tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post7380465969289881056..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: Rot in a Year. Rot and Stink Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-13185894373022517232016-09-09T07:46:26.528-07:002016-09-09T07:46:26.528-07:00I Have A Theory:
Mutt & Jeff have never had a ...I Have A Theory:<br />Mutt & Jeff have never had a vegetable that didn't come in a bag with a large green man pictured on it. Because those are the only vegetables that you'd even WANT to bury in butter (mostly to kill the freezer-burn taste.) <br />Cauliflower? Cheese sauce. <br />Broccoli? Grated parmesan, or perhaps a nice herb dip. <br />Spinach? My oldest daughter does this AMAZING baby spinach caesar salad from scratch. (Oops, no anchovies in the MK. Damn.) <br />Olives? Eat 'em as they are. <br />Peppers and most beans, part of some other dish. (I'm guessing L+J believe they are somewhat above the 'four bean salad' social class.)<br />YMMV, of course. <br /><br />The MK doesn't just show a lack of imagination, it's an insult to gourmands everywhere.Blank Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15979418686713358058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-49579169608749134142016-08-25T13:58:25.913-07:002016-08-25T13:58:25.913-07:00More research fail on Ellanjay's part. Solar c...More research fail on Ellanjay's part. <a href="http://www.solarcookers.org/involved/basics/" rel="nofollow">Solar cookers are a thing IRL</a>. AFAIK, they invariably involve reflectors, not magnifiers.Rhoadanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375561352677522227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-23949505985320665682016-08-22T03:01:20.703-07:002016-08-22T03:01:20.703-07:00Harrier, I think that's consistent with their ...Harrier, I think that's consistent with their psychology elsewhere: sex so easily leads to sin that it's best just to think of it as an unfortunate necessity. (Which is why there are all those dead hookers buried in my backyard, your honour. Boys will be boys.)<br /><br />But this is also something that Mouse, Fred, and others have pointed out: these books are written for a contemporary audience, by people to whom alternative worldviews are anathema (look at how down they get on non-Christian™-brand fiction even when it doesn't have magic and demons in it). This is about the closest they get to actual fantasy, and even though these are the people who came up with the idea of dispensations, they <i>still</i> don't dare suggest that the Basic Family Unit might ever be changed. As the great Dave Langford once said of another book, it's curiously unfantastic fantasy.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-87875322902323380022016-08-20T20:19:04.687-07:002016-08-20T20:19:04.687-07:00The passage with Cameron and Chloe is rather Augus...The passage with Cameron and Chloe is rather Augustinian in its treatment - sexual desire, even for the one person you are allowed to admit desire for in RTC circles, is still slightly distasteful, something you want a "medicine" to cure you of. Also, while last time EllenJay contradicted common Christian thought because of slavish adherence to their tortured prophecy interpretation, this time they've missed an opportunity to show (or at least tell) about the strange and wonderful Millenial Kingdom because of their slavish adherence to conservative Christian thinking.<br /><br />My question is - why do Chloe and Cameron and the rest of the glorified people live in one man one woman with child family units? If dirty dirty sex isn't a temptation anymore, why not have three women and five dudes who happen to have similar interests living together, or four male best friends, or a co-operative of a dozen women? I think the authors are literally so stuck in the paterfamilias model that they cannot imagine another way of living, even in a setting where reproduction and the passing on of property to family don't exist and there's no slavery (except to TurboJesus), so the conditions that produced the paterfamilias are inapplicable.Harriernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-58402654930406961162016-08-20T19:15:11.324-07:002016-08-20T19:15:11.324-07:00About veggie variety, you may enjoy this.
http://...About veggie variety, you may enjoy this.<br /><br />http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Spice.htmlspiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-32105794197907496552016-08-19T18:52:41.239-07:002016-08-19T18:52:41.239-07:00Surprisingly, clandestine distillation is in fact ...Surprisingly, clandestine distillation is in fact a plot point later.spiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-84843612028648767112016-08-15T09:05:43.284-07:002016-08-15T09:05:43.284-07:00To be fair to the Titanic, the engineering was as ...To be fair to the <i>Titanic</i>, the engineering was as sound as any other ship of her day. It was pressing on through iceberg-filled water that did for her, and it was generally believed that icebergs posed no particular danger to modern ships.<br /><br />The bad physics, it burns! You know what light does once it's been absorbed (by your eyeball or anything else)? It turns to heat. Seven times as much light means seven times as much heat, even if you concentrate all that light into the visible spectrum (and if you do everyone will go blind from the excessive brightness anyway). If that didn't work, the "simple contraption" would just make things very bright rather than very hot. Damn ignorant peasants.<br /><br />To be fair, it's also always about sex because they got to write their own rules about what it's acceptable to do with money.<br /><br />“Do you realize, Chlo’, that we still have to raise Kenny in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and see to it that he decides for Christ?” — is the sort of thing people say when they're looking over their shoulders at the security cameras.<br /><br />Those unfertilised eggs are of course haploid and non-viable. Perhaps the other half is filled in by magic, I mean divine, DNA. And what about all those millions of sperm, eh? If an egg is sacred…<br /><br />To say nothing of the life experiences that change a blob of cells into a person.<br /><br />You know what piles of produce are good for? Producing fermentables. And there's clearly plenty of solar heat available for boiling the wort. Just saying.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com