This is crazy. I thought Myhrvold was like a great guy, making the cookbook and all. I've been studying cooking lately and have been wanting to buy a copy of the $700CAD Modernist Cuisine... But now maybe I don't need to. I'm thankful to have read all these comments. I feel relieved in not having his book.

He was featured on the Michael Pollan series on Netflix called "Cooked", and shown to be a super great smart guy.

Because they choose to not participate in the general rules the rest of the world lives by. Because they either didn't help write those rules, because they chose not to participate in the last few hundred years of human civilization progress, or they think they're better than everyone else, or both.

Thank you for pointing this out. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the handful of comments up to the original post of Bert64. Now I see the light. Getting smarter everyday.

Is this just a trolling question to sample this population and find out what people are doing, then advertise to that? I'm not intending to troll myself here, but this is the first thought that came to mind when I saw the title.

Bloomberg Businessweek a few months ago did an article based on research that found use of heavy duty antibiotics in seafood (mostly shrimp) farming in China. Drugs like colistin are being used. The article talked about how waste from pig farming is somehow used to feed the farmed shrimp. Improting "food" like this into the States is obviously illegal. To add insult to injury, there are shell companies in China, Thailand, etc. set up for the sole purpose of circumventing those legal controls, and the shrimp ends up in North American grocery stores and restaurants. It speculated that perhaps there are these super bad bacteria coming over with them.

I wonder if that's what happened to my desktop at home. About two weeks ago it just wouldn't boot. BIOS does POST but then the little circle thing where it says Starting Windows just dies, and that's it. I ahve been running Windows 10 for awhile now, so I wonder if it was a recent Windows Update. This started on a Wednesday after all...

Computer is a 2008-9 P35 chipset with Q6600, so yeah it's old but still. It was running fine before.

Fascinating. I live in Edmonton also, and find this sucks.

Edmonton has the same problem too, bro. The Whitemud and Yellowhead are clog factories. 75th street, never intended to be a main artery, feels like you're driving through some third world place.The Henday helps, but is only two lanes wide and easily and frequently gets backed up. With the tailgating that goes on everywhere, it just takes one person to hit their brakes and it causes a chain reaction lasting several minutes. This morning I watched a guy almost plow into someone's ass there. There is no more room for all these extra people.

I love the Traffic layer. It works so good. It feels like the data is never really more than 5 minutes old, and when I'm on Highway 2 going home from Nisku to Edmonton every shitty day, I can see exactly where that day's traffic jam starts and ends, and it is like usually bang on. I use it to avoid messes all the time. So good.

But it isn't genius. I don't have those two psychopathic traits, am not emotionally strong not aggressive. I'm not very good at defending myself or my ideas - from my boss, the owner of this machine shop I work in as an engineer (which I have the degree for). He doesn't believe in safety, and I haven't been able to convince him it's important to at least manage the internal liabilities. He just yells and throws tantrums. Like a psychopath (as described in the description).

I've also always never felt like I fitted in, in the places I've worked. I don't know what it is, seems like suspicion of what's going on or who's in charge. But I do know I don't want to be here. It just feels like something is out of alignment.

My biological dad is the same way. He told me about the jobs he had before going off on his own to do consulting, and even though he was competent, people didn't like him. Could be because he showed up late - but stayed late.

So I don't know what the hell to do. I just don't fit in. Maybe I need to go off on my own too.

Look, we in Canada here have our own version of xenophobia. Basically to immigrate here you have to be some sort of professional or a skilled person somehow. Then, the gatekeepers of our professions often keep those people out of the same professsions, for several different reasons. Unless the immigrant knows of a loophole, he can be stuck in limbo, with a Ph.d from where he's from, being relegated to some menial position. I have four examples of such people whom I know personally - but I don't want to cite them here for privacy reasons. Not to mention the "welcome services" for newcomers, who I have seen several times give very bad advice for preparing a resume and finding work.

Anyway, often immigrants here get tied to the purse-strings of a company willing to take them on, and are stuck there at their mercy for some length of time which is difficult to pin down. Usually stuck at a very low wage.

And, stop praising Canada for doing so well economically. Very little new technology is generated here, at least in Alberta. Most of our economy here is digging up resources and squandering the money on sports arenas, or down East, in manufacturing plants for the Big 3 US automakers plus Honda et al.

In conclusion, it's difficult for most immigrants to get started here, unless you're a refugee selected to come settle in a ghetto in one of our cities, continuing the tradition of barbarity, murdering amongst themselves and with poor driving skills.

Ya, without power steering.

Oh yes it will. Lately my second car, a '91 volvo, has been doing this thing when you start it up where it shuts off and loses all electrical power for a few seconds. You can the start it back up. But note that the radio resets, so somehow all power is lost.

Once it happened at speed on the highway. Shut off for about half a second and then started back up on its own, in gear, at 110 km/hr.

Last year on a road trip I made it to Salt Lake City. It's a nice city and I like how the whole metro area is in that valley. But I wanted to also see the Temple square. We got there just in time that day to get a guided tour of some of the areas. It was just me and my friend but a local guy showed up too, huge smile on his face constantly, with his briefcase. He seemed to know that there's a good-sized Mormom community in Edmonton, AB where I'm from. He was just along for the tour even though he'd been through it before, he said.

I found the buildings there impressive, especially that big stage that lifts up hydraulically and stuff. The square itself was also clean and tidy. Later, we were showed around by two young women through the rest of the square. At one point, the nice looking one from San Jose said that Joseph Smith's answer to his question of why there were so many different Christian faith offshoots was to create another one. Seemed wierd to me. Anyway I gave up my phone number and yes I did get calls from them (not the nice looking one) when I got back home. But I wasn't interested in joining. Another wierd thing to me was that those two young women would only spend a limited amount of time with us and whisked themselves away.

He's right. See here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/race-btu-has-begun