Hitting The Ol' Dusty Trail

I have finally migrated the blog over to a new host:

http://coffeestainedeverything.wordpress.com/


I'll see you there.


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Upgrading the Blog

A couple of things on this Fourth of July. The Higgs was announced, and apparently this happened as well. In more domestic news, today is Nikki's last day at Slover. She will be moving on and upward starting next week. My plan for the blog is to migrate over to word-press for enhanced functionality at the same price ($0). This will enable features like making the sidebar of Learnin's dynamically updatable. In anticipation of the move, and to make up for the fact that I've been promising to post photos for over a year, I'm working on a short movie about the apartment space and what my and Nk's shared life-day looks like. Also: guess what over the counter antidiarrheal medications are made of? Pepto-bismol = a heavy elemental metal Kaopectate = clay (formerly, now it is equivalent to pepto).

Back in Brooklyn for 1 week

Just made a new Frankenbeverage: Mexican bloody Mary crossed with a Basil Gimlet. It tastes like eating a pizza margherita and the aroma reminds me of Jamaica for some reason. This weekend out to hopkins to start classes. Until then working on research and watching an excellent australian sci fi series featuring muppets. Nikki and I will be re-upping our apartment for one year so I may finally get around to posting photos of it. Last night I electively did math for the first time in probably 15 years and learned that if you take a given cylinder and hollow out a cone with the same base and height that you're left with 2/3 the original volume. Far, far from revolutionary but it was very entertaining to think about.

The Strange and Fascinating School of the Internet

Things I've learned for free this week:(most Courtesy of Reddit TIL) That: -Once upon a time the Russians drilled a hole through the Earth's crust, just to see what would happen...it is the deepest point on the planet. - Miles Davis cooked what was arguably the world's greatest chili. (for Mom) - The story of the Bier block, is one of the strangest in medical history, and involves reckless self-experimentation and genital abuse. - that ~99% of a sample of the Down Syndrome population are happy with their lives when asked- a far higher proportion than people with only 2 Chromosomes #21. - the Caduceus (2 snakes on a winged staff) is not actually a symbol of medicine but of Hermes, the god of trickery and deceit. Rather, it is the uni-snaked staff of Asclepious that represents medicine, and the error is apparently a uniquely north american one. That is all.

Here is a quick experiment in Memento Blogging: Where if you hyperlink everything, it becomes like a little flip-book pun maze.

Things to come

Well, I'm surprised that Blog Protective Services hasn't snatched away this site due to neglect, and given it to someone who is a more consistent documenter of life. But since they haven't, I'll update it. Nikki and I now have a Soda Stream, a machine that let's you carbonate your own water for soda etc, thanks to a pile of neglected Macy's giftcards leftover from holidays. I just used it to make a 'Lapsang Souchong and Tarragon Julep', with a touch of smokey scotch. It somehow is good, and if I played with the balance of flavors a bit, might be worth making for people. For whatever reason I've recently been thinking up mixed drinks, almost entirely by accident. And this is happening despite the fact that I typically don't care for coctails. Some of this might be flavor creative blow-off from not brewing beer for some months because of space constraints. anyway, here is a link that you should click on: Today was a good day. made espresso for Nikki slept in late. Put public health lectures on my iphone and walked through park slope to downtown brooklyn. joined a credit union with Nikki. deposited 50 Euro left over from Italy to start them. The tellers were behind bullet-proof plexiglass. They were extremely nice and somehow pronounced my last name right on the first go just from looking at my license, something only 1 in 2.7 people are able to do. After that I walked to the, there's not another word for it -fabulous- , Brooklyn Public Library. There I paid a machine 26$ so that they'd stop sending me grumpy letters. The debt settled, I walked down sunny 7th avenue and bought baby herb plants from a rack in front of an organic food market run entirely by middle aged chinese women apparently. Basil, thyme, and lavender for like, $7...not bad. Got home, dropped the pots next to my sad looking, wounded plants who soldiered out the winter in our studio apartment under a compact fluorescent lightbulb. That includes a fig tree and olive tree somehow. Up the stairs, put on the absurd slippers I wear inside our home- hong kong knockoff plastic-y marshmallow looking fake crocs that I got at a 99 cent store...8 months ago. Anyway, long story short-er I made dinner with: [{Olive Brine^Thyme[Chicken]}: (parsnips,onion,yellow squash)/(Barley+thyme water)]x Pressure Cooker x 15-17 minutes = worth trying. descaled the coffee machina, cleaned up mess I made. mixed some earthworm casting 'tea' for the above-mentioned moribund plants- don't ask. Made the drink above as well. Resurrected the blog. Not bad.

New Year, New

Last few days a torrent of new music, books, and experiences. Discovered: and and