A small-piece-of-nugget incident

Just now, I put the last piece of nugget in my mouth. For some reason I turned to look down while I was chewing, and a small piece of nugget -- complete with barbecue sauce -- fell out of my mouth and square on my sweatpants. What makes this is particularly wholesome failure is that the last piece of food is in the mouth. And you still manage to fail.

A Moderately Vicious Cycle

Without fail, every workday morning, among my first thoughts: "I'm going to bed first thing when I get back from work."

Without fail, every workday evening, remembering my supremely important first-in-the-morning desire: "Not right now. I'll go to bed at a reasonable time."

I blog at 1 am to document this occurence.

Aging

I was looking at a pretty glorious picture of the International Commerce Contre under construction in Hong Kong and a memory came to me.

In the run-up to my moving to the States for good, being the skyscraper enthusiast that I am, I went around the city taking pictures of buildings. They didn't come out particularly glorious. My mother said it was because of the weather. I recall I didn't understand. It could be because the gloomy weather didn't affect me as a kid. It does now.

An argument against vegetarianism

I was sitting in my car in the Steak 'n Shake parking lot eating my grilled chicken salad, and for a few moments I understood how vegetarians feel. There it is, a chuck of a former living thing, sliced up, sitting on vegetables and dressed in honey mustard for my consuming pleasure. An advance civilization descending from the stars might consider it barbaric.

Our ancestors hunted and gathered, subsisted on what filled their hunger. Eventually, they learned to domesticate animals and farm. The surplus generated by these innovations allowed some of the population to do things other than procuring food and specialization began.

Fast forward to today, most of us buy our food, taking no part in its production. Most of us don't bother to think about the animals that die so we can live. Among those who do, some are disgusted by the systematic breeding and killing of animals to feed the ever-growing human population and decide to do the right thing by boycotting animal meat.

My conclusion is thus that vegetarians are people who forget their heritage. It follows that vegetarianism is bad if you believe forgetting one's heritage is a bad thing.

Disclaimer: I don't care if you forget your heritage. What you eat is none of my business.

And my conclusion is...

It doesn't need a reason to die.

The Recently-Closed Cap

Have you ever had the problem of picking up a container of supplements, but don't remember if you had just taken it? Well, I think they should make caps that indicate whether it had just been closed, i.e., you have already taken pill and put down the bottle. I call this the Recently-Closed Cap.

On an unrelated note, the hopelessly cellar-dwelling Boston Celtics acquired Ray Allen from Seattle on draft night and have a deal that will be finalized any minute now that will bring Kevin Garnett from Minnesota. That would be three stars-of-the-franchise who are in their prime -- if late prime -- together in a likewise hopelessly mediocre Atlantic Division; that is obscene.

Certainly some sports writers will soon argue that we have seen this experiment before, that concentrated star power does not translate into automatic championships, citing the Portland Trail Blazers of the early 2000's and the 2003-04 L.A. Lakers, which added Karl Malone and Gary Payton to their championship tandem of Shaq and Kobe. But this is different. Allen and Garnett are two good-natured superstars who can play with Pierce. I think this will work. Danny Ainge's first good move since he took charge in Boston could just revive a franchise that has fallen on hard times since Larry Bird retired, if only for a few seasons before the "aging team" label starts to fly.

What's the word

It appears that my body has a natural cycle for connecting morning and evening sleep-side. With long summer days, this is in fact a crepuscular-nocturnal schedule.