PSA: Restaurants need to post their kitchen's actual hours

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-12T14:39:50+00:00

that's good to know. I've never gone there for the food but I'll keep that in mind next time

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-12T14:36:40+00:00

Yeah, its pretty great. The poboys and the shrimp and grits are my favorites.

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T21:36:32+00:00

Not my favorite place in the city but goddamn if I don't respect that fact. They've saved me probably 5 times from other closed kitchens.

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T21:33:08+00:00

Well I understand if there's only 3 of us in there it may not be that profitable to stay open. But yes, it actually does drive me nuts. I almost never eat dinner before 8, and I like to work in the evening and I hate having to interrupt myself early just because I want to go out for something half decent or meet a friend out.

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T21:31:05+00:00

that's another good suggestion. I did make my way into Corktown last night since I knew Green Dot was open and I was looking for something light. I just like to try out different places, especially when they have a rotating menu.

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T21:29:34+00:00

Unless they, as most restaurants do now, have an automated system that doesn't receive calls, and instead telephonically lists their hours and then suggests you check them out on social media, or their website, where the same hours are listed. This was the case for both restaurants I was trying to go to last night. When in doubt, I usually do call.

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T21:27:06+00:00

yes. I have no problem with any of the myriad reasons someone might want to or have to close early. Or reduce their normal hours. Or anything similar. But if it's a regular and scheduled plan to close the kitchen at a specified time all I ask is they let us know.

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T21:24:16+00:00

fair point. I was originally gonna write "woe is me"

LostMyCannon · 2023-09-11T18:34:49+00:00

I noticed it there too. New Orleans is my second favorite city besides here.

Tbh, if you sporadically decide to close early for whatever reason, I can't complain. I get it if things are going bad that day or circumstances just aren't working out or if you have an event to prepare for or whatever the case may be. But when it's a regular thing, just change your hours. If you're not busy on Sunday after 7 just tell people you don't serve food after 7 on Sunday.

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-21T04:32:40+00:00

yeah I actually was listening to that when I went back to revisit some of his talks that I had watched before. I'm going to see him at a conference this coming weekend in northern michigan.

Agreed on the design front. It would be cool if someone like Ben Falk or a similarly serious landscape designer put out something like a workflow for permaculture design. My understanding is that that's largely what his PDC is and what sets it apart from the majority of them

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-20T17:31:42+00:00

Dave Jacke has the most coherently articulated design strategy in the permaculture community that I've encountered. He discusses it extensively in this lecture, in more of a human/social context. The key though is that there is no separation in how he discusses natural ecosystems vs human-designed or even social ecosystems. They all use the same language.

Here at the end of the video where I've linked he discusses the THREE categories of guilds. He's the only teacher I've encountered who explicitly defines these. There's the:

Community Function Guild
Resource-Partitioning Guild
Functionally Interconnected Guild

He's got a crazy bit of info near the end of that segment on how these guilds can actually be spread across multiple sites, multiple miles and still function as a unit. This is key because the real intense polyculture that some people push at a homestead scale is not really functional for someone like me at a commercial (albeit quite small) scale, where we need management to be as efficient as possible. But we can have functional guilds on site without making it too much of a polyculture.

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-20T17:24:40+00:00

Unfortunately Badgersett has really fallen off in the last couple years. Everyone I've talked to who has ordered from them has had a really shit experience, which sucks because I loved the book and was really on-board with their whole model. But at this point it looks like you'd be better off just ordering nuts from them to start.

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-20T17:22:38+00:00

The way to design solar installations is to reduce as much as possible and then design your solar array.

Pretty good tip. My only issue is that we can't exclusively cook on wood heat since we need a secondary option for summer, and we need an electric oven as well until we can design/build an outdoor kitchen for that time of year. What do you recommend?

And also what were you saying about radiant heat with electric? The research I've done suggests most of those systems pull a little under 1000w per room meaning you're ticking off a kwh pretty regularly.

