Looks like someone signed me up for a week's worth of seasonal influenza. The deluxe Extra Aches and Shivering package, too, it seems.
So far it isn't meshing well with my wife's Month Of Bronchitis.
If I can be persuaded to ever go out bar hopping again, I will not, under any circumstances shake anybody's hand.
Any of you ever see The Woodwright's Shop on PBS? It's a woodworking show, lots of hand tools, very old-timey feel ?
It turns out that the Woodwright himself runs a school on the ground floor of the same building as our favorite local bar (and wine shop).
And now I know.
So, it turns out that the fundamentals of human economic behavior are at least 35 million years old and almost certainly existed in the common ancestor of humans and capuchin monkeys.
Homo economicus is a ancient creature.
A snapper gets a free lunch. Duh.
James Henry Salisbury, M.D. (12 January 1823 – 23 September 1905) was a 19th-century American physician, and the inventor of the Salisbury steak. Salisbury was born in Scott, New York, in 1823. He earned a Bachelor of Natural Sciences degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1844.
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Salisbury served as a physician during the American Civil War, and became convinced that diarrhea suffered by the troops could be controlled with a diet of coffee and lean chopped beefsteak. Salisbury was one of the earliest health food faddists and taught that diet was the main determinant of health. He believed vegetables and starchy foods produced poisonous substances in the digestive system which were responsible for heart disease, tumors, mental illness and tuberculosis. He believed that human dentition demonstrated that humans were meant to eat meat, and sought to limit vegetables, fruit, starches, and fats to one-third of the diet. The Salisbury steak, his means of achieving this goal, is ground beef flavored with onion and seasoning and then deep-fried or boiled, and was introduced in 1888. Salisbury believed that beef was excellent defense against many different physical problems. He suggested that Salisbury steak should be eaten three times a day, with lots of water to cleanse the digestive system. He was an early American proponent of a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss, and he promoted his diet for that purpose.Salisbury steak — essentially a hamburger — might have faded from the collective memory if World War I had not inspired a drive in English-speaking nations to rename German-sounding things. Salisbury steak became a popular substitute for the (bunless) hamburger.
I misjudged how long our heating fuel would last. And we woke up to a very cold house this AM. No hot water, no heat, no fun.
No, the torture report will not change anything. Nobody will go to jail. No laws will be passed. Nothing will change.
The Senate GOP thinks it was all awesome and you're all liars anyway and the bloody-minded mouth-breathers outnumber the sane, at all levels.
So, enjoy your disgust. But don't fool yourself into thinking that the disgust it's universally shared. It's not.
Use a Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage!
