quacky: —–+—+—–

Great NYT articleBrain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop - NYTimes.com says: “chronically stressed rats los[e] their elastic rat cunning and instead f[a]ll back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they ha[ve] no intention of eating”

… and of course i know exactly what the fuckers are talking about, fuck. Cue soundtrack, Pissed Jeans, King of Jeans.

Note: preceding video not found on “King of Jeans.” I totally knew that.

Porcini Powder – Opium for the cooks « Hong Kong Phoodey
the umami taste was so potent it actually hit me on a mental level. It felt like I was tweaked on drugs. So I think I’m going to have to use it a bit more sparingly, otherwise eating may become just too intense.

I think I’ve made a discovery so significant, it penetrates to the heart of so many other human pursuits. Yes, I do mean “human”, in that it applies to all of us. It’s not so narrow as to be merely a cultural thing, or a modern thing. But I think it lies beneath almost everything suggested by the question “what is it to be human?”

In a sense, this thought, which is actually a question, could, I think, be said to lurk in the depths of our art, our philosophy, our scientific endeavors, music, poetry, literature, religious thought, even war and politics. The ridiculous thing is, it is a question without answer; an intractable question; a self-referential, maddening gyre of a question; an infernal, stubborn, infinite recursion.

The question that plagues us, has plagued us since thoughts began to form in our proto-cognitive prehistory, is a simple one. At least grammatically speaking… Yet it seems to be diamond-like kernel — perhaps galaxy-pinning black hole — of every human endeavor (with the possible exclusion of cuisine). It is … (more…)

Um if you carry this kind of stuff around on your flash drive, it’s probably best not to lose track of it, I’m thinking.

MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Tor Browser
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> MacDrive 7.0.10
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Gorean Texts, Scrolls and essays
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Gorean Texts
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Floola-win
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 1,123,456 1.mpeg
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 576 Alibris Gor books order number.txt
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 30,456 avatar_12345.png
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN AM 9,123,456 trillian-v3.1.12.0.exe
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 21,456 XXXX's myspace poems and work #1.rtf
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 1,123,456 wrar380.exe
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 7,123,456 Floola-win.zip
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 23,456 hypnomaster conversation 1-12-08.rtf
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 123,123,456 Imee_Oii.rar
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 3,123,456 MacDrive 7.0.10.rar
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 35,456 Equilibrium.mp4.[iPodTVNova.com].torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 5,123,456 macdrive_7.2.5_en_setup.exe
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 2,456 MacDrive_7_0_10___KeyGen.torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 7,123,456 RestrainedLife.zip
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 16,123,456 SLim-2.1.3010.1763-Release.msi
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 19,456 The.Golden.Compass.2007.DvDRip.TV.Optimized.mp4.[iPodTVNova.com].torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 14,456 The_Phantom_Of_The_Opera__2004_Soundtrack___Special_Edition_.torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 7,456 YYYY's chef letter2.rtf
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN AM 21,123,456 tor-im-browser-1.1.6_en-US.exe
MM/DD/200x HH/MN PM 879 WordPad.lnk
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 4,123,456 yam-win.zip

Retro Recipes: Titty Sauce Yams, 1961 is part of a series of blogs, that I just don’t have the time to read right now. From a wonderfully literate and elegantly witty food writer. I love Stephanie Butler’s prose, and her take on this old wack-job cookbook from the good old days of chauvinism and terrible food:

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices … by the illustrious Mr. George Leonard Herter of Waseca, Minnesota. It’s impossible to improve upon or even accurately convey the passionate prose of Mr. Herter, so I’ll let him take it away. From the third paragraph:

“I will start with meats, fish, eggs, soups and sauces, sandwiches, vegetables, the art of French frying, desserts, how to dress game, how to properly sharpen a knife, how to make wines and beer, how to make French soap, what to do in case of hydrogen or cobalt bomb attack. Keeping as much in alphabetical order as possible.”