Aesop’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf And Was Told By The Farmers On The Embankment, Oh, You’re Surprised There’s A Wolf? You’re Tending Sheep, Didn’t You Read that Article In The Atlantic Last Year About This? Here Is A Link It Will Only Take You Fifteen Minutes To Read Oh By The Way It Looks Like The Wolf Ate Your Whole Flock, That Is Really Unfortunate And We Sure Do Hate It.”
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(not knocking the book, it’s a sign of a good recipe imo when there’s more than one way to do a thing instead of trying to elevate technique over outcomes)
the beans were good!
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making chilean sea bass and dry fried green beans and right off the bat the book I’m using ( http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/books/the-food-of-sichuan/) for the beans cops that while you could dry fry them, most people deep fry them, and for another thing, you can also just bake them and then stir fry them, which is what I’m doing because I’m feeling p lazy this evening
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I’ve got a date-night sitter booked tonight but my date is out of town so I looked at event calendars for the usual haunts and, hey neat, Robert Cherny presents "San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919 to 1958.”, 7-8:30, at Bird & Beckett ( https://birdbeckett.com, https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=week&src=r5o3loovr013c5rftpv75lji18@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles).
Baring any complications (my kid has a cold that could but probably won’t escalate), I’m there.
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o/ to the product manager or whoever is responsible for apple’s “Reactions” menubar feature inventing or using a new and immature notification flow to tell me when my browser turns the feature off, we see you and appreciate you
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w/ the right latin music, the construction work outside can just join the percussion section https://youtu.be/8AGrQaH9Qlk?si=2h8QeM6WcaGbwRMg.
You’ve got your drummer, your conga player, and your certified skid steer jack hammer / breaker operator.
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have a great saturday y’all
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we have potted plans from at least three friends who left SF (and CA, it turns out), and one is an orchid that I never figured out how to do much with beyond keep alive for two years.
so we asked at the garden center and they suggested orchid food (sticks and spray) and sure enough, when fed, the primary sprout poked back up and grew 12" or so in the past few months and now we’ve got maybe four flowers to look forward to.
idk if/how we could have helped the first four buds which died off.
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was catching up on the O.G. after suggesting this doc to a friend and found out / was reminded maybe/why Donald Fagan’s response to being asked to be involved in any way was to say "fuck you”