An appraiser came over today to evaluate the house and see if crazy-ass Brooke is justified in receiving $325,000 for it. He was asking some questions about the house and why it was priced at that and what we’ve done to it and blah, blah, blah. I wasn’t sure how much I was actually allowed to say to him and just directed him to my mom. When I told him her name, he got all excited and said he knew her, that he had bought his first house from her and talked about how nice she was. When I told her later about it, she remembered him right away and guess whose house he bought??? Rian’s (Julio’s mom). Weird.
I’m currently obsessed with watching all of the Pocoyo videos, he is so damn cute.
Bonus, make sure to follow the “Hard Gay” trail under Pocoyo’s favorites.
My grandmother is always on my case about getting enough calcium due to an abundance of arthritis and osteoporosis in the fam. She’s one of those who thinks my vegetarianism is unhealthy. Because I’m not getting all the nutrients I need. Ahhh, old people.
I was delighted to see that today’s Vegan Lunch Box post points to an article which suggests that plant based diets are actually beneficial in preventing and treating joint damage. I, of course, forwarded it to her right away.
This little robot is trying to steal my robot name. Well, he spells it differently, but… there can be only one iso.bot!
Which reminds me, at Target recently I saw some headphones called iso-buds. I was tempted to get them just because of the name, but really don’t need any headphones. (Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I exercised buying restraint.)
Which fat is the best fat for frying? I stay away from animal fats for obvious reasons, preferring instead coconut or canola oil. Chilean shock-artist Marco Evaristti wanted to try something a little different. He underwent liposuction and saved his own fat to play with.
He cooked up 48 meatballs in the fat and served them to friends atop agnolotti pasta at a gallery in Santiago.
“The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result,” he said, explaining the point of his creation.
“You are not a cannibal if you eat art,” he added.
The remainder of the meatballs are to be canned and sold for $4000 dollars for 10.
(* those who know me well enough know what i’m talking about )
My all-time favorite airline, Virgin Atlantic, wants to start doing domestic US flights (Virgin America), but they don’t have approval from the U.S. Dept of Transportation yet. You can help by signing the petition at letVAfly.com.
- Plastic Little - Get Close (King Honey Remix)
- The Knife - Kino
- Plywood 3/4 - Travailler Dans Le Beurre
- Busdriver - Less Yes’s, More No’s
- High Priest - Keep Time (featuring TV On The Radio)
- Glue - In Between Her
- Glue - Never Really Know
- RJD2 - Get It
- Psalm One - Standby (featuring Brother Ali and Ant of Atmosphere)
- Fink - Good Day For Hippos
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Little Monsters
- DeVotchKa - The Last Beat Of My Heart
- Gogol Bordello - Through the Roof ‘n’ Underground
Dr. Jerry Payne’s time lapse movie of the decomposition of a baby pig. The technique of time-lapse photography is employed to illustrate the rapid removal of carrion (4 days reduced to approximately 6 minutes). The film demonstrates the sequence of tissue destruction and the role of insects in the ultimate dismemberment of the pig carcass and soil movement. The pink and purple beads were added to show the intense activities of the insects in moving the carcass and soil. Succession is the idea that as each organism or group of organisms feeds on a body, it changes the body. This change in turn makes the body attractive to another group of organisms, which changes the body for the next group, and so on until the body has been reduced to a skeleton. This is a predictable process, with different groups of organisms occupying the decomposing body at different times. In his landmark paper, published in the journal Ecology in 1965, Jerry Payne detailed the changes that occurred during the decomposition of pig carcasses that were exposed to insects, compared to the changes in pig carcasses that were protected from insect activity. This work built on and refined studies conducted almost 70 years earlier in France by Megnin. Megnin recognized nine stages of decomposition, but Payne recognized only six, introducing the system currently used by most forensic entomologists. Payne further emphasized the great variety of organisms involved in the process, recording over 500 species. Payne also conducted other experiments, including studies of submerged carrion.
I just had to turn the heat on because it’s 55° in the house. Of course it will probably be hot again tomorrow. Stupid non-winter. Jules had to go to Taphouse last night and I rode with him on purpose just so I could get cold riding in the Jeep and have to wear a hat and gloves. It was nice.
