Thu, Jun 07 2007

Hops

The Reuters headline read: Spanish nuns show hops are good for you. What this writer's mind pictured was something like the nuns playing volleyball in a photo that accompanied a Time article.

What can I say? I've never been a beer drinker. Apparently, I'm also not a beer thinker.

posted at: 11:36 | category: /Health and Fitness | link to this entry

From coffee to blob, from morning to midnight

It's been one of those mornings. I turned on the coffeemaker without having set the basket in place and ended up with very hot water splashing directly into the carafe and everywhere else.

Things eventually settled into a ragged sort of rhythm for me, but then I ran across The Blob. I'm wondering how many of us live near these kinds of monsters that could soon be killing whole populations. We're all running around discussing global warming while Mother Earth is experiencing an undercover toxic reflux from generations of industrial waste.

I suppose part of the reason it bothered me so much to read about The Blob is that I had some leftover angst from having had the coffeemaker quietly eject water all over the place while I was in another room thinking it was making coffee as usual. By the time I realized what had happened, I had to cool the machine for a minute by turning it off, refill its reservoir with fresh water, put the coffee filter in place and begin the process all over again. We may not get a chance to start over when it comes to toxins like The Blob.

posted at: 11:04 | category: /Science | link to this entry