Having now lived for a few decades in parts of the United States and Canada where cooking was treated quite seriously, and having actually employed personal chefs, he was fascinated by the mid-western/middle American phenomenon of recombinant cuisine. Rice Krispie Treats being a prototypical example in that they were made by repurposing other foods that had already been prepared (to wit, breakfast cereal and marshmallows). And of course any recipe that called for a can of cream mushroom soup fell into the same category. The unifying principle behind all recombinant cuisine seemed to be indifference, if not outright hostility, to the use of anything that a coastal foodie would define as an ingredient.
REAMDE, p. 219-220
Opposite of Courage is Conformity
I really enjoyed the Joe Rogan podcast with Rickson Gracie. While I’m certainly not the Rickson nuthugger that a lot of jiu jitsu enthusiasts are, I enjoyed what he said in the following clip, summed up by what he says: “The opposite of courage is conformity.” I don’t know if it’s necessarily true, but it’s an interesting philosophy that, if kept in the back of your mind, might enhance your life and make it a little bit closer to what it could be.
Google Knows EVERYTHING!
Another reason to get rid of my gmail account. Please, if someone has an alternative, with a couple of gigs of storage, https access and preferably some encryption options, let me know. Willing to pay!
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Dank je wel, mamma. Dank je wel, pappa.
“Atheism”
I’m getting tired of people suggesting that atheism is a belief in the same way that faith is a belief. Atheism isn’t a belief, it’s an absence of belief. The word “atheism” shouldn’t even exist, just in the same way that no word exists for “not a fireman”. Or “not a believer in astrology”. Religious normativity has labeled atheists as believers because they idea of not believing is so far removed from the norm that it’s considered impossible. Atheism isn’t a thing, and labeling yourself as one opens you up to that type of false criticism.