Brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs here. Is this a bit of New England weirdness, Cambridge weirdness, or general yuppie weirdness? I'm sure I remember it being the other way around when I was young.
Update:
This study shows that New England does have a thing for brown eggs. It isn't a yuppie thing: California eats just as many 'specialty eggs' (eggbeaters, organic, fertile) as new England, but is 7 : 1 white, while New England is 8 : 7 white.
This memo confirms the New England thing, and adds that Connecticut is not truly part of New England in this respect, but says that the price difference is driven by supply, not demand: brown egg breeds eat more than white egg breeds.
Futher Update: The closest thing I can find to an explanation is that the Rhode Island Red was the favored chicken around here, possibly because it tolerates cold better. This was reenforced by a jingle "brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh" at some point.
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05:34:39 PM,
Monday 28 March 2005
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Precisely how does one go about pursuing other interests and opportunities, anyway? Could one resign in order to chase opportunities, to badger and hound interests? What happens when you catch one?
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04:29:33 PM,
Monday 28 March 2005
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Doctor, I become unhappy and misanthropic whenever I read political blogs. What should I do?
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11:25:20 PM,
Thursday 24 March 2005
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Xenosaga is a disappointment. It somehow fails to be either grand or likable. Too much undigested Neitzche, and not enough Shonen Knife, I think is the problem. Not a single cute little animal to be seen. Also, it has no respect for the connection between the game and the plot-movie. Items from one character show up in anothers inventory, when they've never even met. You can go back in virtual reality to ships that have blown up to retrieve items you've missed. But the final straw was the in-game spam, 4,000 years in the future, advertising another game. This sort of thing makes disbelief become terminally unsuspended.
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08:58:34 PM,
Thursday 24 March 2005
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My boss, my CEO and one of the people I just couldn't bear all either vanished or announced their impending vanishing in the past two weeks. I find this stressful. Though, it seems at the moment that I find everything down to and including carpeting stressful. Including the forecast of snow. Over 12 hours of daylight, and still with the snow.
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04:49:53 PM,
Wednesday 23 March 2005
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Last week sometime, I started thinking about this Schiavo thing again. Couldn't help it. It's something I respond viscerally to. Usually I'm pretty good at arguing against myself, turning things aroud and playing with hypotheticals, but here, I'm barely able to be equivoical enough to read about the facts; I fill them in myself, and cherry pick the ones which fit it into my story. The trouble is, it taps right into one of my nightmares. This is why the conversation around it is so demented; there are 4 ways to latch onto you: fear of losing a love and not being able to help them, fear of losing a child and not being able to help them, fear of being unable to speak, and fear of being unable to die.
The poll made me feel better: last week I felt alone on this, since all the noise is being made by those who relate to the parents. I think it's down to the stories. The story I want to hear is that he's finally allowed to do what he thinks she needs, she dies, and he tries to put his life back together, and her parents buy a puppy to torment and dress up instead. (sorry). Their story is that the world, united in outrage, rescues her, she revives when exposed to the love of her parents, and he is hounded wherever he goes, unable to escape his sins. I know this is their story, because they cover the internet with it, because that's their part in their story. I have no part in my story. In my story the world maintains a polite distance, quietly restraining the parents.
The danger with all this is that the stories don't come from the facts. The stories were already there. I read stories with headlines about him turning down money, because that fits my story. There are many stories out there I don't read, that I dismiss, because they don't fit my story. I might be right, but it would be chance. I'm not being reasonable about this.
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07:24:12 PM,
Monday 21 March 2005
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It turns out the tiny blisters I get occasionally on the sides of my fingers have various names: Dyshidrosis, Dyshidrotic eczema, Pompholyx. No, you don't need to know that, but I might one day, and now it's somewhere I can find it. Who said this blog was for you, anyway?
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02:55:00 PM,
Monday 21 March 2005
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Arlington is getting a Penzey's Spices. I'm quite happy about this. I'm also happy that it qualifies as front page news in our paper.
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05:22:39 PM,
Friday 18 March 2005
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Why shouldn't I use a fork to stir my tea?
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01:57:13 PM,
Friday 18 March 2005
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"If you can't learn to ride an elephant, you can at least learn to ride a horse."
"What's an elephant?"
"A kind of badger," said Granny. She hadn't maintained forest-credibility for forty years by ever admitting ignorance.
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09:53:35 AM,
Friday 18 March 2005
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I understand why programming languages have properties. I can see why it's practical and I believe we should all be object oriented, but I still recoil upon typing get and set. I'll get over it. This is my first encounter with a standards document with the moral authority of employment behind it.
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09:47:55 AM,
Friday 18 March 2005
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The hunting of cats: I'm not convinced that the threat to songbirds is a big deal. It doesn't make sense to me to say feral cats are worse than other predators because they "kill for fun". Domestic cats do, but domestic cats are insane, and probably think they're feeding their huge bipedal kittens. Feral cats are hungrier. However, I think allowing hunting is a better solution than mass sterilization of feral cat colonies, which is just inefficient and morally confused. So, I'm not sure it's necessary, but if it is, I'm not sure there's anything wrong with it. Shooting feral dogs is permitted, and as far as I know, people shooting neighbors dogs isn't a major social problem.
There is one argument for hunting feral cats I quite like: if people don't hunt cats, something else will fill the niche, coyotes and such. Coyotes are significantly harder to train not to eat house cats than hunters are.
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04:15:26 PM,
Thursday 17 March 2005
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