The Core

My in-laws are in Ohio just outside of Columbus. That right there is good enough reason to never set foot in that pit of rust, misery, and despair.

https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/11/09/las-vegas-self-driving-bus-needed-2-hours-prove-human-drivers-suck/

Love seeing the headlines making it look like the bus was at fault. But this is what we will see when any self driving vehicles get in a wreck.

If it was all self driving vehicles I don't think we would have a problem. But mixing smart cars with stupid humans is a recipe for disaster.

Was reading about that yesterday. $99 for 3 bottles??? They are really limiting their market to elite athletes with that pricing. If it can help a competitive marathoner shave a minute or two off their time it could be worth it at that price. And that is a big if.

>>Fake meat and seafood

I tried one of the new fake burgers a while back just to see how it was. It looked a lot more like ground beef than the traditional veggie burgers, it was oddly juicy, and it had the texture that could somewhat remind you of ground beef. But it still tasted terrible until it was drowned in condiments and toppings. http://completecarnivore.com/beyond-meat-can-meatless-burger-actually-good/ is the review of it I wrote up.

That said it was much, much closer to real meat than most of the alternative burgers I have tasted.  I would never choose one in lieu of a real burger but if a vegan invited me over and this was what they served I could cover it in enough stuff to make it palatable.

I can see them doing a better job of replicating shrimp, fish, and other seafood than beef. Seems like the texture and flavor would be easier to replicate.

>>For both of them, time for the annual "hog killing" was ingrained in them as a big seasonal event even though they had lived in cities and towns for decades.

Growing up we had a small farm with a couple cows, a few pigs, chickens, rabbits, etc. I remember butchering day was one of my favorite days. My grandpa and a couple uncles would come over, we would kill the pigs and cows and hang them up from the barn, and go through the whole butchering process. We would of course chop the chickens heads off and pluck them. When we wanted rabbit for dinner we would go get one, snap its neck, skin and gut it, and it would be on the table an hour later.

I would love it if elementary schools had required field trips to farms for a butchering. Not of course the big factory farms but a small farm that does it "right". I think it would give everyone a better appreciation for their food.

And a dream of mine is to someday own a butcher shop/restaurant. I wouldn't necessarily want to raise or slaughter the animals (let the experts do that) but I would do all the breaking down of the animals and cooking. Probably about a 1% chance of that ever happening but it would be fun. 

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/tesla-makes-quick-work-of-puerto-rico-hospital-solar-power-relief-project/

That was quick.

Wow ok, maybe it's E3 I'm thinking of then.

Terrible date pick for AS.

They usually have AS sometime in January and those were the only dates Paris had open (or any other space large enough for them for that matter). There is usually a day overlap at the beginning or end of CES but this is the first time they have been at the same time.