Em oi! #308: Our Honeymoon, a Recap (part 3/3)

Part one is here, part two is here. So normally in this situation I would have said, “Let’s get a cab and go find some ritzy place to have lunch.”  But Bryan was on a diet consisting of a) bananas b) saltine crackers c) soup, so we couldn’t.  Neither did we think that hanging around [...]

Peanut Stew

From the Burkina Faso-ian roommate of my best friend.  I guess you could also call this “African Peanut Stew” if you wanted to be specific.  Or rather, if you google “African Peanut Stew” you will get similar recipes.   My guess is that in Africa they just call it “Peanut Stew,” though. Ingredients (This was made [...]

Photo

This is used for rituals at a Buddhist temple in Vientaine, Laos.  Later I made this photo into a pin.  I wonder where that got to.  It was pretty neat.

The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women

Excerpt from Some of the Reasons Against Woman Suffrage, by Francis Parkman, possibly published around 1910, but written before then: Woman suffrage must have one of two effects.  If, as many of its advocates complain, women are subserviant to men, and do nothing but what they desire, then woman suffrage will have no other result [...]

Two Apple Cake Recipes

I am just cranking out the apple-based desserts. I also made apple sauce. And guess what – there’s still apples left. This first cake is adapted from here.  I sort of de-veganized it.

Madison Photos

I really like Madison in the spring.  Summer is also decent – clear skys, and I can usually deal with the heat while running, so that’s not a big deal.  Autumn is gorgeous in the upper midwest.  But winter is tough, especially if you’re like me and cold all the time.  So I decided to [...]

Goodbye, Cruel World.

Once upon a time I started through a book on C (possibly C++) that had us write “Goodbye, Cruel World” programs instead of “Hello, World!” programs. I am eventually going to write a few things here.  But for now I think I’m going to go do some editing of my poor, neglected novel, so I [...]