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Alison Hawke
Now, March 2025
Hello blog, it's been a while! This is a Now post, a summary of current stuff in my life.
Inputs
Seneca, “Letters from a Stoic”
Obery M. Hendricks Jr , "Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith"
Helen Czerski, "Storm
Recipe: Cheese scones
Modified from my mother's recipe, this is from the second experimental batch. These freeze well, this makes about seven normal scones and Mondo, Giant of The Scone People.
Ingredients:
* 8oz flour (you can mix wheat, rye, einkorn, and other flours)
* 2tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1/
Now, May 2024
Inputs
Charles Duhigg, "Supercommunicators"
Shane Parrish, "Clear Thinking”
Maryville University classes in:
• Data Visualization
• Experimental design
W.i.S.H. is a new India pop girl band who have released two singles, Lazeez (Delicious) and Galti (Mistake), I love both of them! The lyrics blend Hindi and
Un-serious gender-neutral group forms of address
Trying to get "foolish mortals" accepted as a good gender-neutral group form of address.
"Hello foolish mortals, thank you for coming to my meeting."
Posted on Mastodon
Lots of people had opinions for alternatives:
Foolish mortals
Dearest citizens
Mortals and Immortals, Animals, Minerals, and Flora, lend
Masala Chai!
I've been making my own masala chai (spiced tea, मसाला चाय) from this Nik Sharma recipe, using his chai masala (tea spice) recipe with a few modifications.
Spice blend:
* 1 tsp ground ginger (or minced ginger)
* 6 green cardamom pods or 1 quarter tsp cardamom seeds
Now, end of 2023 edition
Inputs
Reading John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series, on the third book now and enjoying the world he’s created. Book 2 made me care for a character far more than I expected to from the first few chapters, book 3 is shaping up to be interesting too.
All-human posts, no AI-generated content
(Image from Clive Thompson, image license CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International)
Cat speeds (observed)
Speed: Zero
Asleep. Eyes closed, no response to touch or sound. A rare stillness.
Speed: Stalk
Prey sighted, in stealthy pursuit. Slow, measured tread with frequent stops to freeze in place.
Speed: Jaunty trot
Tail up, bouncy step, cat is happy.
Speed: Full sprint
Flat-out run, maximum speed, no cornering
FP Inks that change colour when you don't want them to
I started keeping a fountain pen ink journal a few months ago, and one thing I started doing on the index page, which is in the back, is putting the name of the ink, a tiny swatch, and a second tiny swatch if the ink colour changes while it is