Sociopathic Soccer Moms Kill 3

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1237890.php

1. Drunk driving mom in her big fast Lexus passes on the right at 90, hits guardrail, kills her 6 year old son by hitting it so hard that the seatbelt is ripped out of the car and he's ejected.

2. Hapless hamburglars running from botched auto theft get run over on freeway. Woman calls cops from a bar some time later to say that there was clothing and human remains stuck to the bottom of her minivan and she "may have been involved in an accident" earlier.

I'm not including the other news story about the woman whose tire blew up and her 12 year old kid was ejected due to no seat belt, even though three other occupants of that car had no seatbelt either, because for all I know she could have been yelling at them to buckle up when it happened.

My new discipline is to be called "Forensic Futurology"

1. This newly translated novel by an unpronouncable Kenyan looks very good. I like the idea of the dictator who wants to build the world's biggest structure and instead gets bigger and bigger himself.
   
   
2. They don't look like the sort of earring men usually wear, but I'm attracted by the idea of a neurotransmitter hanging off my ear. I'd choose dopamine I think.
   
   
3. Green stuff might make computers faster. Maybe I should try that green marker on the CD thing now too.
   
   
4. NORWEGIAN SALMON CREAM CHEESE GOLDEN CRUST PIZZA
   
   
5. If you're near a Philippine volcano, the full moon may actually be very dangerous.

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Continuing Education in homph homph homph homph

I'm not a good cook in any complete sense. I've never been to a cooking school and there are huge gaps in my skills and knowledge. I'm a dilettante; I learn what interests me and get as good as I can at it. There are some things I wanted to master and I did them over and over and over again and got very good. There are some other really basic things I'm no good at. I check something off when I'm consistently successful at it.

This week I hit the target conclusively on marinara sauce, shellfish cookery, and mesquite-smoked meat cooked on a charcoal grill. Those had all been long journeys of improvement, especially the last one.

I recently hit my groove with omelets so they now come out just about perfect every time. The same is true for stir-fried eggplant. About a year ago I got most fish cookery, at least sautéeing, poaching, and baking, to a routine. I can also roast a chicken and get consistent results.

Two years ago I "arrived" with potato salad, stirfried green beans, cornbread, basic curry sauce, pot roast, ginger/molasses carrots, barbecue type sauces, and a slew of salads mostly with garlic or beets or cabbage or all of those in them.

It's time to make another list of things to learn.