Last night was my wife's late night at the office, and she had errands to run afterwards. When she walked in the door, she handed me a grocery bag full of things, dug a piece of paper out of her purse, dropped it into the bag and commanded me to "Bake!"

It's some kind of cookie that one of the nurses brought in. Liz loved it so much that she got the recipe and stopped on the way home to get the ingredients. I'm thinking Thursday evening, since it's supposed to rain then. I'll let you know how they turn out, because they do sound yum.

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1 Looking for testers?

Posted by: dawn at June 07, 2005 07:35 AM (Dh1V0)

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This makes sense:

It's infinitely better to work with nature than to work against it - just as it's better to work with the grain of the wood. -- Dame Jill Knight

Then again, so does this:

There is nothing that great about nature. Nature is full of diseases; it's full of failures. Almost every organism that's born on the planet fails - doesn't make it to reproductive age. Humans are rather better than that - most of us do make it to reproductive age. In fact many of us reproduce. That's a great achievement, and that's an artificial achievement. If you leave it to nature, all you get is a lot of dead babies. -- Oliver Morton

Hmmmm.

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1 Well, that Oliver Morton guy's a real ray of sunshine huh?

Posted by: shank at June 06, 2005 08:22 AM (+H1yK)

2 How about this:
It is best to toward life and health, whichever way that goes.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at June 06, 2005 08:55 AM (Jgwqx)

3 Ollie sounds like he's auditioning to be Kevorkian's chaplain.

Posted by: Ted at June 06, 2005 09:35 AM (blNMI)

4 I bet Oliver Morton is would be big on human enhancement, or cyborgs y'know, then we'd be ultra perfect, screw that bag nature.

Posted by: Oorgo at June 06, 2005 11:35 AM (lM0qs)

5 It's a process as medical knowlege expands. My dad got a new knee last month, fifty years ago that kind of joint replacement was science fiction. We've moved towards the scary future in such tiny incremental steps that Shelley's Frankenstein happens every day in operating rooms all over the world. In her day it was horror fiction. Add better nutrition and biochemistry, and I'd argue that compared to a century ago we already *are* ultra-perfect.

Medical ethical debate isn't a new thing. It happened with germ theory, it happened with blood transfusions and organ transplants. Yesterday's crime against nature becomes tomorrow's commonplace.

Posted by: Ted at June 06, 2005 07:44 PM (+OVgL)

6 Ah yes, we may live longer, we may have cushier lifestyles, but I ask you, are we happy? Has our science crushed crime, poverty and racism? And how many extra fellow-humans can we kill in one fell swoop with our ultra-perfect science?

Sure I may be happier as I sit watching easily accessible porn and eating nachos, and if I live to 100 I'll probably be alive in some nursing home screaming obscenities and shitting my pants, all because science kept me alive.

Posted by: Oorgo at June 07, 2005 11:28 AM (lM0qs)

7 Now who's being a ray of sunshine?

Posted by: Ted at June 07, 2005 11:31 AM (blNMI)

8 lol! I never claimed to be an optimist.

Posted by: Oorgo at June 07, 2005 01:37 PM (lM0qs)

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Credit where due. Sometime late this morning we lost internet service at the house. When I got home around 1pm I did the normal routine (reset the modem, reset the router, reboot the PC), but apparently not in the correct order or something. A call to Comcast and the help desk technician helped us get back up and running in less than an hour.

I also note that they've gotten used to the idea that many people hang routers off their modems. Time was, they'd have you disconnect everything so that only your PC was on the modem. Now they assume you're using the router and deal with it in a generic way.

Comcast has been extremely reliable for us over the last several years, and although fixes haven't always been this quick and easy, they've gotten it right sooner or later. Your milage may vary, but based on my experiences I'd recommend them.

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I'm pissed off right now. Mookie has spent probably 40+ hours as a student volunteer doing stage managing work for a show put on tonight by her school choir, including 12 hours just in the last few days.

Burney, the choir teacher, didn't see fit to say thank you to her or the other three kids who ran the stage and handled lighting and cues. Not even a mention in the program. He did give the kids what they took as a veiled threat before the show about not screwing it up.

The title of this post is Google-bait. I want anyone who looks for "GarField" or "music" or "choir" or "Burny" to find this.

Mookie would probably say something like, "Mr. Burny, you suck.", because she's too polite to flat out call you an asshole. But I'm not.

In fact, the phrase "ungrateful cocksucker" comes to mind.

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I'm tired of those lame Bush's Baked Beans commercials. I bet that I could dice that canine traitor fine enough that nobody would know the difference between salt pork and salt Duke.

The more I hear about it, the less I want to see Star Wars. I'd spend the entire movie snickering and mocking the lame-ass names that pepper the franchise. I almost retched over the original Luke "Skywalker", and it's gone downhill in a hurry from there.

The family of "Deep Throat" may cash in on fame. Surprise, surprise. He wasn't the hero a lot of people were hoping for, he was a disgruntled employee getting even for being passed over on a promotion. In hindsight, being capable of that kind of treachery makes me believe that it's a good thing he was never put in complete control of the FBI. I'm not defending Nixon and what that gang of nimrods did, but it's now obvious that he wasn't the only asshole involved either.

Speaking of, damn Bush for causing those homes in California to fall off that mountainside. I bet global warming or nuclear winter or something eco is the cause of it.

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Our next blogger demolition derby get-together will be on June 25th at the Prince William County Stadium.

The Nats Kory Casto just ended a streak of eleven straight games where he hit a double. The MLB record is seven games, held by several players. And who says there's no excitement in single-A ball? Heck, they even sell beer!

The Prince William Cannons Potomac Nationals will be playing the Frederick Keys. Last time we got a block of seats and they were pretty darn good at only $9.00 each. We had a great time, so c'mon out!

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