As the new year begins, and I start archiving all of my 2011 information, I thought I would recap 2011 in an unorthodox "Best Of" post. Read the rest of this entry »
Asanta Sana, Squash Banana, Wewe Nugu, Mimi Apana
(10 geek points if you know the source of the title)
(100 points if you can translate it)
Today was my first delivery from Brown Box Organics, which does organic, local, produce, dairy, grains and proteins delivery in the Boise/Eagle area. I was pretty excited about this because I HATE grocery shopping, especially for produce. Because of this, my diet tends to be high in protein and carbohydrates, which generally leaves me with less energy go grocery shopping and come up with interesting ways to use produce in my diet.
Brown Box also has variety packs, where you pay for a quantity of produce, and the contents change on a weekly basis. Basically, this means that Brown Box is, like, the most awesome service ever.
And delivery is free.
I was amazed when I came home this evening because, including the cooler I had left out, they filled an additional cardboard box and paper bag. It was like christmas. That you could eat.
Today's haul contained:
- 1x loaf of sourdough bread
- 8x 4 oz cups of cinnamon applesauce
- 2x ½ gal of 2% milk (in glass bottles, old school style)
- 1x 6 oz "berries and cream" yogurt
- 12 brown eggs
- 5x Valencia oranges
- 5x kiwifruit
- 3x Fiji apples
- 5x Bartlett pears
- 3x Bosc pears
- 3x Bananas
- 1x bunch celery
- 1x bunch chard
- 1x head Romaine lettuce
- 9x green onions
- 7x carrots
- 8x red potatoes
All of which was from Idaho, except for the kiwifruit and carrots, which were from California.
The chard, green onions and eggs are in the oven as a quiche, and the potatoes, celery and carrots are headed towards a stew this weekend.
Life as a Micronaut
mi·cro·naut ['maɪ.kroʊ.nɔt], n, -pl. -nauts 1. a person who works for Micron Technology, Inc. esp. in Boise, ID where the term applies to a large portion of the local population. 2. an incredibly awesome person who, with the help of other micronauts, is capable of performing tasks indistinguishable from miracles. 3. a somewhat deprecating term for the hordes of Boise imports that are responsible for 90% of rush hour traffic. 4. see sugar daddy.
My Kingdom for a Dishwasher
Ten years.
2001 was the last time I had ready access to a dishwasher.
Today has been a long time coming.
Welcome to the Gem State
I've long planned to return to this blog after the long absence during school--college is NOT like the movies and isn't particularly exciting to experience, especially secondhand, especially engineering college, it reads like a 13-year old's diary: I hate school, I don't have money, why doesn't anyone understand me--and as I approach the end of my second month in my new home, I figured it was about time.
On the Virtues of the 1911
Tonight I am going to pontificate about my very favorite firearm of all time, the Automatic Pistol, .45 Caliber M1911. As the 100th anniversary of this fine weapon's adoption by the United States Army fast approaches, I was thinking of an article along these lines. However, after reading a particularly derogatory article entitled "The 1911 Sucks," I felt the urge to publish a bit early.
DEFCON 18
Thus begins my obligatory post-defcon post.
DEFCON was bitter-sweet this year. Once again I was unimpressed both by the average quality of the talks and the complete lack of organization or forethought. However, I was lucky to have several friends visit Las Vegas at the same time, and so the trip out was not a complete disappointment.
The End of the Aztec Calendar...
So as I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I have to go to school tomorrow, or if I can put in a full eight at work, my roommate tells me an awesome story. He knows someone who believes the world will end in 2012. Now, at first I pass this off as the regular old spiritual BS, but this friend has details!
DEFCON 17
I guess I'm obligated to make the typical post-DEFCON post. I don't have anything terribly witty or profound to say, so instead, I'll just post the relavent Twitter posts and allow you to piece together the trip yourself.
Why I'm Awesome
If there is any day of the year I am socially allowed to wax rhapsodic about the phenomena contained within my character, it is today. You see, some time ago, on this day, I was born.
It is an interesting social convention to celebrate this event, which has no biological significance, especially because today has no real association with that day except for, by an act of providence, to have the same markings on a particular calendar. Due to the peculiarities of our "modern" Gregorian calendar, there have actually been 27 years, 7 days and 13 seconds (if you consider a year to be a 365-day period, and a day to be 86,400 seconds) between that point and the same time today. On a purely celestial scale, the Earth has orbited the sun 27 times plus about 7/100 of a degree, while the Moon has waxed and waned almost 334 times, or 27.8299 lunar years.