not to highlight my ignorance, but what is a café racer? is it an acronym for something? thank you in advance for all non-sarcastic responses! :)

whoa easy here killer! i was not looking for fight, but i am now getting the sense that you may have been, especially with your opening question. in direct response to that... jung had the psychological equivalent of a religious experience and it changed him. some of his answers were unorthodox, but he was a very,…

i think one problem in answering this is how do you regard science? can it eventually answer all questions? i mean can philosophical questions be answered by science? are you talking the brain? the brain is science, it is the body, it can be measured, its actions and reactions can be quantified. the mind? can you…

good question! he was a medical psychiatrist and clinician first. a contemporary and friend of freud, but the difference was that he worked with the insane and not only the “neurotic.” but he had a mental breakdown, i think mid way through his career. you can read his “red book” which were his writings about his…

yeah, maybe i have lived in europe too long, but what do people need such huge turkeys for? turkey is the main course for christmas eve dinner where i live. but typically i cook a 5kg (about 12lb) max bird for 6-8 people. we will have enough leftovers for christmas day lunch, and that is it. we are not looking to find…

i am still on my game boycott, six months in, it was being an unproductive time suck. i was playing city of heroes homecoming, but after a year i was getting bored. then i downloaded Civ 6 for free from epic games and played that for a while.

someone needs to do a blue monday version of that... :D

the best part of the chase in downtown... :)

yeah, i have been spoiled. that is a good point too. since when i make our food at home, it is with generally fresh ingrediants. i do find it frustrating reading some of the interesting recipes that i find on the Takeout that use canned ingrediants or prepared ingrediants, like creamed corn/mushrooms or bisquick,…

ha ha! that is a good story! i have an ex-pat american friend that lives in italy and has a pizza oven too! i wonder if that is an ex-pat american thing or a regular italian thing? but anyways...

well, my family is generally decent, though i like having my distance. but i have not had a thanksgiving at “home” in 20 years. 3 of those years were army, 2 were extended backpacking travel, 13 years of living in france, etc. i have barely seen any of my family in 15 years, since i have been in the US only three…

good schnitzel in buenas aires too! :)

not food, but i would travel to vietnam again for their sweet coffee! it’s coffee that is served in a small glass, where the hot coffee strains through device that sits on the glass, and the glass has the bottom 1/3 filled with sweet condensed milk. on ice is even better! even though i bought one of those strainers i…

here’s how a traditional christmas dinner in south france is done, for typical wine pairings. i wrote this down because as an american living in france, i learned that the french know how to feast. turkey is the main dish, that is why i bring this up in regards to thanksgiving.

define water! i mean, i drink 1 liter of coffee in the morning, based on my 1 liter coffee press. then a glass of orange juice and probably the same amount of liquid with milk in my bowl of cereal. then a glass of water with an effervescent asprin, after my 1 hour government rationed daily morning lockdown exercise…

since i am in france and we are under lockdown, not much driving is being done. but since i am a driver for handicapped kids to and from schools, and schools are still open, i drive at the mornings and late afternoons. i have recently been given an upgrade for my company car, a 2021 renault clio 6 speed manual, and it…

yeah, i was in the utah wilderness doing a camping retreat for “at-risk” kids, i did not find out until that night, watched a couple of hours of CNN, then was back in the wild for the rest of the week. was totally cut off from almost all of it. the only difference was the noticible lack of planes flying overhead.

is this really any good, or just a fad because it is dangerous?

if you could get past 50km/h it might be dangerous... but this video sold me. :D

yeah, st trop, i avoid it if i can. but you can keep your cold! i come from the north in the states, michigan, but i hate cold weather. my wife is niçoise, and she has no idea what cold is. she thinks 10c is cold! :D