I go down to the local halal shop and buy goat and/or lamb for my stew - they chop it to size for me; duck and chicken we get from friends' farmette; we buy a quarter of cow and share it with other friends. We trade beef for duck pound for pound - the ducks are Muscovy and really good.

Yep, just replace the duct tape once a month - no problem.

Yeah, but it does not hold together well enough to spin which is probably a good thing for cats cuz who would want their cat dragging their poo around (back when I had *really* long hair my cat sometimes would drag 'stuff' around).

We buy our beef by the cow; we know a rancher east of the Cascades who is doing restoration work and uses cows as grazers rather than bison. He gets them at about 6 months old and gets them butchered at about 18 months; they are dry-aged before butchering. We went out to visit the ranch the first year and chose our…

They were pushing this real hard in Tucson when we lived there in the early 90s - a white roof could reduce energy use by about 25-30%; insulate attic spaces and vent them - heck put in a solar fan to pull the hot air out.

I remember the song/children's rhyme - found this version

I was going to post that link! I only wish I could wear shoes with laces (or anything with laces) but thems the breaks, I guess. I do lace my g.f's shoes for her.

Sperm banks no longer accept donations from gingers - just sayin'

He notes all the suffering that the church and he endured in the first paragraph; then talks about being ashamed - never really mentioned the suffering of the victims (at least in this quote).

a) Neal Stephenson and his Baroque Cycle - 3 nice, fat books in the series (just read that they reissued the series as 8 books - a hint at their length); Cryptonomicon (each of the books are about 1100 pages long), The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, and Anathem, both really thick novels.

Nope, it means that they sneak into Vietnam and steal women for wives. There is a lot of really bad stuff going on in China around this problem.

My fiance and I have been together for more than 20 years (I asked her to marry me going 80 mph at 3:00 am because I had introduced her to family as my fiance and on the way home she said "but you have not asked me to marry you yet!" - oops). Everyone in my family is on a second or third marriage; mom finally…

Don't forget the soup - I am drooling for turkey soup. But, yeah, turkey sandwiches are great too.

If you want a really fun all day turkey recipe google for 'black turkey' - it worked and we got really buzzed; stayed that way all day.

If you go the supersaturation route, be prepared for overly salty turkey; best add some sugar to your brine. All the brine is does is relax the proteins.

I remember drooling and really, really wanting one when they were first advertised, but I was just poor jar-head on his way to a medical discharge, sigh.

I remember the firefox addon for Abe - he got a kick out of it.

Didn't Giz have an article on build-it-yourself railguns a couple months ago?

I still have one of the old bricks - it will run off the +5 on my landline if there is a general power outage.

When I was a runner I was up at 6 am in sweat pants - I don't get what you are going for here