July 15, 2005
I am a big fan of
Lifehacker. The other day, I read this article on how to poach an egg. See, I have a little doohickey, and it's supposed to be non-stick, but I buy big eggs, and they never fit in the cup space and run all over the place and it's not really non-stick so it makes a big mess, both of the doohickey and the pan its in.
So I thought I would try the method described in the Lifehacker find:
wrap the egg in saranwrap and boil the little packet. Total success! And mine turned out much prettier than the ones in the picture, too. No mess, no fuss ...
July 12, 2005
I took the
blogging survey at MIT. It was interesting, and I'd actually love to see their findings on the social status part of the survey - like, how many doctors do you know? bus drivers? lawyers? cooks? etc. But one part of the data that is accessible currently is broad demographics like age. Here's where I fit in:
July 4, 2005
Lots of people are posting the Declaration of Independence in the blogs today. I appreciate that; it's good reading. So is this commentary on the celebration of war:
"We are gathered here, friends," he said, "to honor lo Hoon-year Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war. It is customary on days like this to call such lost children men. I am unable to call them men for this simple reason: that in the same war in which lo Hoon-year Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya died, my own son died.
"My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child.
"I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. ...
July 3, 2005
There is no rational ground of any sort or kind in keeping a child ignorant of anything that he may wish to know, whether on sex or on any other matter. And we shall never get a sane population until this fact is recognized in early education, which is impossible so long as the churches are able to control educational politics.
- Bertrand Russell
"Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects", 1957 (p. 29)
