“Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yoghurt. Yoghurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is spoiled when it starts to look like regular cheese. Regular cheese is nothing but spoiled milk anyway - if you can dig down and still find something non-green, bon appetite!” Source

The biggest way that I’m preparing for school in the fall is by going to work every day and making money so that I won’t starve when I get there. :-) But there’s other things too… Like today I practiced driving and drove Mom up to No Frills for a shopping expedition. It was very informative, but kind of an overload at the same time. I may do GroceryGateway and I may shop, I’m not sure, but either way, I’ll need to have some idea of what I’m doing. Anyhow, in the store, it was every twenty feet that she’d say ‘Oh, this is really easy, all you do is sauté this and throw in a pinch of that and then add the rice and simmer for a bit and add something else and… and…’ Yeah, so I was thinking I should make a list of my top twenty or so favorite recipes and keep them in a binder. And then I was thinking it would be cool to keep them in a database so that I could add to it and sort it and whatever. I’m such a n00b with the whole database thing that it would probably be a good exercise to develop it. And then it could be hosted here and available to anyone in my position. That being the position of someone used to excellent food with zero effort invested suddenly thrust into the scary outside world of meal preparation. I mean, I’ll probably only spend time preparing a couple meals a week and let the rest be Kraft Dinner or pizza or leftover pizza, but some is better than none. Mike

PS - There’s an article up on India Times claiming that a water-fuelled car is right around the corner. There isn’t much science cited in the article, so I dunno what they’re doing with it besides burning the hydrogen from water. They claim to have successful road tests… but for such an immense scientific discovery, it seems amazing that no other major news outlet has picked it up. Is India Times just some tabloid that I wasn’t aware of? If anyone has followup information on this story, I’d appreciate a mail.

PS2 - It seems there’s an official site up about this project. There’s a bunch of stuff on there about vibrating the water molecules at their resonant frequency to make them break apart… I don’t know enough chemistry to tell if that’s bull or not. But if it works, awesome!

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