Wait, how interactive? Because, you know, Macbeth ain't alls well that ends well...

Yep. Grains, beans and (white) rice, millet, corn, etc. will keep unrefrigerated for a good year or two, toss in some sun-dried tomatoes for flavour (okay, I will admit to cheating and using store-bought ketchup). Ferment the beans or grains for extra flavour (e.g. some corn meal, water to cover, a bit of salt, wait a day or two, depending on ambient temperature). Dried kale also keeps well, mix it into various things. Or try Moroccan preserved lemons (yep, fermented) with rice or chickpeas (these are best sprouted). I am out of sauerkraut at the moment, but do have some fermented kohlrabi from some weeks ago that I should crack open...

I guess I should mention that I turned off the refrigerator at home years ago. It does a fine job holding up the sourdough starter.

> (Also, drinking nine of anything per day sounds horrible.)

Really? /me goes to check on how the huckleberry mead is doing.

(Mead, obviously, has a very poor glycemic index and a poor nutrient balance and is in all ways utterly unhealthy and thus unsuitable for consumption. Citizens should instead for their proper health only drink SteriBland(R) NutryDense(TM).)

Err, no, programming still requires a goodly amount of study and understanding, regardless how the various complexities have been hidden. The margin for error remains rather low--how are those Andriods doing? Car entertainment systems? Browsers? And in the department of learning from history, I present, CVE-2013-4259 and CVE-2014-3563 for two shiny new configuration management softwares. How long have /tmp security problems been known? Two decades, at least? Now, marketing programming to folks that might be interested in beginning that journey is a different story, and probably more in line with what Apple is attempting here.

One need only recall Kurosawa's "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960) to note that nothing really has changed.

Mmm, no. One lesson from history would be the technological advance that is the analog computer, and the fact that this technology was lost for some number of centuries. In particular, the Antikythera mechanism (~205 BCE?) and subsequent reinvention of the analog computer (~14th century CE). Thus, technological advance is an insufficient guide, as it did nothing to prevent the Greek and Roman civilizations (and indeed every past civilization, ever) from faceplanting. Such faceplants probably had some impact on the jobs market--mead-maker for local warlord, assuming one survives?

Perhaps optimists would know these cycles of history if they were not so busy fitting straight lines to semi-log graph paper and calling things good?

Awkward theater? No'h!

Yes, yes, everyone gets up and dances until the economy craters due to overproduction and a lack of consumers for said goods. But do let's forget the roaring twenties and associated rampant consumerism and stock market speculation, eh?

No, but I've helped shepherd a six-figure chunk of carbon or two through a small online retailer in my time. Rather uncommon, which I believe is just the point the original poster made. What was yours?

No, Washington could use fewer roads. Seattle in particular has blown the "bridging the gap" funds on mostly making the Mercer mess that much more a horrible stroad, and with WSDOT stuck in pave-like-it's-1959 mode despite construction costs increasing faster than inflation (yeah, maintenance, how about that?) car sitters have the enviable joy of higher taxes--at least they're hitting you with a gas tax increase, instead of the Federal method of pretending that all is well while stealing from the General fund to keep the utterly broken Highway Trust Fund seemingly solvent. Prediction: induced demand will destroy the short-term benefit of any new pavement they might slap down, leaving you once again stuck in congestion, though now with a higher maintenance bill due to all those new roads. Derp! The long future: look to Iowa.

Otherwise, you do sound bitter. Maybe try walking more, or taking the bus? All that stress from road rage really isn't healthy.

Let me guess, it tries to eat the USS Constellation?

They only managed token ring wraiths, though.

... or you buy those two redundant lines and then, some outage later, discover they run through the same Local Exchange Carrier. Good fun!

My money is on a rogue backhoe for this one.

Yes, that DC is still in business is truly a MARVEL.

"The supersonics are comingas surely as tomorrow. You will be flying one version or another by 1980 and be trying to remember what the great debate was all about." -- Najeeb Halaby, administrator, FAA.

Uh yeah. About that.

The triumphant little guy sticks it to The Man, news at 11. More like, the distributed smart grid (or whatever) turns out to somehow be more expensive and less secure than advertised, and given the noteworthy lack of philosopher kings to run it, regulations become necessary to curb the worst misuses and excesses. (Assuming the distributed smart grid (or whatever) is actually viable.) Meanwhile, back in the real world, note the progress of solar in Japan, where the utilities (that would be, the folks running the grid) are somehow unhappy about having to both eat higher costs and to install new infrastructure to support all the new solar stuff.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...

Eh, what, developers are not offering parking?

"The recommendations (all meeting materials available here) were based on a survey of 219 newly reviewed or permitted residential developments in parts of Seattle where no parking is required, which found that three-quarters of developers are choosing to build parking anyway"
http://seattletransitblog.com/...

So, 75% of developers without all the usual minimum parking mandates choose to plonk out parking slabs anyways. Could you perhaps expand on what you mean by "too many of them get build without parking" in light of this? Are the mere 25% who choose not to waste space and money on parking really that objectionable? (Disclaimer: car-free in Seattle since, oh, 1994 or so, so lack of parking is a huge bonus in my book. About time we go more of that.)

Meanwhile, on the ugly townhomes front, the following is fairly indicative of how things played out.

http://seattleurbanism.blogspo...