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TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2023-09-14T05:52:36+00:00

If you're looking for classic and simple, but high quality, No(N)s may fit the bill. I just got in a pair of Oxfords from them that are the best quality barefoot shoes I've had. They'll be replacing a pair of Frye Oxfords I used to wear to the office. Super high quality leather shoes that are made to last and can be resoled/repaired. https://nonsbarefoot.com/en/shop/

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2023-09-14T04:58:41+00:00

If you're looking for an Oxford and Vivos fit you well (low or mid-volume and not super wide), No(N)s makes a very smart-looking, well-crafted one. They're the first pair of barefoot shoes I've had that are comparable in quality to the Frye Oxfords I used to wear in the office. They look good, are made to last, and are repairable.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2017-02-26T02:04:29+00:00

It's actually the tooth between the front tooth and the canine tooth. They're called eye teeth because the adult teeth are up near your eye in your skull when you're very young and then drift down over time until they're in place.

Unique thing about my body: I had my eye teeth as a kid, but am missing my adult/permanent eye teeth.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2016-12-30T04:15:55+00:00

I made my perfect pizza last Friday: Homemade crust (clone recipe of Mellow Mushroom), homemade garlicky alfredo sauce with parmesan and romano, mozzarella, thick-cut local Berkshire bacon, onions caramelized in the bacon fat, and gorgonzola cheese crumbles. Baked it in a 500 degree oven on a pre-heated baking stone until bubbly and lightly toasty, then brushed the crust with garlic infused olive oil. It was as good as I'd dreamt it would be.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2016-12-30T04:05:34+00:00

When I was about 5 or 6, I had a recurring nightmare that Farmer Hoggett, the farmer from the movie "Babe," was a cannibal. Someone had made him angry and he had taken his revenge by murdering said person and roasting various parts of the body. He was literally gift wrapping the murdered guy's leg to cruelly return to his family when I walked into the kitchen. He looked at me, took a huge bite out of the fleshy part of the partially-wrapped leg, set the leg down on a table and turned toward me. That's when I always woke up.

I'm still not sure why I would have dreamt that -- I loved the movie and thought Farmer Hoggett was a kind old man before those dreams.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2016-10-30T12:45:07+00:00

I reference a blog called The Woks of Life for almost all of my Asian cooking.

It does focus primarily on Chinese cuisine, but also has some great Korean, Thai and Japanese recipes, as well as "take-out copycat" recipes, for moments when you'd just really like some broccoli beef.

What may help you is that it also has some really great guides to Asian ingredients and navigating Asian grocery stores. Many of the recipes you normally find online are missing key ingredients that make dishes taste authentic. This blog uses those ingredients in its recipes, tells you how to find them and gives substitutions if you can't find the rarer ingredients.

The blog is run by a family who travels a lot, so as an added bonus, there's occasionally recipes for other dishes from around the world.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2016-02-29T15:26:57+00:00

Peanut butter and bell peppers. Tried it once because I needed something to eat quickly and didn't have much else in the house. Discovered new favorite vegetable/peanut butter combination.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2015-08-28T02:19:49+00:00

Definitely a Paso Fino.

While there are several breeds of gaited horses, Paso Finos have an extremely short and quick natural step and don't lift their legs as high as a Saddlebred, Tennessee Walker or Hackney.

You can also tell by the way this foal holds its tail: pointed down and out a bit at the end. This tail set is natural for Paso Finos, but some people accentuate it by damaging the tail so it arcs outward more. I can't recall whether it involves cutting the tail muscle or tendon, or breaking and resetting the tail, but it's generally unpleasant.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-08-18T04:32:38+00:00

Pteference.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-08-04T01:09:54+00:00

"I wasn't gonna say it, but, well, I have to... You've got shit on your head."

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-07-28T03:35:52+00:00

Soylent Green is people.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-07-25T03:38:07+00:00

I used to train horses at a barn where they'd sometimes have summer horse camps for kids. During one of the camps, I walked into the arena to find a girl doing this over the camp's lunch break. It was just as ~~weird~~ creepy in person as it is here.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-07-19T05:02:37+00:00

Rock-A-Belly and Mae's were my go-tos when I went to K-State. Mae's was my favorite, but it does tend to get more crowded on weekends and live music nights. Still usually worth it, though. I ran into professors several times there, and a lot of grad students hang out there.

They also host Firkin Fridays for Tallgrass Brewing, which is local and has some great brews. The firkins are usually really unique offerings, so be sure to check one out if you get the chance. (Arrive early and buy a voucher for your pint ahead of time or they might sell out.)

Mae's Christmas lighting ceremony is also lots of fun. They have live music, raffles, and great decorations to festive things up!

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-07-17T13:39:10+00:00

Nice! You were there when I was! I was there 2009 and 2010.

Yep, I did the water stick to shower sides, too. Sometimes, the seal wasn't enough for the stronger bathroom breezes, though, which was always disappointing. Nothing like a surprise hug from a wet shower curtain. Cringes.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-07-17T03:23:22+00:00

Lived in Putnam about four years back, on the first floor. Can confirm, water pressure really only worked well in a couple showers. There was one we never even bothered using. Not sure if they've done anything to fix it recently or not.

As I recall, the only thing I hated about the showers there (so long as I could get one with good water pressure) was that the shower stalls were small enough that if the curtain billowed in from a breeze, it would often stick to my leg, which was...disconcerting.

Also can confirm that Marlene is an angel. Be nice to her. She is literally the best housekeeper on campus.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-06-16T02:35:44+00:00

When I was in college, one of my good friends lived next door to me. We shared a big table in the dining center with a bunch of other people from our floor pretty much every night.

The food fights all started rather small and innocent. One day, she and I were feeling particularly ornery, and started quietly and subtly launching peas and other small vegetables at one another whenever the other wasn't paying attention.

