Some people are drawn to places similar to where they grew up. Others go for the exact opposite of the environments of their childhoods. The preferred habitats may be natural or human-made. When given a choice, people gravitate to where they can be most themselves and at peace. Julian grew up in Miami, long before …
May 2018 archive
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May 25
Neli, Screen Addict
Neli can text, turn on iTunes, and play games on the iPhone. Yes, there are smart phone games for smart cats. For example, here is the one that Neli is playing in the above video while Julian is watching football. The object of the game is to catch and crush the animated bugs. She’s so addicted …
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May 19
Tunes for Menial Tasks
After I took the picture of the steamboats (see A Serendipitous Sight), I put the phone on the dining room table. Somehow Neli managed to get Siri to play my iTunes. She sat next to the phone and listened intently. This cat is WAY too smart for our own good,
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May 19
A Serendipitous Sight
Sometimes serendipity strikes in the midst of menial tasks. I was attempting to scrape the schmutz out of the gas grill when I heard a steam whistle. Since Casa Sammamish is nowhere near an old railroad, it had to be the mini steamboats. I ran downstairs and grabbed the phone to take a picture. Last …
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May 17
Rolling the Dice
A Monte Carlo simulation is a statistical technique to determine the probability of an event. The analysis is done by computer, because it would be far too tedious to make 500 or more runs of the simulation by hand. It’s commonly used to predict how long your assets will last in retirement. I’ve discovered two …
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May 14
For the Love of Bunny
[Sensitive souls might want to skip this post.] Yes, I like bunnies. I like to eat them. I know that my appetite for rabbit is not shared by many Americans, some of whom were traumatized by the “pets or meat” scene in Michael Moore’s first film, Roger and Me. Below are three reasons why you …
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May 10
Another Feathered Fatality
We’ve had a male pheasant in the neighborhood for the last week. It’s roosted on our roof and wandered around the street. Saturday I was doing some work in the front yard and heard a strange squawk. It was the pheasant, hanging out in the driveway next door. Alas, the pheasant died earlier this week. …
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May 07
The Symbol of Bothell
Paris has the Eiffel Tower. London has Big Ben. New York has the Statue of Liberty. Saint Louis has the Arch. Bothell has the Chicken. This proud monument to poultry towers (about 15 ft) over the entrance to Country Village, an old-timey-themed collection of shops on a landscaped site just north of downtown Bothell. …
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May 05
Probiotic Night
Thursday night I bought some short ribs for Korean grilled kalbi. We’ve found a great recipe from The New York Times. The ribs marinate overnight in a soy sauce-onion-puréed pear mixture, then get grilled. So where do the probiotics come in? We served the ribs with napa cabbage kimchi and fermented pickled beets (not traditional, …
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May 05
The Shady Garden
We finally got some plants for the planters out front. It took a bit of consultation to select them. We sought input from Molbak’s. Our next door neighbor posted a query on Facebook. I emailed my sophomore roommate, who’s a horticulture professor in Virginia. Then we visited Sky Nursery and met Heather, one of the …
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