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Cutting Boards

I only use wooden or bamboo cutting boards. Plastic or acrylic ones dull your knives, and a dull knife on a slick surface (especially made slicker by the juice escaping from whatever you’re cutting up) is going to slip. Some people prefer plastic cutting boards in the mistaken belief that plastic ones don’t allow bacteria …read more…

Published on: 14 March 2012 by Ken

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Thanks

Thanks to Greg Z. for the recent contribution.

Published on 9 March 2012 at 6:23 pm

Published on 15 February 2012 at 11:53 pm

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Published on 12 February 2012 at 6:00 am

Our brains are dulled by the incurable mania of wanting to make the unknown known.

André Breton

Published on 30 January 2012 at 3:00 pm

the envelope please….

Just so I don’t forget, my new address is: Kenneth John Odle PO Box 215 Portage, MI 49081 You can send me stuff there. Here are the demographics of my new address. I’ve got a lot of stuff to get done in the next few days, so if you don’t hear from me in all …read more…

Published on: 23 January 2012 by Ken

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let’s make biscuits!

This has been a pretty strange day. I slept far later than I intended to—about 10:30. (Those of you who know me in real life know that 8:00 am is sleeping in for me, so 10:30 is like coming out of a coma.) Yesterday was a long day—about fourteen hours between the two jobs—and while …read more…

Published on: 21 January 2012 by Ken

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aliens keep stealing my pencils

I always take along a bunch of sharpened pencils when I substitute teach. I don’t want a kid sitting there doing nothing because they don’t have something to write with, and you would be surprised how many teachers don’t provide any sort of writing implement, and how many don’t have a functioning pencil sharpener in …read more…

Published on: 21 January 2012 by Ken

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Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Published on 21 January 2012 at 12:03 pm

In modern society the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity.

Rollo May

Published on 19 January 2012 at 6:00 am

Now we rise
And we are everywhere

Nick Drake

Published on 19 January 2012 at 12:22 am

Help Stop SOPA and PIPA from ending the Internet as we know it

I am so incredibly busy right now, mostly doing stuff I’d rather not be doing*, but I’m going to take a moment to stop all that and urge you to read this: WordPress ”º Help Stop SOPA/PIPAhttp://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/help-stop-sopa-pipa/You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant …read more…

Published on: 17 January 2012 by Ken

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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published on 15 January 2012 at 3:00 pm