNs through a meat grinder

$200,000 later, and Seattle has a new tagline, Metronatural.
I can come up with a few, and it doesn’t cost anything.
Seattle: We know what’s best for everyone else.
Seattle: Taxpayers’ money? Oh Yeah! [high tech toilets; loser monorail project; cost of bad cops]
Seattle:Metrocasualty
My favorite: You spent that $%#^& money to come up with [...]

Seattle Funny

From Beast Mom’s blog post Answer Me People:
15. Why does coffee cost so much? It’s BEAN WATER. Water with some bean bits in it. Beany water. Aren’t beans supposed to be one of the cheapest cash crops?