Hooman! I am looking at you!

Casting shadows

Walk away from the tyranny of convenience

A couple fine podcasts for your listening delectation:

The first is entitled "The Joy of Walking" from BBC radio's The Documentary. It's partly about how the simple act of going for a walk has multiple benefits to stories such as one about a doctor who has integrated walks with patients into their healthcare regimen.

The second is from CBC's Ideas podcast - "The inconvenient truth about convenience culture". An interesting jeremiad against the onrush of AI and the concept of letting machines do everything for us, generally speaking.

It looks at the view that embrace of convenience is a progressive one, one that indicates you welcome the future which, by definition, is better than the present. There's also the proposition that convenience is anti-human, essentially, but also incredibly difficult to opt out of.

Lots of food for thought.

Song of the day, 9 October 2026

While I haven't given the new Son Volt the proper listening to that it deserves, the lead off track is an instant classic.

A cat and her toys

Song of the day, 8 October 2026

Since I and my music movie watching pal went to see Queen Budapest last night on the IMAX, today it's some Queen.

Booties

Cooking up a storm, continued

I am not going to have to cook for a few days now. In addition to the bread and clafoutis, I also made a quiche this past weekend.

A simple one, really - ham, cheddar, and onion.

It turned out well and I made sure to garnish it for my ladyfriend.

A friend of my lady's is Ukrainian and she brought over some homemade borscht for us.

It was excellent! I'd never had borscht with beans in it before.

Last night I baked a porketta from Fraboni's and there's plenty of leftovers so I am taking a few days off from cooking outside of making coffee, tea, and perhaps toast.

Pounce!

Cookin'

Yesterday I did a lot of cooking for my ladyfriend and her guests. One visitor brought some Asian pears and I turned a few of them into a clafoutis.

It turned out alright and was quite tasty. I made it with einkorn instead of normal hard red wheat or whatever your typical all-purpose flour is made of hoping that my ladyfriend wouldn't suffer any achy joints after eating it. Plus I have just started using einkorn and am running it through its paces. I have an idea of its limitations in breadmaking and now I want to learn how other treats turn out when using it.

I also made a loaf of maple bread.

The recipe called for 3 tablespoons of maple syrup and the bread had a slight maple flavor to it. Very good and I can imagine that it would make some fine French toast.

(I also made another apple crisp.)

Will loves her tunnel