I've decided to make pickled eggs. I figure that if they're good enough for Moe's Tavern, then they're good enough for me. I've never pickled anything, but it looks like it's fairly simple. This was the recipe that I used:
12 hard-boiled eggs 2 pints of vinegar ½ tsp of ginger ½ tsp of black pepper ½ tsp of allspice
Place the shelled eggs in a jar. Boil the other ingredients and let simmer for ten minutes. Pour it into the jar and let it sit for a month.
Here's a picture of the finished product: I guess that I'll find out in a month or so how well it turned out.
The Devil knew better than to mess with Georgia, but apparently he's not shy of promoting his supporters in Oklahoma. This is a serious violation of the separation of crypt and state.
About a year and a half ago, we had discussions at Locusts & Honey about logicalconsistency in theological formation. One of the principles that I espoused was the Law of Non-Contradiction; that a thing cannot be both what it is and what it is not at the same time.
However, it has occurred to me that the Hypostatic Union of Christ may be a violation of this principle. Although it would not be a violation for an entity to be both human and divine (or any other two natures or components), it would be if the entity would be "fully" both throughout. A cake, for example, is composed of sugar, flour, eggs, and oil, but it is not and could not be fully sugar, fully flour, fully eggs, and fully oil simultaneously.
Which is not to say that I am rejecting the Hypostatic Union -- by no means. But it does appear, at first reading, to be a logical inconsistency.
You are Borg. You have one goal, which is to assimilate all of the cultures in our galaxy and add them to the collective. You prefer a life which is ordered and is without surprises which allows you to keep focus.
Contrariwise is photoblog filled with pictures of literary quotations tattooed on people's skin, including Saint-Exupéry, Vonnegut, and Sylvia Plath. It's a pretty cool idea. I thought about what literary quotation I might select, and pretty quickly settled on a scene from Douglas Adams' So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, in which Marvin the robot sees God's Final Message His Creation:
"I think," he murmured at last from deep within his corroding, rattling thorax, "I feel good about it."
The lights went out of his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
Luckily, there was a stall nearby where you could rent scooters from guys with green wings.
But all joking aside, I would never actually get a tattoo. It's a permanent, almost unerasable mark identifying a person. And if you're sharp, you always want to be able to, on short notice, disappear, assume a new identity, and never be seen again. Think of it as a private Witness Protection Program. And tattoos are a limiter on that ability.
Diary of the Dead is a documentary reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project. It is taken from footage recovered from a group of college film students in Pennsylvania. Compiled and edited by world-renowned zombie expert George Romero, it is an interesting exploration of how people respond differently to undead outbreaks. Here is the trailer:
The film highlights this critical component to survival in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; what I like to call "mental turn-around time". Some people, upon encountering attacking zombies, are able to rapidly adjust their worldview to accommodate the new, harsh realities of survival. More often, however, people cannot pull themselves out of the mall-shopping, frappiccino-sipping numbness of the suburban mundanity. This is why slow-moving creatures with less intelligence than cockroaches are able to slaughter and eat faster and 'smarter' humans.
Mental agility is the single-most important contributor to survival in the event of a zombie attack. The cameraman and his girlfriend are a study in contrasts of this factor. In the midst of the destruction of human civilization, Jason is most concerned about capturing events on film and posting the videos on his blog. While his girlfriend Debra seems to grasp the catastrophic nature of the risings, Jason is thrilled that his blog traffic has surged to gargantuan proportions -- until the collapse of the Internet.
If you want to survive, you have to have the attitude of survival. You have to be able to quickly accept catastrophic situations without panicking, but also without denying the reality of them.
Via James Joyner. I haven't explored Twitter, but as far as I can tell, it's like blogging in stream-of-consciousness. Personally, I don't want every thought that passes through my head recorded in permanent text. But maybe it serves some use. Gavin does it, so it must be a good idea at some level.
