Few things in this world are worth considering as possible
alternatives for ambrosia, but I'm going to give a quick
list of possibilities.
- That last little bit of cereal at the bottom of a
Cheerios(R) box that has all the dusty crumbles in it mixed
with lots of sugar
- Really good french fries
- Kahlua and milk
- Chocolate ice cream
- A significant other's lips and tongue
- Sweet potatos
- Purple fuzz zombie weed
- Candied apples
- Pepsi(Coke is not an acceptable suggestion)
- Really spicy blackened chicken
- Tofu(beg for its forgiveness first, damn you!)
- Burritos
- Habeñeros
- Shrooms
- Stuffed jalepeños
- Thai Basil's chicken fried rice(all hail Doug and Jean for
introducing me to Thai Basil)
- Flour tortillas, pan fried in butter, and covered with
fresh minced garlic
- My mom's birthday cakes
- The Globe in Montreal
- MY ASS!
and, to hear tell of it
but I'm pretty sure he's tootin' his wee horn. It's probably
Janice's recipe, anyway.
Other news: New PA jewelry. A nice 6 gauge titanium captive
bead ring with a blue tint. Spork-a-rific. Pretty ouch-y
going in, though, due to jewelry form factor. I think I'll
stop at this gauge for some time. One of ferrets seems to
have eaten a rubberband or part thereof. I'm mildly
concerned, but not terribly. It's being passed so there's
little chance of serious illness or death. Hooray for
synchronicity. Got the first three rolls of film back that I
took with the new camera. Lessons learned after several
years of not taking photos and then starting up again: 1) I
keep missetting the
aperature, 2) My right eye is significantly more astigmatic
since I stopped actively photographing,
and 3) a flash sure would be nice. Wing chun class
continues to be fun and an ass beating. I like it. Saturday
there was some odd Carribean parade past my home. Neat
little floats and I think I got some very good photos. Went
for
a 40k ride on Sunday with Martin
and Slick. It was a lot of fun,
but the longish uphill climbs(well, longish for me) into the
wind sucked mightily.
Signed up to help out at a local homeless shelter, but they
don't want me until later in the year when fewer homeless
folk are willing to sleep on the streets due to the extreme
cold that Ottawa gets. That will be an interesting trial. I
was idly wondering what the average "open source community
member" does in terms of local community work. My gut
feeling is that it's effectively 0. I know a lot of the
geeks I've met feel that they're already doing an immense
service to the world by contributing code or support to
projects that are important in the perspective of the world,
i.e. DVD/CCA, FreesWAN, GNOME/KDE, kernel work, etc. Some of
these do actually have an effect on a community outside our
own(see Arturo's Red
Escolar story), but in the main we don't seem to be a
very philanthropic bunch. Or perhaps all our philanthropic
tendencies are (mis?)directed at things that we understand
most readily: computers and a better way to let the
"underdog" compete. I don't know. Might be a neat project to
start. Trying to get the plethora of shy, ego-centric geeks
out of the house and working on local charity work. Sounds
infeasible. Might have a remarkable impact if it happened,
though.
I've talked enough. We need more monkeys!
Fin.