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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Broken Wing   An eagle going into a power dive is the most spectacular predator on the planet. Streamlined, they shed air resistance and plunge at speeds unimaginable to humans, even in free fall, until the past few decades.   Their limits are the G forces they can withstand as the immoveable ground looms below, the strength of their wings, and the instinct to convert their vertical velocity to horizontal velocity in time to avoid the disastrous effects of underestimating gravity.   The common prey of raptors have adapted to this by not straying far from the protective objects of earth and forest canopy. It is not always enough (or the eagles would starve) but it is enough that prey species can survive.   You don’t hear about young impetuous eagles crashing into trees or breaking their wings by pulling up too quickly after exceeding their natural velocity, but it probably happens. Nature is equally cruel to predator and prey alike. 9:47:48 PM    comment []

Delivery Mechanism 9:22:01 PM    comment []

Butter Browned Pita, from a cast iron skillet – They’ll be cut in halves then strips to dip in homemade hummus tomorrow.   I went hog wild with the tahini and lime (it calls for lemon, but lemons are $.79 each and limes are four for a buck), put in coriander along with the cumin (excess there too), and kept mixing in more paprika instead of just sprinkling it on top like the recipe said. The more carried away I got, the better it tasted. "Too much" garlic too, very piquant. Loosely adapted from this recipe. 9:07:05 PM    comment []

Present By Absence   "A gaffe occurs not when a politician lies, but when he tells the truth." -Michael Kinsley   Kinsley is probably most famous for saying that, but I miss his columns on Slate and reprinted at The Washington Post. Last we’ve heard from him was January 30, 2004. 7:19:52 PM    comment []

Sex Lives Of The Potato Men   From the NY Times "It was absolute rubbish," agreed Charles Chandler, 59, who recently took a field trip with his wife to see the film, which opened last month. It chronicles the lewd escapades of a group of puerile 30-ish men who deliver potatoes to fish and chip shops in the Midlands. Mr. Chandler mentioned particularly a scene in which one of the men picks his nose and admires (in loving detail, along with the audience) what he finds there. "There's really no reason for that at all," he said. What particularly outraged him as well as London's film critics and editorial writers were not necessarily the masturbation sequences involving strawberry jam and fish paste; or the close-ups of piles of freshly deposited dog feces in the park; or the weird sex scenes between Mackenzie Crook, who plays the strange-haired worker in the BBC television series "The Office," and a terrifying, zeppelin-bosomed older woman. Oh, The Humanity! 4:43:29 PM    comment []