Wednesday Morning

Trash day. I did away with that old bag of bird feed. I am tired of moving it about whenever I have to take care of the cat food. This tells you how confident I am about my right foot getting better. I actually still count on getting my foot back, but just not very soon. I have my heart set on July, but I am not taking bets.

Chrome vs. IE

So, my suspicions were well-founded. It is only Chrome that does not allow YouTube videos to be conveniently converted to full-screen. They actually push us to use another browser if we want that convenience. It's funny, they own YouTube. Why would they use their product to push us away from their browser?

Whatever. We are now back to IE. Like the good old days, when the Internet was new and I was still kind of young. Ah, the sweet year of 2003, with February drizzle on my window.

Lo (1,11) Dreaming on Lo

Humbert is still reading from his diary of that delirious summer when he was boarding in the Haze household, when that sweet piece of forbidden fruit was so near but still quite far.

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Only in the tritest of terms can I describe Lo’s features: I might say her hair is auburn, and her lips as red as licked red candy, the lower one prettily plump - oh, that I were a lady writer who could have her pose naked in a naked light! But instead I am lanky, big-boned, wooly chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows and a queer accent, and a cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile.

-- “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov

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Celebrities and Stuff

Having spent more than two weeks recovering from a sinus infection and allergic reaction that left her hospitalised, the jury was out on whether Miley Cyrus would be back to her twerking best, as her Bangerz world tour finally resumed at London’s O2 Arena on May 7. As it turned out, her Smilers had nothing to worry about.

-- ONTD

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Pie

Did I eat too much pie? I was surprised that Pop brought one home, and I couldn’t help over-indulging. I hope I don’t throw-up tonight. Need to remember to get Pepcid AC with the groceries on Friday.

Naps

Wow, in addition to the post-breakfast nap, the afternoon nap, the pre-dinner nap, I have now pioneered the pre-bedtime nap. This is now my idea of a fun life. I have become my mother.

Soylent

Within the last few weeks, or months, I read about a group who came up with a food substitute: a liquidy concoction that contains all the nutrients you need. I was pretty excited by that news, because I never did learn how to eat well, and a long time ago I fantasized that it would be nice if someone came up with something like this, though I imagined that it would have the consistency of toothpaste and come out of a tube.

I wasn’t sure if this news wasn’t a joke, though, because they named their creation Soylent. Although Charlton Heston’s movie was forty years ago, it is a classic and is not forgotten. But this Soylent seems to be the real deal. I just wish we could buy some. I checked Amazon, but this is one item they don’t have, and if they don’t have it, probably nobody does. As it so happens, the creator put up the recipe online, but I don’t trust myself like that.

I mention this because we have a new article on this invention, titled "The End of Food", giving us some colorful background. I am keeping the first part of the article for an excerpt.

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Pop

Pop is vacuuming the big room. He was going to hose the patio chairs earlier, but it had gotten too late. So, he is doing this. I feel some temptation to ask if he would like to clean my shower. He has done it before, at least once, as I recall. I think I was away on a library trip. If it would get my shower scrubbed down, I go to the library now.