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Nattokinase vs. amyloid fibrils
Attention: My nattoburger invention may now save you from Alzheimer’s.
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Writing exercises
While researching for an extended writing class, I stumbled upon this list of exercises at McSweeney’s: THIRTEEN WRITING PROMPTS Sample: “A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. When the larvae hatch, they devour the still living spider from the inside out. Isn’t that fucked up? Write a short story about how fucked up that is.” That’s so fucked up. The end.
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I heard it.
Can you?
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You say Dokdo, I say Takeshima (or the Liancourt Rocks)
The Big Picture captures the Dokdo/Takeshima (Takeshima/Dokdo) debate through big news shots: Dokdo or Takeshima They should just take one island a piece and turn them into penal colonies, or breeding grounds for the next generation of Godzilla. Actually, the best way to handle this situation is probably for the UN to evacuate the islands and then nuke them into oblivion. That way, neither side loses face, and that’s really what this is all about, right? A 500 year old Japanese-Korean pissing match about some rocks in the middle of nowhere… And yet, this issue even springs up in articles covering race relations at Little Tokyo senior care facilities. When…
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Surf Fishing for Great Whites
dayum!
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Someone turned the heat up…
…it was probably that big, feral, omniscient monkey in the sky. In two weeks it went from the high 70s (F) to over 100 degrees during the afternoon. It was hot. I decided to walk home since Nam dropped me off this morning. I walked a few miles and emptied the bottle of water I carried along. People drove by in/on all sorts of motored conveyances, and wondered where the hell the crazy Japanese guy was walking. NOBODY WALKS IN THAILAND. I’m the walking dude.
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The Cuetlaxochitls* are no longer on the porch
* poinsettias, which seem to be blinding but not deadly
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Chn wisperz
A couple of the more interesting mistakes on the dictation tests I’m grading: parking garage –> taking the lass courthouse –> cock house bakery –> buggery That is all.
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Obamazushi
Serious rolling skills. Nam should hold a makizushi contest for her students in this vein.
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Using Thai rice for risotto…
.. and it’s taking a loooooooong time. Also, I have no parmesan. Maybe I’ll use spotted gecko spittle… Improvise, improvise, improvise.
