oh, linnaeus. so judgemental...

“Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.” - Linnaeus, 1797

art

anderson cooper on romance

peacock spider

bach

pendulum

boeuf

i noticed today, while i was heat styling my hair, that it smelled like boeuf. i must've inadvertently dunked it in french onion soup last night.

Switzerland

my sous vide experience

i've been curious about sous vide cooking, and when i saw some vacuum sealed, pre-seasoned turbot at trader joe's last week, i decided to buy some and make good use of the lab water baths. since it looked to be 15mm thick, i cooked it at 61 degrees for 40 minutes. i was happy/excited until the smell of yumminess started wafting throughout the lab and i thought the bag had exploded or melted. i couldn't smell it in the water bath though, and nothing seemed to have leaked. the juices in the pack was turbid but the bath water was still clear. meh.

the fish turned out quite delicious, despite having cooled during my trek home. my stomach hurt right after i ate it and at first i thought i had accidentally poisoned myself, but it turned out to just be gas. if i were to try again, i might use a lower temp with a longer cooking time.

milk

back in march, shaw's/star market did a promotion where if you bought 6 gallons of milk within a month, you can get one gallon free. since i have a secret love for garelick farms' chocolate milk, i decided to partake. i barely managed to eke by when the promotion ended, and i was so garelicked out by then that i held off on redeeming my free gallon. plus, there was no apparent expiration date on the vouchers, or so i thought. i recently decided to come out of my milk coma and was about to redeem my vouchers when i noticed in the blurry 0.5pt font print that they had expired a week after the promotion ended. what!! i guess that's what i get for drinking 6 gallons of milk and not reading the fine print...

ET

I lost a slice of pizza today because of the wind. Just blew it right off my plate.

Cerulean blue boogers. Must've accidentally inhaled some xylene cyanol...

Fat

Either my socks got tighter or my ankles got fat. Sympathy swelling?

neti pot

So, as people have said online, using a Neti pot was definitely weird at first. It didn't help that I didn't put in enough salt. I imagine that's what it feels like if you were trying to waterboard yourself. What was most disappointing though, was that I was hoping to flush out boogers of all sorts of colors and the best I got was a lot of clear slime and a little bit of yellow stuff. I was sick! I should've had lots of boogers! In varying hues of green and yellow!

cough-ccyx

I think I'm coming down with something because I'm really tired all the time and getting all mucusy and phlegmy and my throat is starting to hurt. It makes me want to cough all the time. But whenever I cough my tailbone hurts because I slipped on a patch of ice last week whilst scoping out some snacks in a shop window and fell on my ass. Argh, so sucks.

Hmmm...my half eaten turkey-on-rye (with mayo) has been sitting at the perfect bacteria-friendly temperature for the past few hours thanks to my computer AC adapter. It's still quite good though; I just hope I don't get sick. So many things to watch out for when one needs to hide a sandwich behind one's computer at work...

they discontinued the tampons i like! what the wha??

Peter Thomas Roth anti-aging cleansing gel tastes terrible.

ducks