Recent Reads: A Dark History of Sugar by Neil Buttery – informative, interesting, and often a difficult read, as it should be I don’t know exactly how I came across this one, but I find food histories fascinating, particularly when they’re focused on one specific item and how its cultural importance affected…everything. This is a good example, following the history of sugar, particularly processed white sugar, through its development, its growing popularity, and the absolute horrors that were undertaken to fill greed both toothsome and financial. It is, as I…
Category: Daily Life
exercise: i GuEsS tHiS iS GoOd FoR mE
aPpArEnTLy ExErCiSe iS GoOd FoR mE oR SoMeThIng :p I did a ~3 mile bike ride yesterday morning. I’d have gone farther, except the path I took was flooded by the river and I wasn’t wearing the right gear to cycle through however far that went on. (more on this later) It was EXTREMELY BIZARRE, though, because between the sunrise in front of me, the resulting tree shadows, and my polarized sunglasses, at first glance it genuinely looked as if the path simply plummeted off a cliff into darkness. It’s…
Picoreviews: G20 & Heads of State
Picoreview: G20 – a great Die Hard movie In this particular Die Hard movie, which appears to be an Amazon Prime original, John McClane is Viola Davis, President of the United States, Nakatomi Plaza is the G20 summit being held in South Africa, and the hostages are the leaders of the G20 nations. Look, all I can tell you is that it delivers on what it promises. Viola Davis is fabulous and has magnificent biceps, her family dynamic feels real, and an older Asian woman has an unexpectedly great role.…
exercise: omg ded
Project Whup Dan: Dan is in no danger of being whupped. 😂 I did get back on the bike yesterday and to my surprise/relief it seems that a week OFF from cycling hadn’t been enough time for my sit bones to forget that I’d BEEN cycling, so I did a little zoom around the neighborhood yesterday to see if that would cause me significant Bike Butt today, with the intention of going on a slightly longer ride today if not. Again to my surprise, it was ‘if not’, so I…
art project: Hour 25 And Beyond
unrelated to most of anything else I might say, I noticed after a while that my rough hours breakdown of this project…was missing hours 30-40. :) Hours: 0-10: basic shapes 10-20: shading, perspective 20-30: perspective 30-40: IT’S A MYSTERY 40-60: objects, animals, beginning portraiture 60-100: portraiture …know how I said that having hit hour 20, I was confident I’d at least get to hour 25? Yeah, well, as it turns out, the early hours of the 20s were the first thing I’ve REALLY HATED doing and I would have at…