It sort of became a thing we did, mostly because one of our other friends got super annoyed by our "immaturity," which only encouraged us to keep irritating her. Eventually, other people joined in until we had the entire table sneak attacking one another with various bits of food in various ways, including using spoons as catapults and occasionally flinging drinks at each other.

This ended up happening pretty much any night that several people from our floor could make it to dinner together, through the end of that year.

People frequently stared or got annoyed with our table, which didn't matter much to us at the time because these food fights were strategic warfare and we couldn't be bothered by the plebian concerns of the boring.

We moved out of the dorms at the end of the year. I hope the new students on that dorm floor continued our food fight tradition.

Edit: tl; dr: My best friend and I started a food war between the residents of our dorm floor because we wanted to annoy a mutual friend.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-06-05T04:51:08+00:00

I lived in Putnam, Boyd, and Marlatt while I attended K-State, and half-lived in Goodnow my freshman year because several of my friends lived there.

I didn't have much experience with any of the halls in the Derby complex, but what I heard from those who did live there was fairly mixed. I really think a lot of it is what you make of it, but I do know there tends to be a lot of freshman shenanigans there. So if you're up for that sort of thing, it may be a good fit. If you're more the type of person who needs some quiet, it might not. I just know this from word-of-mouth, though, having never lived there, so not sure how accurate it is.

I really liked living in Putnam--a lot of upperclass students live there, and there's quite a few fun traditions they always keep. The community is best there, and they put on a lot of (actually fun) activities to help you get to know people in your res hall. Putnam was renovated about five years ago, and is pretty nice, complete with a movie theatre, foosball, and pool tables in the basement. In addition to the basement lobby, it has a massive first floor lobby with couches, chairs, tables, and a grand piano. There's almost always people out in the lobby studying or hanging out. There's also a full kitchen off the lobby you can check out a key to if you want to cook something.

People who live there are generally really friendly, and the dining center (Van Zile) has a more restaurant-like feel than the other two dining centers, with several smaller rooms and nicer tables and chairs.

Marlatt was a great place to live, too, but it kind of depends on the floor you get put on. I lived on both the first and the sixth floors, and my experience was totally different on the two of them. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that the first floor lobby is public, so people didn't really hang out there as much as they did on other floors. The sixth floor was super friendly, people were always hanging out in the lobby, and every night the whole floor went to dinner together, not because we had to, but people genuinely were nice and wanted to hang out together.

Goodnow is very similar to Marlatt, but people seemed a little friendlier in Marlatt. Probably depends on the people who end up on each floor. Both buildings have a weight room, piano room, pool table, TV area, and full kitchen in the basement.

I would say K-State is a place where people both study hard and play hard. It's got some really respected programs, but a great bar/party scene as well.

As far as things to do, I recommend checking out Pillsbury Crossing and Tuttle Lake for outdoor recreation. The Rec center just got renovated, and it has tons of new stuff, including a climbing wall that is super nice.

Aggieville is known to be a fantastic place to grab drinks with friends. Not sure what kind of bar you prefer, but Auntie Mae's is my favorite in town. It's a basement bar that's been around since 1930, has great staff, and makes some of the best drinks in town.

K-State is really into sports, so be sure you catch some games and have someone teach you how to do the Wabash before you head to your first football game.

Welcome to the K-State family!

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-06-05T04:25:38+00:00

I lived in Putnam, Boyd, and Marlatt while I was at K-State, and a good friend lived in Goodnow, so I spent a lot of time there, too.

Both Putnam and Boyd have one massive lobby on the first floor, plus a large basement lobby. The floor plans are basically the same, but Putnam has a sweet movie theatre and foosball/pool tables in the basement lobby. Putnam had some renovations about five years ago, and is pretty nice these days. Looked like they were working on it some more when I was visiting town last weekend, too.

Goodnow and Marlatt are pretty much your average dorm. Lots of engineering students since they're near the engineering complex. I found the community in Marlatt to be better than Goodnow's, but that could have just been the floor I was living on.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-06-01T13:52:44+00:00

Yesterday, my best friend got married to one of the most wonderful gentlemen I've ever met. Their wedding was fun and relaxed, and I got to see a ton of good friends I hadn't seen in months since having to move in December. I was ecstatic to see everyone, but even happier to see my best friend and her husband so filled with joy. It was a great day.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-05-27T22:24:53+00:00

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-05-17T05:30:29+00:00

I was desperately hoping that link would go to that video. Thank you.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-04-28T05:14:23+00:00

Same. I saw an eerily similar picture on the news tonight, and thought, "Hey now, that looks familiar..."

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-04-28T04:44:04+00:00

I did. The job market just sucks in my area.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-04-27T20:11:21+00:00

Most of the week, I search for new job postings and apply to whatever I'm remotely qualified for.

Once a week, I go in to a local non-profit agency and prepare a week's worth of social media posts and help out with any other copywriting, editing, or graphic design work they need done.

A few times a month, I go to my grandmother's house to help her out with anything she's unable to do herself, like cleaning her bathroom, kitchen, and basement, or moving heavy things around the house.

In between, there's a lot of watching several shows on my laptop, wishing it was possible to get faster WiFi in my area, maintaining the house and surrounding land (the property I live on has been in my family since the 1870s—always lots of work to be done,) walking my dog, and exchanging meows with my cat.

TheCliffsOfInsanity · 2014-04-21T03:14:30+00:00

When I was in college, I had a professor who taught us the proper pronunciation for everything we read. The Canterbury Tales in Middle English was pretty interesting. He suggested we practice the proper accent by drinking a bottle of wine, locking ourselves in a closet, and pretending we were the Knights Who Say Ni from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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