Demystifying Money: What is it Really; How Does it Work?
I'll explain to you how that $900, when created properly, is the most powerful, abundant money humans ever created and is backed by the very basis of our survival as a species.
Archives for February 2013
The Free the Animal Newsletter Kicks Off in Earnest
Let's talk about: Big changes to the blog; Making the newsletter exclusive; Helping people as a focus; and a New dietary experiment.
David Brown on the Demise of Saturated Fat Phobia and the Hazard of Omega-6
few are aware that the food supply would be far less toxic if its omega-6 content were drastically reduced.
Do You UNDER-stand?
recognizing your own assumptions & paradigms, how your logic-truth is formed by them, and how that creates conflicts with those of different assumptions, paradigms and consequent logic.
I’m Crazy About Kefir and Kombucha
Alright, I admit I used to roll my eyes at all the talk in PGP circles (Pretty Good Paleo) over making and drinking Kefir, and brewing and drinking Kombucha. I probably even laffed out loud once it twice, too.
The 12th Anniversary Weekend
…Just a bit of housekeeping first. Professor Hamilton M. Stapell would like to invite the ancestral health community to participate in a new online survey. Go have a look and answer a few questions.
Thursday afternoon Beatrice & I headed down to Carmel, CA where 12 years ago we tied the knot—after about five years of being together, getting a house & dog, all that domestic stuff. We brought the dogs.
The beach at Carmel
Thursday evening, after a stop at the patio at Hog’s Breath Inn and then the rooftop at Vesuvio, we decided on dinner at Casanova.
We’ve been here a couple of times going back and it has always been fabulous. It’s been some years—probably five or six—and since we’re staying right across the street, why not?
We shared two apps.
Octopus & clams, fennel & orange on a chickpea purée
Escargot & bone marrow, new carrots on a demi-glace
Then on to the main dishes.
Scallops on a carrot purée for Bea
Rack of lamb for me
Bea’s scallops were perhaps the best scallop texture I’ve ever had. I asked about recommended temperature for the lamb and the chef recommended medium, not medium rare. Said the taste comes out better. I think he was right. Different meats, different cuts, different temperatures, different textures & tastes.
Here’s how they serve a coffee.
How cute
The next morning we had breakfast at my favorite little hole in the wall, Friar Tucks. Then it was the walk on the beach and a bit through the neighborhood to find that houses you’d think might bring $3.5 mil were on the market for $7.5 mil, etc. Not in my life. Plus, I want a beach villa and 12 rustic guest bungalows in Ecuador—or some similar place—where you can run the whole place for pennies per month by comparison.
In the late afternoon, a trip over to Mission Ranch.
Pastured lamb
Thursday being a bit heavy on food & drink, Friday we opted for just drinks & apps at Hog’s Breath, pretty much my favorite place. My first time there was 1989 and other than Clint Eastwood selling the place to a friend, nothing has changed about it. It even served as the inspiration for my own backyard design for a previous house…a mini forrest with pavers, planters with perennials, an in-ground spa, fire pit and teak furnishings.
Only pic I could find offhand, but the kidney-shaped in-ground spa done in small pebbles is off to the left out of view. The bar is just to the right. 🙂
Willow Glen backyard
Here’s what we had for dinner last night.
Surf & Turf
That wasn’t a restaurant, though. That was the dinner prepared by Robert & Julie for us. Perfect in every way. Robert & I were out there on the patio fighting about whether the steaks were done or not, and that turned out to be the key to having perfectly done steaks.
Thank you, Beatrice. PG12. “Pretty Good 12.”
Low Carb Critiquing and Constructive Criticism vs. Slamming and Tearing Down Values
First, it serves to take a bird's eye view of the whole thing and in general, my view tells me that the LC community, for all its warts, is a net value and helps a lot of people.
Money For Nothin’ and Chicks For Free (Wouldn’t that be nice?)
Nobody gets to be a Rock Star, except for Rock Stars—arguably a human creation that will never be equalled in terms of audacity.
Deciding For Yourself: 13 Pretty Good Low Carb Resources
Keep up and improve the good, best parts of your work, laddies & gentleman. You are a life saving and enhancing value to many out there—doubtless many hundreds and thousands you don't even know about.
Memo to Marlene Zuk: “Paleo Nostalgia” is a Big Fat Strawman
...to the extent I'm any authority at all for anyone, it's the valid, necessary authority of telling you that you're OK, that you can figure this stuff out.
Why There is No “Paleo Diet”
Did your ancestors turn left or right out of Africa, and then, after a time, did they go north or south?
James Briscione’s Jack Daniels Pork Chops Sous Vide
I was lucky to be on hand to share Chef Heston Blumenthal's creations (pics here) with Dr. Mike and Tim Ferriss
Big Dairy & Big Potato as Big Post Workout Meals
Pareto, man. 80/20. Or 90/10, or whatever you like and are comfortable with; but beyond that you're surely going to be hitting the tar pit of diminishing returns in any added cost/ marginal benefit analysis.
Like a Bunless Burger at Burger King: Have it Your Way
When you get in a rut, first procrastinate. There's virtue in that, so long as you know that you eventually have to do something to get out of it.
The Big Changes Coming to Free the Animal
When you're in a slump, what do you do but get out of it? How do you get out of it but change what you're doing to something else, calculated to be better?
Huh? Microbiome Sequencing? Whaddat?
This is a new citizen project startup that asked for $100,000 and has so far received $284,000. Here's the project page: uBiome -- Sequencing Your Microbiome.
A Whole Day of Everything I Ate & Drank
I've been trying something new the last few days and finding it to my liking: eating more, just differently.
Helicopter Moms & Dads: Watch this and then go dunk your heads in cold water
I guess the parents of these lean, marvelous looking, exuberant Siberian kid-animals didn't get the memo that what kids need now is 24/7 hovering, being kept indoors, and fed packaged junk food.
Alien Invasion
They just got done with the 2013 Worlds in Forbes, NSW.
Nefarious Trinity: The Church, The State, and the Holy Corporation
In the end, we love the predators the most, and that's what it's all cleverly about
Neo-Xenophobia: How Masturbation, Homosexuality and Working Women Threaten the White Race
So I've dubbed what I'm about to show you "neo-xenophobia." I suppose plain racism would work too, but the guy actually uses a black African tribe as an example for whites to follow.