A few weeks ago MIT finally added Discovery Channel to their cable channel selection (which still doesn’t include ESPN or Comedy Central, but that’s entirely deserving of its own rant). I was watching discovery channel and learned of the existance of Ligers, as from Napoleon Dynamite – It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s a mix of a lion and tiger, bread for its skills in magic. Apparently Ligers don’t recieve some growth supressing gene, and as a result they are huge – like 1400lbs!
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Why are we so blessed? We’ll get to that later, but in the meantime ski season has officially started for me with a trip to Killington yesterday. Besides being totally stoked and shredding really hard, I go to use the GPS receiver that I bought over the summer. I got the coordinates of several lifts which I plan to store in a searchable database. I will then use the database to analyze my track logs of ski days. I also enjoyed the top speed stat – I was unfortunately only able to hit 42.5mph because there weren’t many runs open and slopes were really croweded. Plus the snow conditions were really variable. My goal is to hit 60mph at some point this season. I think my best chance will be a Sunday River were the runs are long, straight, and ALWAYS groomed to the max.
Tonight Suelin, Mat, and I attempted to make our own sushi, and it actually came out great!
My parents gave me a bunch of sushi making supplies last year for Christmas, and I finally got around to using them. The main reason I hadn’t used them earlier was that I was concerned I was going to eat bad fish and kill myself. But after a lot of looking I found a sushi-grade fish distributor in Boston – Sea to You. We had a book describing what to do which was helpful, but we had no idea how much of the different ingredients we needed. It turned out that rice was the limiting factor for us. Surprisingly, the rolls use only a very small amount of the vegetables. The following amounts will make 3-4 rolls and some sashimi and use up all of the fish and rice: