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Resist False Winter

Another day of sleet and cold inspired me to don a Twittermask, recorded here since I have yet to bolt on a satisfactory RSS scraper for consolidation purposes hereabouts:

REPEAL FALSE WINTER

NO JUSTICE NO SPRING END FALSE WINTER

BRING SPRING HOME NO FALSE WINTER

FALSE WINTER? TRUE SPRING!

FALSE WINTER STEALS YOUR TIME 3 minutes ago

FALSE WINTER RETARDS THE WITHERING AWAY OF THE STATE 4 minutes ago

FALSE WINTER DENYS HISTORICAL INEVITABILITY 5 minutes ago

WITH SOUP AND FIRE AND TIME, FALSE WINTER WILL FALL TO YOUR RESISTANCE 6 minutes ago

LET FALSE WINTER BE SHAMED BY PUBLIC DENUNCIATION AND DRIVEN FROM THE AIR BY MEANS OF ECLIPTIC PRECESSION 7 minutes ago

FALSE WINTER ALIENATES THE WORKER FROM TRUE SPRING – LET THE BULBS AND BLOSSOMS MINGLE 9 minutes ago

RESIST FALSE WINTER 10 minutes ago

DRIVE THE FALSE WINTER FROM THE HEARTHS OF THE PROLETARIAT 11 minutes ago

DEATH TO THE FALSE WINTER 12 minutes ago

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SOL INVICTUS VADUM DEBELLO REPROBA HIBERNA

STAND WITH THE HISTORICAL INEVITABILITY OF THE ORBITAL REVOLUTION: FALSE WINTER YEILDS TO AXIAL PRECESSION

BENEATH THE SNOW, THE BEACH

PWN F4LS3 W1NT3R

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cover

Plants inside, per warnings of a two-day hard freeze and a week of lows in the 30s. Planted crops wrapped in plastic.

There was more snow today, although last night’s drop left with the dawn as expected. After that, there was hail. No thunder and lightning yet.

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BLIZZARD

OK, in the past ten minutes, half-an-inch of snow has accumulated, and if anything, it’s snowing harder.

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COOK OFF

Chili down for the pre-cook. The recipe I selected was of interest specifically for its’ dogged avoidance of namby-pamby Frenchified flavor-building practices, can be simplified thus:

Add ground beef to about half the beef’s volume of water. Dump some spices and chopped onions in. Boil for a couple of hours.

I will be tasting and adjusting the spicing, but in the end declined to pproceed as I would have if faced with the same ingredients and flavor goal on my own. No staged addition of spices to browning meat, no carmelization of onions: chili, fifty years ago, was a food designed to be cooked by busy men for other busy men, in large quantities and with a minimum of fuss.

I do imagine remaking the chili in my normal manner, once I’ve sample the recipe. But tomorrow night, youse can call me Cookie.

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Chili feed advisory

I’m looking at Wednesday evening. My thinking is to start the cookery on Tuesday night, except for the noodles and such items as may be best served by a shorter cook time. Complainants, please advise!

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Cathy

Cathy’s Book – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

For whatever reason, this 2-year-old ARG popped up in some Google ads for me today. Here’s a nonlinked version of the ad:

Cathy’s Book

If found call (650) 266-8233 — And change the default access code!
www.cathysbook.com

I’m interested, but what’s even more interesting is this:

When I saw the ad, I immediately thought, “Wow, someone’s directly looking to drive ARG traffic via ads! I must investigate!”

Given that my operating assumption is that I am just like everybody else, I wonder if that means everybody else also has such well-tuned ARG antennae by now.

Probably not, huh?