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Steve Gerber is dead

i own this book if ya wanna see it

This guy was an unsung genius.

An obit

Brassica soup

via Plastic

3 heads broccoli, freshest
1 head cauliflower, freshest
1 turnip
3 large carrots
1 yellow onion
14 oz can coconut milk
chicken broth
Parmesan cheese

Chop veggies, put in a big pot with the coconut milk. Add chicken broth to cover. Boil until carrots are mushy. Blend until creamy while hot. Salt & pepper to taste. Serve with Parmesan cheese.

weird

A gift idea for next Christmas

Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.

Paper money is obsolete

Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world

The only way to distinguish some of the “supernotes,” experts say, is to compare photographically blown-up sections with magnifying instruments, […] About $50 million of the mystery money has been seized since 1989.

Doris Lessing

On not winning the Nobel Prize

I am sure that everyone here, making a speech will know that moment when the faces you are looking at are blank. Your listeners cannot hear what you are saying: there are no images in their minds to match what you are telling them. In this case, of a school standing in dust clouds, where water is short, and where, at the end of term, a just killed goat cooked in a great pot is the end of term treat.

Is it really so impossible for them to imagine such bare poverty?

I do my best. They are polite.

I’m pretty sure of this lot there will be some who will win prizes.

Not me!

Ugh, i wanna be a snowflake

(also not me, though i met the guy at a gaming convention in Calgary once)

Ancient History

“THE GORE EXCEPTION”
A Layman’s Guide
to the United States Supreme Court Decision
in Bush v. Gore

Q: I’m not a lawyer and I don’t understand the recent Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore. Can you explain it to me?

A: Sure. I’m a lawyer. I read it. It says Bush wins, even if Gore got the most votes.

Q: But wait a second. The US Supreme Court has to give a reason, right?

A: Right.

A quote

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
– Napoleon