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Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book

Let the singing and teaching banana introduce you to the joys of baking and cooking with bananas: green, yellow, and brown!

Texas 2023 legislative priorities

The Texas legislature is in session now for 2023; other than special sessions, it won’t meet again until 2025. Everyone has their priorities. Here are mine.

Mango macadamia pie for π day

This creamy mango pie with a macadamia nut topping is perfect for π day. Celebrate the impending end of winter with a bit of the tropics.

Incomprehensible Abundance linked on Editorials

“…a society that has just risen above the hand-to-mouth of no-extra-capital needs the essentials. It is only those who are rich who want the cute little thing that’s completely uneeded but makes you feel happy. They’re the only ones willing to pay for it.

“If you’ve ever bought something because you heard about it and you thought ‘oh, that’s cool’ or because you were browsing booths at a county fair (or a science fiction con) and found…. a cute box, or a pretty necklace, much more expensive than something that would fulfill the same function but mass produced? And you bought it? Congratulations. You’re as rich as Lords and Ladies in the regency.

“If you make a living of your crafts, your bespoke clothing, your writing, your non-essential good that enhances people’s lives?

“Congratulations. No matter if that life isn’t the thing that an Earl’s son would be happy with but just ‘average’ middle class living? Congratulations. You live in the richest society the world has ever seen. And this is why you’re allowed to ‘follow your passion’ or whatever it is, and do your thing and sell it for enough to live off of.” We live in an age of miracles built on a foundation of reason and faith, and there are those who wish to throw them all away because miracles frighten and confuse them.

Create searchable PDFs in Swift

This Swift script will take a series of image scans, OCR them, and turn them into a PDF file with a simple table of contents and searchable content—with the original images as the visually readable content.

A Kolchak Christmas at North Texas 2023

I’ll be running another Kolchak: The Night Stalker game at North Texas in 2023, again using the Daredevils rules from Fantasy Games Unlimited.

1950 Cherry Pudding Dessert

A vanilla-almond custard covered with a thick cherry sauce, from a 1950 recipe calendar.

Our Cybernetic Future 2023: Entropy in Action

Studying the past, we can improve the future. Studying the futurists of the past, we can learn the tools to improve the future.

January birthday veal from 1950

The Veal Rolls from the 1950 recipe calendar of Hope Lutheran Church in Chicago.

Promotional Cookbook Archive

I’ve managed to acquire several old promotional pamphlets and cookbooks that don’t appear to be available elsewhere on the net. I’m making them available here.