Saturday, January 31, 2026

An insight into adjective order

Considering the difference between "big, red ball" and "red, big ball", the former allows both adjectives to accumulate for a ball object, while the latter forces 'red' to be a single adjective of a compound "big ball" object.

I have been writing about lexicons of object (topic) types and wrestling with how colored sub-types are defined before sized subtypes. The lexicon itself defines 'isKindOf' relations that are physical and only one-way. So, the adjective order is hard-wired and, presumably, it comes from the history of how those object types were stored to create the actual lexicon. In other words, it comes down to the timing when those adjective types were acquired.

Friday, January 30, 2026

When the Swiss Chard cooks the Swiss Chard

I was thinking about mathematics and how, so often, the entities become self-reflexive - like when "1" is used as the endpoint of an interval that started at "0". As I drifted off to sleep, I started thinking about a leaf of Swiss Chard cooking a pan of Swiss Chard. 

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Is what goes unmentioned still there?

Let's say you have a pet dog named Rover. You know lots of things about Rover but you could have an entire conversation about the tricks you taught him without ever mentioning those other things. Here is my question: in what state are those other things during that time?

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Apple Empanada

So, if you make a dough with 1 cup of flour 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of baking powder, 1/4 stick of butter and 1/3 cup milk. Then wrap pieces of it around slightly stewed apple/cinnamon/sugar/butter filling. This gives you a starter empanada. You can certainly bake it but if you fry it in peanut oil until golden brown, you get something pretty delicious.

Was thinking of calling them "Apple Fried Hand Pies".

Sunset from 103 Gardiner Rd


 Sunset from 103 Gardiner Rd - upper house.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Onion Fritters

Got this from the internet. (No eggs needed). It is really good.

Ingredients: 1 large white onion, 1/3 cup flour, 1/3 cup milk, 1/2 tsp salt, pepper and paprika to taste.

Slice onion as thinly as possible

Mix ingredients thoroughly. The result is slightly clumpy but does not really hold together. 

Heat peanut and olive oil in cast iron skillet - maybe ~1/4 inch deep. Turn to high heat.

Drop clumps of onion mixture, flatten out to make a pancake shape. Let cook for ~5 minutes, on each side - till brown but not black.