New glasses!
Published:
- From AARP’s August/September 2017 issue: (the one with the gorgeous cover by Peter Max ) (also petermax.com)
- Robert Sapolsky (Stanford neurobiologist) has an article called “Your Brain Behaving Badly,” in which there’s a superficial discussion about the effects of stress and trauma on our lives and bodies. (To which I always think, “No f’in’ duh!”) He has a book called Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst which might be interesting. It caught my eye because I’ve been under extreme stress and behaved in ways that were irrational and unprofessional. I’m observing the same phenomenon in co-workers and wonder what’s happened/happening in their lives to cause such reactions to obvious stressors.
- From an article by Robert Love titled “Summer of Love: 1967-2017” (one of my favorite time periods to study)
- A recipe for Maple-Almond granola which looks healthy enough for me to try. (From Myra Goodman of Earthbound Farm)
- Projected menu for the week:
- Roasted Eggplant Soup (I’m adapting this recipe to suit my needs)
- Bonus rant: If recipes (just the recipe) can’t be easily printed, or saved to Pinterest, the food blogger has failed their audience. I do not want to wade through personal memories and scads of pictures to get to the recipe. Put the recipe, with directions, in a useful format at the top. And then talk about whatever and post pictures. I probably wound up on your site because of a recipe search, so I want the recipe. Then you can woo me with other stuff. Also? A print feature … not that hard to install with today’s blogging technologies.
- Slow-Cooker Curried Chicken With Ginger and Yogurt (a favorite recipe)
- Baked fruit (a work in progress)
- Pumpkin Energy Balls – without the chocolate chips (or as I call them, “Breakfast Balls”)
- Mandarin oranges
- Reading:
- Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed (SFMOMA catalogue) – completed
- Who I Am by Pete Townshend (also TheWho.com)
- New to the Stacks:
- Watching:
- Ripper Street (BBC America on Netflix)
- Just finished this fascinating series about Victorian era Whitechapel, London (home to Jack the Ripper). The final season neatly tied everything up in a bow. It was a little flat for me, probably due the lack of Inspector Drake, and the utterly predictable shenanigans of Long Susan and Captain Jackson. Good to see the deliciously malevolent Inspector Shine.
- And this odd connection to Jack the Ripper. Probably more than I really wanted to know.
- Just finished this fascinating series about Victorian era Whitechapel, London (home to Jack the Ripper). The final season neatly tied everything up in a bow. It was a little flat for me, probably due the lack of Inspector Drake, and the utterly predictable shenanigans of Long Susan and Captain Jackson. Good to see the deliciously malevolent Inspector Shine.
- Gotham – Season 3 (Netflix)
- James Gordon gone rogue? Noooooo, say it isn’t so.
- Comrade Detective (Amazon Video)
- Romanian communist propaganda buddy cop show which imitates the tropes of Western cops shows and Americans in general. And just misses.
- These:
- Beginner’s Guide to Fela Kuti
- NASA accepting proposals to build 2,000 housing units at Moffett Field
- Need to do THIS
- New Pins: