Unbeatable egg-to-bread ratio
Admire the cosmological coincidence I caused before having my morning cup of coffee. Also, great name for a band. 💬 Thoughts? Email me a comment
move slow, fix things
An old school website made for humans. Ideas, readings and shower thoughts by Mauro. Father, husband, reader, low-tech homesteader, amateur pizzaiolo, ...
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Shoveling donkey poo
Most people when they visit our land ask me: Why do you have donkeys? What do they give you? I hate this question. I know it comes from ignorance or lack of imagination, it's a lot easier for people to understand why I keep chickens or even cats (even though they barely provide anything). I know it doesn't come from a bad place, but still. Do they need to give me something for me to keep them?…
A very happy birthday
I'm 37 now. I officially have a salt and pepper beard. I share my birthday with my mom. I have the honour of being her best birthday present ever. Yesterday we had a delicious paella from my dad's restaurant and saw my parents and my brother and her girlfriend. I made the mistake of eating straight from the paella (yes, the food and it's container are called the same) and lost track of how much I…
On letting videogames go
I'm starting to get the nagging feeling that videogames have been a net negative in my life. I'm not trying to generalise here, this is purely my personal experience . And it's also not a fully formed thought, I'm just verbalising it to see if I can get some insight. ⚠️ You can skip this next paragraph Videogames have been a significant part of my life. I remember playing educational MS-DOS games…
re: I print websites like a fucking boomer
Are you allowed to reply to your own posts? I'm not scared of the Bear police! I received a lot of really good comments (ok, maybe 6 emails, that's a lot for me) on the post I wrote the other day . The truth is I didn't think about it too seriously, I just thought it was a funny thing I did, but all the feedback I received made me reflect on why I do it a bit more. Here are some thoughts: My main…
Using proper flour to make pizza
I make a lot of pizza. At least relatively to everyone I know, excluding my actual pizzaiolo friend, duh. Since I got my Ooni oven 4 years ago I must have made more than 300 pizzas (I lost count after 200). My preferred style is Neapolitan. I really enjoy the process of making the dough, experimenting with different techniques, preferments, hydration percentages, tweaking variables, etc. It's like…
Possessive pronouns in English vs. Spanish
Background: my native tongue is Spanish and I live in Spain, but at home we speak in English because my wife is English. Recently I realised that I always struggle with possessive pronouns in the 3rd person in English ( his/her ). It just takes me an extra second to figure out which one to use (and I often fail). Today while driving it happened again and my brain made a new connection: I struggle…
I print websites like a fucking boomer
I absolutely hate reading on a screen. Anything longer than a 5 minute blog post I just can't. I think my brain is so fucked, that the potential of another browser tab in the background completely blocks my ability to focus. I can't do it with PDF documents either. I just don't take my laptop or my phone as serious reading devices and I don't think it's worth the effort of trying to change that,…
Now Listening: Sutra chanting by Keisuke Honryo
Listen to the battle theme for the game Metaphor ReFantazio: If you think it sounds like a monk rapping, you are not too far from the truth. What you are hearing is Bhuddist sutra chanting by Keisuke Honryo, the Chief Priest of Myojoji Temple . The composer is Shoji Meguro , a veteran of the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series, and it's one of the most original works of music I've listened to in…
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
What is there left to say about this absolute unit of a classic? I didn't read this in high school but I wish I had, just to see how it would have affected me. This book punches you hard. You see the tragedy of it coming a mile away but that doesn't make it one bit less sad. To me this is a book about human connection and how isolating and uprooting people alienates them. It's an absolute…