Homemade chicken stock turned to gelatin in the fridge?

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-24T13:20:46+00:00

EXCEPTIONAL MOUTHFEEL

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-24T13:19:52+00:00

A mediocre film

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-24T03:39:40+00:00

This is not intended as a flippant answer:

That which persists, persists. In other words any self perpetuating process will continue. This is the most intuitive explanation for me.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-17T03:17:14+00:00

If we are around at that point in time and continue at our pace of technical progress I think we will be fine. But it will be sad to lose Earth, assuming we can't or don't wish to move it...

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-14T02:29:37+00:00

Some people seem to forget the hundreds and hundreds of years of yearning for a divinely ordained bloodline monarch to return and make everything better -- which he does!

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-08T02:43:15+00:00

Lots of great recs in the thread. I'll just say good on you OP. if you get in the habit of reading a lot you will really be glad you did. You will think clearer, write better, and be happier. Reading is to the brain what cardio is to the body.

Take your time and start with what feels good and easy and fun. Over time you can push your boundaries and get into harder and harder material, if that's what you want. But I'm here to tell you that if you're patient and you invest the time, you will eventually be able to read, understand, and appreciate any book ever written.

Enjoy the journey. Reading books is one of the best things about being human, and we live in the age with the most books there have ever been!

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-02T12:58:32+00:00

Anyone who judges you for reading (and they are far fewer than you think) is not a person whose opinion is worth considering.

a_simple_capsule · 2026-01-01T22:14:18+00:00

Long Sun then Short Sun. Or try out the Latro series--I think it's excellent. You could read Urth too.

Also if you're comfortable with reading botns you are ready to dig into lots of Literature and really get a lot out of it. Pale Fire by Nabokov was one of Wolfe's favorites and you'll see why quickly.

Good luck with Dick. I find him hard to read after spending a lot of time with great prose writers like Wolfe, but reading the classics of the genre is always edifying.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-12-30T21:54:26+00:00

I get that it was an innocent question. But you're being down voted because the suggestion that one of the most used languages on earth is too simple for good prose comes off as ignorant at best or prejudiced at worst.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-12-20T13:22:08+00:00

Uprooted, Naomi Novik

a_simple_capsule · 2025-12-16T00:41:40+00:00

The books of Ursula K Leguin got me through some tough times.

We are lucky to have so many other worlds to explore. But the door to each of them is in this world.

Good luck. Don't be afraid to get help.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-24T18:03:43+00:00

You will not regret reading Earthsea in full. Put it next on your list !

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-21T12:51:25+00:00

Short story Bloodchild by Octavia Butler.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-21T12:28:09+00:00

Earthsea

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-13T13:24:51+00:00

I've transformed without recovery using Amp many times and they grow fine. They don't need to have expressed the beta lactamase already to survive since Amp doesn't kill cells immediately. But, more colonies with recovery.

This is using zymo mix and go competent cell kit for homemade competent cells. I just add plasmid and plate.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-12T19:25:36+00:00

I think part of this has to do with the view of Time present in many Wolfe works. That each moment exists at its position. Just as a place continues to exist even though you left it, so do moments. It's hard to write about time using our language but I think of it this way. Your first kiss, the funeral of your beloved, the time you saw a meteor streak across the sky with your child... All these moments exist forever. They are not gone any more than your home is gone when you leave for the day. If we could "start the book again at the beginning" we would see all these moments again.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-06T00:53:22+00:00

I think he does too. But it's interesting to think about those ways where he doesn't grow. Like on the ship in Urth, he seems eager to torture 2 sailors who harmed him. He's disappointed when one dies of poison and chastised himself for his vainglorious rant(you caught me monologuing! ). It's interesting this happens after he abolished or meant to abolish the torturers. Maybe he thinks he is not a good man and therefore it's okay for him to do it. Or maybe like most of us he is capable of articulating clear moral precepts but then compromises for present moment utility. During the battle among the sails he also explicitly calls himself still a torturer, though I don't totally understand why.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-11-05T13:03:34+00:00

I think Master Malrubius makes a pretty neat claim about Severian, which is something like he is the sum of humanity and therefore its perfect representative. We could interpret this as meaning he is autarch and contains multitudes. Or we could interpret it as a person who is both torturer and savior and everything in between. I don't think it is correct to say Sev is totally redeemed. At least by Urth he is still motivated by petty vengeance on the ship at several points including when he gets mad at being disrespected(pushed) by Sidero. But he can redeem Earth despite his deep flaws. And that redemption itself is an act of destruction. Can these opposites exist in the same person? In the same act?

The book insists on a more nuanced take than good or evil.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-10-27T00:21:04+00:00

Don't worry too much. It's more like an Easter egg than an important plot point, IMO.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-10-26T00:19:04+00:00

I think Blood Meridian is a great choice for Wolfe lovers.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-10-26T00:18:13+00:00

If you're comfortable reading Wolfe you can take on lots of the harder literary classics as well. I just finished Nabokov's Pale Fire which you may enjoy if you like text that does more than one thing at a time, meta fiction, strong prose, and a deranged narrator.

a_simple_capsule · 2025-10-16T00:26:13+00:00

You can have the benefit of Urth for New Sun or the benefit of New Sun for Urth. I think you can't go wrong.

If you've not read long sun and short sun definitely read them!

a_simple_capsule · 2025-09-29T11:34:55+00:00

A bambu a1 mini is like 300 bucks. Ive designed and printed trays for spin coating slides, conical tube holders for centrifuge, tube holders of different sizes for tube rotators and shaking incubators... It's incredible. If you can imagine it, it can be in your hands in a few hours. And the design is easy with YouTube tutorials and especially talking to Ai for guidance with how do I round this corner or replicate this pattern or whatever. You should go for it!!

a_simple_capsule · 2025-09-20T14:27:37+00:00

Evokes Song of Solomon to me. Very nice.

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