It’s misting rain and about 55 degrees here with some light breezes. This weather is damn near perfect as far as I’m concerned. I have a topic for my Linguistics paper. It’s going to be on Tom Wait’s changing use of metaphor and regional dialect in his songs. This might be the weiredest paper topic ever but my professor seemed about 50% as excited as I was and the man is near comatose when he starts class at 8am so this is a big step forward. I’m reading Virgina Woolf’s To The Lighthouse which I was sort of indifferent toward thematically until the end when it crossed into really good and interesting territory. I just started Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound” which is also awesome. Classes are awesome, learning is awesome, reading is awesome: Life is pretty good. Just have to stay on top of everything. Time to read some more stuff for class. I also made a pretty good corn and ham soup.
Recipe:
1 can sweet corn
1 can chicken broth
~3/4 cup diced ham steak
~1/2 cup heavy cream
add these things in a pot, grind in some black pepper,
heat at low boil until you get bored +10 minutes. (i think i boiled it for like 30 approx but you’re not cooking anything really so it’s not that important)
eat with bread.
This seemed to yeild an interesting mix of combined sweetness from the corn and saltyness from the broth and the meaty ham taste. It was pretty good and filling with the creamy broth and all the stuff in there. (and all the break I ate while waiting for it to cook.)
on an unrelated note: I’m pretty pissed none of the “buy this” buttons seem to work in steam regardless of what I do. I really just want to play Portal.
Also, this wind generator that works like the Tacoma narrows shouldn’t have is pretty awesome. It’d be great to see these get made and used, I wonder what the output wattage for something about a meter long would be, or if you could put them under the spans of bridges like the Tacoma narrows, assuming they were designed to take those sorts of extra stresses, this seems like a logical place to put them since I can recall dropping things from the north side of the Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson and watching them get essentially sucked south by the wind directly under the deck of the bridge. Also, the inventor of that wind generator appears to be a colleague of a recent Macarthur Genius Award recipient. (here via Wired.)
