I am well into my sixth decade of dim sum appreciation, and I have always loved chicken feet. And you are right, it is hard to get many people to even try them. So I always give them a mantra to prepare them for their first bite: Think about where they are going, not where they’ve been.

The most important thing to me is how easy it is to restore files from the cloud. Which of the storage solutions are best for restoring large amounts of data if there is a drive failure? Which ones keep histories so you can recover files from weeks or months ago in case a file gets corrupted and goes unnoticed, or you…

I have adopted this philosophy for coffee and wine (which I don’t drink much). And a somewhat different approach for chocolate. I trained myself to enjoy successively higher cocoa percentages and I now eat 100% Callebaut Unsweetened Chocolate Liquor Discs. Where it used to take a 6 oz bar of a sweet milk chocolate for…

I think finding a place for Jared isn’t so hard, so I’m going to help him set up a small business so he can afford it. The concept is a Jared Kushner designer line of swastika yarmulkes.

This may be more a case of what Mrs. Trump is being allowed to do, not what she wants to do. Melania fits the description of a sex trafficked woman. It is more likely she is being sequestered in her New York apartment so she won’t be an embarrassment in Washington or get in the way of Trump’s other exotic sexual…

For a few years, my wife and I regularly made love to a man, still our good friend, who medaled in both the World Games and the Olympics. He was caring, funny, focused, and intense. He made love for hours, and was always in touch with what would satisfy us. He still is one of the most attractive men on the planet.

That…

I live in Seattle, and I have been watching Seahawks games for a while. I have become increasingly disenchanted with football because of the injuries and the institutional cover up about them. At the end of the Seahawks game yesterday, Oct 1, I felt sick and depressed because of the multiple injuries that occurred to…

I’m not sure we people are so hung up on “spontaneity”. If is a bad concept. Sex that is intentional, well planned and thought out is by far better than a spur of the moment decision to fuck. The whining about spontaneity is mainly found in discussion of married people sex. Single people have a name for scheduling…

My favorite cookbook which could also be considered a biography, as it is half the author’s life story, is “Cookin’ with Queen Ida”. I produced this book for my client, Grammy awarded Zydeco musician, Queen Ida in 1990. The book is a treasure trove of personal recollections from Ida’s depression era childhood on her…

My first cookbook was one my mom must have given me, The New Settlement Cookbook.

Using a toilet seat liner is a useless waste of trees. You could have found this out with a simple web search. Appearing first in Bing for “do toilet seat covers prevent infections” is:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/toilet-seat-liners-covers-pointless-bacteria-germs_n_5500416.html

These guys are The Quarrymen and their album is worth about $130,000. It is clearly the best vinyl to own, at least according to this list of the 20 most valuable records. There may be more valuable 78's.

These guys are The Quarrymen and their album is worth about $130,000. It is clearly the best vinyl to own, at least…

Don’t forget the Universal Life Church, the first and largest of the DYI ministries. http://www.ulc.org/ I’ve been a ULC minister since 1968, and have officiated over a dozen weddings. IMHO, the government cannot make any demands, like registering, on a minister. Given the First Amendment, the only thing that…

I’m male, and I don’t want to be hugged by anybody I don’t BOTH know and care about, meaning long time friends. I’m fine shaking hands, but I don’t like to be touched beyond that. Frankly, I think women can be guilty of inappropriate touch, too. I find even a touch on the shoulder by someone I don’t know to be a…

Teens having their lovers sleep over is commonly accepted in civilized countries, Holland, Scandinavia, etc. “Not Under My Roof, Teens and the Culture of Sex” by Amy T. Schalet contrasts Dutch and U. S. mores about teen sex, particularly sleep overs.

Having raised two children and now working on a couple of grandsons,…

All the laws that govern who can officiate at a wedding violate the First Amendment. And having been a Universal Life Church minister since 1968, I am appalled that NYC discriminates against us by refusing us Clergy Parking Placards. In any case, no one has challenged socialized marriage in the courts, so government…

Around here it’s Elizabeth Cotten, Mike Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt, Bill Monroe, Uncle Dave Macon, and the Memphis Jug Band

Face it. We live in a very sick culture that disparages raising, educating, loving, and caring for children. In appropriate cultures men, fathers, grandfathers, uncles, good friends, share child rearing activities. I was fortunate enough to be in graduate school when our children were born, so I had the latitude to…

Have you considered that it is important to read your monthly statements carefully? Bills, including utility bills and phone bills can have a lot of mistakes. Including being slammed by recurring charges you never authorized. It doesn’t look like these apps look at the details on phone bills, for example. I’ve been…

If you want me to stop using my Northgate Omnikey Ultra, you’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.