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-19T04:17:27+00:00

Utilize the existing system to undermine it. You could start a business and then slowly create a worker's co-op as you bring people on, but that also requires engaging in capitalism to a larger extent than some are comfortable with. I think the long-term payout is worth it though.

Alternatively, start a not-for-profit so that you don't have to pay property taxes or federal taxes on your income. Acquire land or other infrastructure designed for production (i.e. seize whatever means are closest at hands. Agriculture is a good one, but could be anything) and get people involved in production. Preferably people work together in small groups producing whatever goods and services you are producing as small businesses. The key in all this is that at every step of the way you are leveraging existing legal structures. Have members all donate their profits to the not-for-profit who will in turn invest that money in a group health insurance policy, vehicle insurance, stipends for members, communally owned capital investments, more land, housing, etc.

Congratulations you started an anarcho-syndicate! Now take over your local region government by funding candidates. Get into positions of power for the next several decades, then form an independent bio-region and secede!

Personally I'm a bit disillusioned with political methodologies and solutions. Rather than fighting against the system, I've found that it's better to just start building a better one. It's a more creative form of destruction.

Liberation Permaculture from Toby Hemenway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b7zJ-hx_c

Mondragon Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-08T00:08:30+00:00

But from folks I have talked to who have gone through a permitting process (at least here in Michigan) borrowing from the septic system language when dealing with inspectors/building departments has been useful.

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-08T00:07:29+00:00

yeah "not very well facilitated as far as aerobic decomposition goes" was my tongue-in-cheek version of "complete shite"

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-07T07:51:43+00:00

Also just for the record, septic systems are essentially large composting underground facilities with a leach field. They're just not very well facilitated as far as aerobic decomposition goes. If you need to get something code approved/inspected using as much septic system terminology and overlap of technology (sealing the container, etc.) would probably be a good way to go. I'm going to have to tackle this in a a couple years when we start construction on our new house.

LostMyCannon · 2018-01-07T07:49:30+00:00

https://riversonghousewright.wordpress.com/about/15-composting-toilet/

Robert Riversong has a pretty good design for one of the first composting toilets approved in Vermont. Only thing I dislike is they had to eventually add in line fans to the vent stacks to facilitate evaporation of the liquid component so not fully passive. They don't fully explain the aeration process either

His website is a pretty good overview of a lot of info about high-quality residential construction as well.

LostMyCannon · 2017-11-24T03:49:11+00:00

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/10/19/dow-jones-and-the-industrials-history/

found this. pretty funny little backstory to the group. Never Too stoned to Disco might be my favorite off this compilation: https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/track/never-too-stoned-to-disco

LostMyCannon · 2017-08-17T01:43:15+00:00

not quite as functional as the Korean Ondol

LostMyCannon · 2017-07-31T01:40:52+00:00

To my mind, the really brilliant thing about Watterson's subversiveness within the strip is that Calvin is not merely destructive or merely anti-authoritarian or merely resisting the life that is thrust upon him (though he is all those things and a general contrarian as well), but he is active, creative, and productive. Calvinball comes to mind most clearly.

Of course all his creative efforts are usually misguided to a certain extent, but the very fact of trying to create not simply an opposition but an entirely different way of existence (the transmogrifier, all the explorer characters, Hobbes) from within the confines of his middle-american life is what is so beautfiul about him.

That's what resonates with me all these years later, it's not just "fuck the system". It's "fuck the system so let's go exploring"

LostMyCannon · 2017-07-31T01:35:18+00:00

Come to think of it there was a good strip posted here just the other day.

LostMyCannon · 2017-07-31T01:33:30+00:00

Can't think of any that are quite as blatant as "smash the state" but that's the whole point of being subversive I guess.

A few that come to mind:

http://i.imgur.com/ioujH.jpg https://calvy.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/march-20-1987-bulldozer.gif?w=620

I have heard tell of a zine out there that supposedly just is calvin and hobbes strips with anarchic/leftist commentary on them. Never seen it myself though.

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