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Lions go on the offensive Witnesses claim a pride of 15 lions attacked homes in Liboi and Kulan in the Garissa district on Sunday night, while villagers were asleep. Police reported that at least three people died and a further two were seriously injured. Senior politicians in the Garissa region said the attacks began after . . . → Read More: Don’t mess with the big cats At class today, we did a bunch of stunt karate, including board breaking. Now, everyone knows that board breaking is completely useless in terms of self defense, but it sure is fun. Provided that you break the board on the first try. “It only hurts if you fail.” My hand is, well, umm, a mass . . . → Read More: Break I got my teeth fixed today. The cap / repair / bonding agent / whatever that I had installed on a front tooth when I was 13 decided to fall off while I was in Haiti. The dentist fixed me right up, including: * Local anesthetic (yay for anesthesia!) * Grinding with carbide and diamond . . . → Read More: Teeth After the little adventure on Thursday, where the deadbolt on one of our doors seized up, requiring me to go after it with a vice-grips, I replaced both deadbolts and both doorknobs. This involved purchasing a chisel, since anything I open or disassemble in this house invariably reveals some sort of hack-job that I can’t . . . → Read More: Day, week, month, year? Right now, my political platform is down to three things: * Domestic policy: Citizenship ought not to be automatically conferred based on where your mother was when you gained separate life. It ought not to be based on heritage, and it ought not to be based on property. Citizenship should be continually earned. You accept . . . → Read More: More of the platform There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. We picked up our first food from the Scratch Farm today. It was everything I had dared to hope and dream. A little stack of half-bushel boxes on a table, tended by two young, idealistic women. The boxes were filled with spring lettuce, pea shoots, baby broccoli, beet thinnings, and so on. They even gave . . . → Read More: Farm veggies! Thanks for this, rjb5. West MN Technical college offers a course: Sausage Theory MTMC.1115 – Sausage Theory (1) This course covers the use of raw materials, non-meat ingredients that are important to manufacturing of sausage. Formulation of meat blocks and recipes will be covered. Of course, it’s a pre-req for: MTMC.1155 – Adv Sausage Theory(1) . . . → Read More: Sausage theory |
