Replaced Antec power supply in HTPC with OCZ Modxstream. The larger 135mm fan on the new power supply is a lot quieter which is essential on a HTPC.
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Propolis is actually helping to alleviate my persistent cough. I’m not going to say “cure” until the week’s over.
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Wow, $120 to register for the San Francisco Marathon! I guess it costs a lot to shut down all those roads.
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Enjoy seeing the SmugMug logo on their office on my daily ride to work.
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“It looks like his penis has a hairdo!” E’s comment upon seeing a picture of Michelangelo’s David for the first time.
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Driving through intermittent torrential rain takes a lot of concentration.
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I read this Organic Gardening article about farming in Kauai, and the most interesting part to me was the information on taro. The taro root serves a similar position to the potato in Hawaiian cuisine. In Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, he describes how there were hundreds of different varieties of potatoes created to adapt to the many different growing conditions in Peru. There were also hundreds of taro varieties created in Hawaii for different environments. A disturbing trend that’s mentioned in the Organic Gardening story is how the many varieties of taro have been supplanted by only one high-yielding modern hybrid. This taro variety produces more, but it needs a lot of fertilization. The problem is that, just as with the potato, this lost of genetic diversity could lead to a wipespread wipeout of the main foodcrop. In addition to disease resistance, there’s also probably a loss of the many different flavors among the hundreds of varieties of potatoes and taro.
Although the only use of fermented potatoes I could quickly find is in the production of vodka, many Hawaiian natives prefer fermented taro. The article has a vivid description of 2-week old poi (mashed taro) with a fuzzy layer of white mold on top which is stirred into the poi. This fermentation provides a source of beneficial bacteria to the Hawaiian diet. I wonder why potatoes aren’t fermented for probiotic reasons.
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Liked Kim Yu-N’s blue princess outfit, but I loved Mao Asada’s red and black fire demon outfit.
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Didn’t know Boner was Chekhov’s son. http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b168878_cnn_offers_prayers_koenig_family_in.html
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Potato plants sprouted. Snails cut down my flowering peas. I’ll have to put up a copper barrier. Plum and peach trees are flowering.
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