If you encounter a shark underwater...

Back away slowly and don't run.

Faint-hearted town names of Central Connecticut

Heading towards Providence from Tolland CT we pass: Dayville, Willington, Killingsly. I comment to Barb that they did not seem to have expended much energy in choosing town names. 

We spent the week in Dayville. It was too long.

What about Maybe CT or Sort Of CT or going from Willingly to Killingville.

Brisket and cole slaw

Getting ready:

Coleslaw brine

I suspected there was a way of leaching out some liquid from the shredded cabbage, before making the slaw. This recipe, from How To Make Real New York Deli Coleslaw more than fits the bill. The idea is that shredded cabbage should be tossed together with a brine, and let sit for 8 hours. Then you drain it, add 3/4cups mayo and are done. So:

1 medium cabbage, shredded extra fine (maybe add some shredded carrot)

For the brine ⅓ cup white vinegar ⅓ cup water ⅓ cup sugar 3 tablespoons vegetable oil ½ cup onion - grated 1 ¼ teaspoons fine sea salt ½ teaspoon white pepper

Blueberry Muffins

 Taken from here: To Die For Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Muffins:

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

¾ cup white sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

⅓ cup vegetable oil

1 large egg

⅓ cup milk, or more as needed

1 cup fresh blueberries

Crumb Topping:

½ cup white sugar

⅓ cup all-purpose flour

¼ cup butter, cubed

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 8 muffin cups or line with paper liners.

Whisk (dry ingredients) flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl.

Pour oil into a small liquid measuring cup. Add egg and enough milk to reach the 1-cup mark; stir until combined.

Pour into flour mixture and mix just until batter is combined. Fold in blueberries; set batter aside.

To make the crumb topping: Combine sugar, flour, butter, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Mix with a fork until crumbly.

Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling right to the top. Sprinkle with crumb topping.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.

A preamble

Probably all idiosyncratic projects begin with vanity but, in their pursuit, accomplish new discoveries and new ideas which overtake the personal motivations, replacing them with bold new positions; allowing the researcher to sit back later, with a certain smugness, believing themselves to have done something useful.

Thus was the arc of my travels to Nevada.

AI represents humanity just giving up

Evolution is HARD