Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling In ten years of gardening, this has to be the worst weather ever. Late winter storm, followed by lots of heat, followed by rain and rain and rain. We got a little respite, then more Noah action, then beastly hot weather, then another flood the last two days.

Brews You Can Use Wow, I'd never heard or thought of this before: Pass a law that increases the price of booze so poor people can't afford it [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-44520991]. It's a new law in Wales and apparently parallels a

This beautiful Twitter site relentlessly adds to the pain of watching Europe throw away its heritage: > The wealth of Roman architecture makes Pula (ancient Polensium) a standout in #Croatia [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Croatia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] where you'll find a well-preserved Roman

Midweek Rambling Kinda interesting: Inside Amazon's $3.5 Million Competition to Make Alexa Chat Like a Human [https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17453994/amazon-alexa-prize-2018-competition-conversational-ai-chatbots] . If you don't want to wait for the results, you can use the Alexa Blueprint Skill to customize your Dot&

Miscellaneous Rambling The heat has been unbearable. Rain permitting, I hope to make it out to the produce site to see if the lettuce is bolting. I hope not. We're hoping for our first mega-harvest of the year. I was pleasantly surprised by the current performance by a

Miscellaneous Rambling Amen to that Nassim Taleb quote a posted yesterday. "[A]ny argument (such as the one now used for illegal immigration) that is supported by pictures/narratives of children is called PEDOPHRASTY. Actually, use of children should weaken an argument." I strongly agree. I'm

> A reminder that any argument (such as the one now used for illegal immigration) that is supported by pictures/narratives of children is called PEDOPHRASTY. Actually, use of children should weaken an argument. pic.twitter.com/qZ7Qn5pHN2 [https://t.co/qZ7Qn5pHN2] > — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 16, 2018

Autobio Rambling Crazy week. My back molar split on Wednesday, necessitating an extraction. I then had to cover a lengthy client meeting Wednesday evening that didn't let out until after 9:30. I had to get up early in order to be in Detroit for a conference that

Brews You Can Use God willing, you're reading this after I spent a night of drinking at old haunts along South University in Ann Arbor [https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/South_University] with Marie, Alex, and Abbie, then crashing at Abbie's before heading back to the second

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Flag Day . . . with the "L." The cover story in the current issue of Gilbert Magazine is about John Wu. Very good piece. I don't know a ton about Wu, but he holds that Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism were good seed beds for Christianity,