randomWalks

I became seriously worried about raising my own children when I was a camp counselor in a wealthy suburban area and found out the games that were “banned”, which included:

• Star Wars (and anything else with wars)
• Cowboys and Indians (and anything else politically incorrect)
• Police and Robbers (and anything else with “weapons” even if you used your hand and went “bang bang”.)
• Good old fashioned Tag and Hide and Go Seek… too “dangerous”

Meanwhile, everyone was unconcerned with the massive amounts of sugar we fed those kids.

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source: http://www.malcolmwells.com

With all due respect, I’m certain I can’t understand how Maisel’s hurt feelings are worth $32K.

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The poor kids wouldn’t know where to look – the reassuring fullness of their own mothers’ breasts, granny’s withered pancake boasting its long experience, or the strange mound of flesh granddad was squeezing up in breast envy.

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Modern civilization has many things to admire, but the dark side of its so-called nutrition comes with it in a package. Often the fake foods that carry its malnutrition are manufactured to have drug-like addictive qualities. It peddles the illusion of ease with its elevators and office chairs. Its televisions and radios and educational systems constitute unparalleled systems of mass media that embed its ideologies within the minds of its students.

The one-story house in West Hollywood (835 North Kings Road; 323-651-1510; makcenter.org; $7) was built in 1921-22 and feels incredibly modern with its lack of decorative fuss. The unpainted concrete walls feature narrow strips of glass set at regular intervals. Other walls are made of redwood frames and stretched canvas; some open onto the gardens. Schindler described the house as fulfilling “the basic requirements for a campers’ shelter: a protected back, an open front, a fireplace and a roof.” Schindler’s house integrates the interior and exterior with several protected outdoor “rooms” — some with fireplaces on the exterior walls.

You actually have to watch the popcorn pop. Then you take the various accouterments to the Champagne room for the least erotic virtual striptease possible.
It made me long for the urinal.

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"It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out what to eat when you’re dealing with REAL FOOD" (via Jurassic Flood: No excuses!)

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Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way, via Astronomy Picture of the Day)

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Alan van Roemburg thanks to Takamasa!

…This is basically equivalent to a “smoke cigarettes to raise money for colon cancer” promotion.

Humans paid a heavy biological cost for agriculture, especially when it came to the variety of nutrients. Even now, about 60 percent of our calories come from corn, rice and wheat.

I AM JOHNNY CARSON’S ADULT MALE CHILD

Parkitecture occupies an interesting liminal space in the parks; it both informs and restricts your movement, trying to blend in with the natural surroundings while being obviously official. It also requires an investment in apparently outdated trades–we saw trail maintenance in Zion being performed by a team of masons with chisels and hammers, chipping the red sandstone into appropriately rustic blocks. The curation and preservation of these trade skills seem just as important to me as the park itself.

I want to target the pot market. There’s no good reason we haven’t.

Instead of white bread, corn, sugar, powdered milk and canned foods, they began to eat the traditional fresh foods of their ancestral past: kangaroos, birds, crocodiles, turtles, shellfish, yams, figs, yabbies (freshwater crayfish), freshwater bream and bush honey. At the experiment’s conclusion, the results were spectacular, but not altogether unexpected given what [was] known about Paleo diets, even then … their diabetes effectively disappeared.

As a person concerned about his health, and as someone who feels that there are reasonable ethical options available for meat consumption, I have consciously (and perhaps selfishly) chosen to avoid a sub-optimal diet. I have come to recognize the fact that the human body evolved to eat meat, and that in order for me to live and be at my best, I need to be an omnivore.

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"It was an excellent decision to make the pawns ChuChus. The pawns is where a lot of themed chess sets go wrong, and Zelda is a tough series to pick an enemy pawn for. They look great." (via My friend just finished this hand-sculpted Legend of Zelda chess set. : gaming)

Is this what people aspire to? A stuffed peacock on a non-functioning fireplace? A 4-foot high photo of a cigarette smoker on the wall? Lily-white upholstered furniture on the beach?

Most small farms are not self-sustaining in a very basic sense: they can’t make ends meet financially without relying on income from jobs off the farm.

The Lisa hardware designers (Paul Baker, Bob Paratore and others) solved the problem by including a little Apple II, with its own memory and microprocessor (but clocked twice as fast), inside the Lisa to control the Twiggy drives.