CAPTAIN'S PHLOG 2020.04.06 _____________________________________________________________ Fellow Gophers, Every day, the sweet call of the earth grows in my heart. Soon, as the days turn warmer I will find myself unable to resist and will doubtless abandon you dear folks for truly greener pastures. But weep not my Comrades! Soon enough, the world will grey, birds will throw off their independence for communal life, the land will become drowsy and torpid and I will return to you in earnest. ------------------------------------------------------------- To: tfurrows I survived four Christmases at Radio Shack in my younger days (this is the proper form eschewing the more low brow "worked for four years") and I must say that the only fond memory I have of that time is the Deskmate GUI. There are still DOS versions of it that have lodged in a few nooks and crannies of the InterTubes and I think for the sake of completeness you aught to at least posses a copy! :-D ------------------------------------------------------------- To: A Gopher Hole of Verisimilitudes Your recent take on hatred: "Regarding Reviling Resentment" I found refreshing and important. It is my feeling that when we file entire categories of human reaction into bins of 'good' and 'bad' we're giving reign to the religio-moral layer that has been impressed on most of us since birth as a system of control. Quite rightly it is that when persons dismiss an entire unsorted array of behaviors as 'bad' they are missing the fact that every class of behavior humans can express have been with us a VERY long time and are each of SOME advantage to our personal survival under certain likely-to-be-encountered conditions. Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------------- On Prison Food: Yesterday's supper featured a main course of beans and rice from a recipe by Chef John at FoodWishes. In Korea, "Eating Beans and Rice" is a euphemism for prison. In the U.S. of course we achieve the same end by talking about "Bread and Water". Are any of you aware of other food descriptions from around the globe that are used to denote incarceration? ------------------------------------------------------------- On Coffee: Can any phlog post be complete in these days without SOME reference to The Crisis? In case the answer is "No", here is mine. In the evening my wife and I enjoy a cup of decaff. I realize some folks feel this instantly makes for crappy coffee but HEAR ME OUT! Yesterday we ran out of the Good decaff we LIKE to drink and only have a tin of low-budget decaffeinated swill (or as we say "We're now out of Decaff"). We still have 2.5 quarts of almond milk left though I have covertly taken to using powdered creamer [1] in mine to save my lovely bride the same fate for as long as possible. <3 We still have over a month's worth of ground caffeinated on hand for our 2-cup-a-day habit. One fun additional fact, we use a 1970s are electric percolator to brew our coffee and we have an exact duplicate as a redundancy safety margin. [1] Oddly, in the U.S. most "Non-Dairy" creamers will say the 'Contain Milk' because of fuzzy USDA definitions. Many of these products contain caseinates which are compounds derived from milk. ---------------------------------------------------------- May you and all you love remain safe & well. [thenumberSixtyTwo]connolly[circleA][googledomain]