startup workflow

This is probably only interesting to me.   Some guy has some other good thoughts here.

 "In fact you can throw up imaginary items and see if they sell just for research. "

OK I lied. I'm a car guy

All this time I've been saying I'm not a car guy, there's no car I want, I can't even fit in a sports car.

I've been lying because I know for a fact I could fit in this 62 Ferrari.   I would find a way.

(skip to 2:00 if you want to see it driven)

Maybe we were wrong about MSG

From  

John MahoneyBuzzFeed Contributor

The Notorious MSG’s Unlikely Formula For Success

LINK 

The FDA, while acknowledging “short-term, transient and generally mild symptoms” in “some sensitive individuals who consume 3 grams or more of MSG without food,” has never removed MSG from its “generally recognized as safe” list. So why, after almost five decades of science that is vaguely inconclusive or inaccurate at worst, or definitively affirmative of MSG’s safety at best, does the ingredient remain divisive?

 They sent samples to microbiologists from UCLA and Harvard who identified the strains of bacteria responsible for the fermentation. They also advised them on how glutamic acid works in the body. “We asked them, ‘So you’re positive that if I ingest MSG and I eat the same amount naturally, the body digests it in the same way?’ Chang recalls. “And they said, ‘100 fucking percent.’” 

I’m at home. It’s late. I’ve decided to run a study of my own — I’ve decided to make a glutamate bomb posing as a pasta meat sauce. .... 
I add the first half-gram of MSG to the ground beef as it begins to brown in olive oil, and it feels almost illicit. I feel a tingle of excitement, and take a deep whiff of the sizzling meat. Is it just that this beef is good ... or does this smell better than usual? I remind myself that MSG has no odor, and I continue. Out of the pan comes the beef, and in goes shallot and garlic, sautéing in the MSG-doused beef fat. Is it possible that MSG is making one of the best smells in the world (onions and garlic sautéing in fat) even better?

Lech Wałęsa jumped a fence on this date in 1980

On 14 August 1980, after another food-price hike led to a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk—a strike of which he was one of the instigators—Wałęsa scaled the shipyard fence and, once inside, quickly became one of the strike leaders.

The Solidarność strikes eventually brought down the Soviet Union.

Good job, Poland.

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé sing Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun"

Here's Soundgarden's original.    I like them both.

Ed Hochuli is so manly ....

Bret Fav Ruh Farve invites him over for some backyard football.