Just some quick news from back home: Crystal Cove State Park has reopened! Crystal Cove is one of my favorite places back home. It’s been a long decade plus away, and one of the things I miss most about OC is the endless coastline (Curiously, in that decade, our area became quite famous because of a stupid TV program. People never used to know where Orange County was and now they’re all like, “oh you’re from the OC? I watch that all the time!” I. Cannot. Relate.) Here’s a recent LA Times writeup: LINK (need a login?)

Could it be said that these photos of an underground Russian submarine base are the pinnacle of glasnost? Or am I just being nekulturny? And now that I’ve expended my full knowledge of the Russian language, please move on to the awesome photos on that page.

This is a great way to greet new users to your site: Gee, I wasn’t aware that Google Ads pay per pageview. Dumbshits. Also, FUCK ADS! (this rant brought to you by Anger Management, Ltd.)

I can’t say much about the Hongshuai Soy Sauce scheme involving production of “soy sauce” from human hair and medical waste, except that the perpetrators should be force fed their own product via beer bong. The journalists then found the amino acid syrup manufacturer (a bioengineering company) in Hubei province. When asking how the amino acid syrup (or powder) was generated, the manufacturer replied that the powder was generated from human hair. Because the human hair was gathered from salon, barbershop and hospitals around the country, it was unhygienic and mixed with condom, used hospital cottons, used menstrual cycle pad, used syringe, etc. After filtered by the workers, the hair…