The Maillard Reaction. Mmmm!

I'm eating turkey bolagna with Kraft© singles on wheat bread, grilled
to perfection. And I listened to Candide this morning. And on tv is
a man dreaming of aluminum and how it is extracted from rocks. I
don't know why, this is the food network... Somehow, pot roasts have
something to do with aluminum. Did you know why aluminum foil has a
shiny side and a dull side? It's because when they roll it through
the big machines that flatten it, they have to run two sheets through
at a time. Why? Because each sheet is so thin, they will rip unless
they are flattened two at a time. Yep. I learned that today.

So anyway, here are some words that I found in my book:
Offal and perspicacious.

I am reading about the culture of England from about 1730 - 1780 ish.
It's rather interesting. Did you know that London was the largest and
most populous city in the world at that time? I would have guessed
Rome or maybe Paris. And also, did you know that London was ten times
as big as the next largest English city, and fifteen times larger than
the third place English city? I found that fascinating. And if you
ever find the time, try reading about the corruption in the police
force, and about the attempt at prohibition of alcohol in the late
18th century. Good stuff. I only have 725 pages left!!

I decided today that I want a bed shaped like a giant slice of lemon
merengue pie. It would be so soft and fluffy... Maybe I would sleep
better in a pie anyway, being in my natural state... Or something.

Did any of you see the Olympic trampoline stuff? Those guys can jump
sooo high and they kept doing these triple back axle turn jump flip
things. I just threw out a bunch of words and I don't know if they
did any of those, but I bet they could if you asked them.

Oh, happy Hawaii Day. Just, you know, for reference.

And Happy Deathday to Leon Trotsky, icepicked to death by Frank Jackson in 1940
And Happy Deathday also to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1995. He was
one of those physicists whose name kind of stuck in my mind from my
astronomy class. He won the Nobel Prize in 1983

And Today in History:
Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway, 1980
Next total solar eclipse visible from North America, 2017 (The future
is part of history right?)

Hope this has been as entertaining for you to read as it was for me to
write. Peace out.

Brian

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Brian D. Harris