I’ve been playing a lot of Sage Solitaire the last few days, and I built a little command-line tool to help me keep track of the remaining cards in the deck.
Cochinita Pibil The only thing that gets us through the oppressive butthole that is the month of February is slow-cooking meat.
Very loosely based on a Mayan dish involving a suckling pig getting a spa day in bitter oranges, wrapped in banana leaves, and buried in hot coals, Cochinita Pibil— or at least this patently white-girl variation— takes advantage of the abundant citrus available in February. It’s a long-roasted, pork-fat-covered sunbeam in an otherwise sludge-grey landscape. Serve it like tacos, turn it into tortas, put it on your scrambled eggs. Do whatever you want, just don’t forget to make it before winter ends and we’re back to bitching about the heat.
Nassim Nicholas “Black Swan“ Taleb has an NYT op-ed arguing that the best way secure the financial system from future collapse is to eliminate bankers’ bonuses altogether. Taleb says bonuses reward risk-taking behavior without any counterbalancing punishment for bad risks, which provides an…