This is a nice combination: Green yaupon + peppermint lemongrass tea* = pretty very good. Maple syrup takes it over the top, because it’s awesome in everything.
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* No Camellia sinensis was harmed in the making of this beverage.
Posts Tagged ‘#ThingsILike’
Tea Time
Posted in Food and..., tagged #365Ways, #distraction, #ThingsILike, home, inspiration, tea, Thoughts, writing on October 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Today In Things I Like
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #ThingsILike, home, Thoughts on July 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Today in things I like: Here’s an item I did not know existed before I moved to Canada: the electronic mosquito swatter.
You may know that mosquitoes are annoying;) This year has been pretty good* but even one mosquito indoors at night can be disruptive. (If you’re me, anyway. Mr. Man is born and bred Canadian and is mostly unfazed by even the largest of blood suckers. )
And I’m trying to be more tolerant outside. Inside? No.
Cue the swatter. Its mesh displaces less air than a standard fly swatter and also sends a current through the wires. Any mosquito or other biting insect caught in the layers is toast. Sometimes literally.
Seriously, don’t activate this thing while touching it.
Zip zap, all done.
As penance, I put the mosquito corpses outside so that something, somewhere might benefit.
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* That’s good and bad. Good, because it means fewer giant, itchy welts, bad because the dry Spring that led to fewer mosquitoes has a lot of follow-on effects, for insects, the birds and other animals who eat them, plants, trees, and of course, us humans.
The Best Sauerkraut
Posted in Holidays, Likes, tagged #365Ways, #ThingsILike, wildbrine on May 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
In today’s installment of things I like: this sauerkraut.
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I spent a patently unreasonable amount of time looking for a good, nay, great sauerkraut, and finally found it:
Wildbrine Raw Organic Sauerkraut. If you find it at Costco, you can get the ginormous size for an excellent price.
Are these fine folks sponsoring this message? They are not. They are just doing their level best to to put out a fine product, and I am here for it.
Is it unfashionable to like sauerkraut? Whatever. This stuff is freaking delicious.
Happy weekend cookouts, folks!
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This Is How We Win
Posted in Holidays, Likes, tagged #ThingsILike, hope, inspiration, science fiction, Thoughts on May 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Finding Our Way
Posted in Other, tagged #ThingsILike, inspiration, persistence, science, Thoughts on April 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I’d like to say something inspirational, something supportive, something that will help you navigate the challenges we’re all facing these days. At the moment, though, I’m coming up a little short.
Instead, here’s an image that reminds me that even in the darkest times, our persistence, our knowledge, and our shared humanity will help us find a way forward.
I’m Fine, How Are You?
Posted in Entertainment, Funny, tagged #CoronaCreativity, #ThingsILike, creativity, fun on April 3, 2020| Leave a Comment »
This is Nice, and So Are You
Posted in Likes, tagged #ThingsILike, inspiration on March 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Oh, This World
Posted in Other, tagged #ThingsILike, inspiration, Motivation, quotes, Thoughts on March 18, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
— Abraham Lincoln
Stay Spotless, My Friends!
Posted in Likes, tagged #coronavirus, #stayspotless, #ThingsILike, #WashYourLyrics, free, home, Thoughts on March 12, 2020| Leave a Comment »
tl;dr (even though it’s short short short!): Covid-19 a.k.a. The Coronavirus. Ugh. But we’ll get through this.
In service to the greater good, I am amplifying this genius little tool: Wash Your Lyrics.
Type in a song title and artist, come away with a custom hand-washing poster to make it easier to get through the whole… freaking… twenty!… seconds… worth of hand-washing the CDC and every other knowledgeable organization / official / healthcare professional / your mom says we all need right now. More details here, but it’s pretty straightforward.
Obviously, it’s been done before, but to get you started here’s a set of hand-washing instructions set to the world’s most obvious song choice (waiting to see stats on song selections, but I’m pretty sure I’m right):
Let me also take a moment to thank all the public servants, health care professionals and first responders working on the front lines. Stay safe, my friends!
The 2019 Nebula Award Finalists!
Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #FreeFiction, #ThingsILike, Fiction, genre fiction, science fiction, sff, short stories, speculative fiction on February 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Oh hey, just when I was running out of high-quality sci-fi, the universe gives me (drum roll please)… The 2019 Nebula Award Finalists!
Free links where available. Enjoy!
Novel
- Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
Novella
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga; Jo Fletcher)
- Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
- Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise (Broken Eye)
Novelette
- “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
- “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
- Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)
Short Story
- “Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)
- “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
- “How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)
- Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)
- Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)
Game Writing
- Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
- The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)
- The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
- Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
- Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
- Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)
- The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)
- Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
- Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)
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