The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
which biscuit is the best for dunking? We tested chocolate-oats, chocolate digestive, Oreo, traditional butter Shortbread, stroopwaffles and lotus Biscoff biscuits with cold milk, tea and coffee. The concensus winner was that Oreo biscuits are best with milk and lotus biscuits won both hot drinks.
Science, bitches! And as the mythbusters say: “remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down”.
… but I agree with it.
Child was deemed “too tall” for both the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and Women’s Army Corps (WAC) so she took a position at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). She helped invent a shark repellent that is still in use today.
Child did not have a natural talent for cooking. In fact, she was a self-admitted disaster in the kitchen until she began taking classes at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
Child spent her early years working for what would become the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1993, she joined another CIA: the Culinary Institute of America. The group inducted Child into its Hall of Fame that year, making her the first woman to ever receive the honor. She was also awarded the French Legion D’Honneur and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
She credited her long life to red meat and gin. Some great quotes:
Sleeping is hard in the summer because blankets are too warm,
but without blankets I’m vulnerable to monsters.
