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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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New Snakeskin Head Drum
On the way to my uni’s sports day a couple weeks ago, we stopped off at a famous temple (from the ancient “kao noi ka mae” story) where they sold…
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It’s Finals Week
I’m flat out. Preparin’, gradin’, proctorin’ – I’m straight out pimpin’ Sarakham style, baby. baby:
