The Bacon that Wasn't - @ActiveChild and cooking

When Your Love is Safe by Active Child was a bit more bittersweet last year for Bacon Camp. It had a nice big messy complicated bundle of feelings I only this morning remembered.

I didn't participate in this years BaconCamp. At first I couldn't at all explain why. I love competitive cooking, and pushing myself, but it hasn't been coming to me as readily lately. My posts are fewer, and (I would imagine) less helpful to the world at large.

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Up time and creative blocks

Lately you may have noticed a dearth of posting.

Well, there's a new niece and a bunch of other stuff all just flying everywhere in a not bad way.

Yesterday I had an opportunity to finally force idle my processor.

Lifehacker has an article on creativity blocks. I don't think it has any particularly good advice for me today. Not because my creativity isn't blocked up. But because summoning it through reptitive and otherwise dolorous tedium isn't my baall of wax.

Do you prefer doing nothing? Like tuning into your internal clock? Tuning out everything else. Detaching all other dependencies. Reducing to only lowest level hum. Eliminating the abstractions.

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Need fiber, sugar, and to feel good about frivolous health claims?

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Updated on 11:56AM by mfg

Still, coffee only gets you everywhere, and every now and then it gets you some low blood sugar. What then? Trapped in a twenty story building with three hours left in the day, crappy Starbucks and uninteresting salads in the lobby, no likely vegan snacks in the vending machine a few floors up. How about some ramshackle shed-looking storefront with a thrown together coffee dive look?

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Soy & Seizures

Glutamic Acid, it's coming to get you... or not? All I can say is I love my tofu

Seriously, who's going to just walk away from that? That new restaurant Skillet can suck itTuesday I got a call regarding soy products causing seizures. Granted it was offered though wary in no small part to my general unwillingness to pay attention to criticism regarding diet choices. Additionally she was cautious, as evidenced by the dubious, utterly-qualified way in which the potential issue was brought up. This is not a post about people in general or the specific thoughtfulness behind the concern. I am already difficult to talk to sometimes, so maybe an account of why is called for from time to time.

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@Wild_Goose BaconCamp 2012

So perhaps you may remember my BV post on the Holy Hog's Hell Chili; I made about five gallons of pulled pork and bacon chili.

I spent some thirty or so hours, a sleepless night, and about two hundred dollars chasing down some thing in my head. The result tasted great, but the work was better.

This year I hope to put forward a solid effort. I would love to do an excessive amount of lab work to get this done, but I am just plum out of time.

don't make me rake your bacon

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@drewtoothpaste has a following on amazon

check out http://theworstthingsforsale.com , and if you go through to amazon it is amazing that there is obviously some drewtoothpaste algorithm at work because no matter what worstthingforsale you are thinking about buying yourself in some "ha-ha what-a-gas gag gift for me" way because I am sad and the internet hates me and tells me sad shit all day, Amazon knows who referred you. I am worried for my pristine search history.

But I am glad people are making sure that the indelible print is being left behind.

I'm following up on Lifehacker advice

How amusing. And I have a warm butt.How drole.

Google: "Matthew Gilboy"

Matthew Gilboy: is that a real person?

SEO vis a vis search engine engineering your name services are fun every now and then, and a few new ones are rattling around and making noise. Lifehacker Recommendations include Zerply and BrandYourself.com.  The whole point of this page is to boost rankings or some something.

Anyway. Think about branding yourself, or don't. I didn't put much consideration into it, and I will probably have data hounds and peeple sharks climbing up my basket with lotion.

If you're a tool to doing things on Lifehacker, what's the dumbest thing they have ever told you to do, that you went ahead and did without really thinking about it?