You're close. The 'mother' is a culture of bacteria and yeast. It's added to a base of sugared tea. That mother will eat up the sucrose and poop carbon dioxide, fructose, glucose and some acids along with a little ethanol.

Fermented things are good for putting beneficial flora back in your gut. I'm all about the kefir and the yogurt with the active cultures.

I've been debating rolling my own cultured pickles because I've got a basement where I could store a crock.

Terrestrial bugs? Pass.

Aquatic bugs? I could give up beef entirely for shrimp. I don't eat a lot of beef as it is, maybe one or two meals a week feature beef prominently.

I'd happily add crayfish and prawns to my diet as well.

Okay, not Eli, Noah. Noah sounds like Lucas the Spider.

Eli sounds like Lucas the Spider, which is awesome.

Look at Tiny Dungeon - I just got it and its super flexible and super simple.

I would link you to it, but my work filter is now less lenient. ESPN still gets through, but gaming sites, no.

Yay Mike!

The thing that I heard today that made me happy is that one of the watchdog groups can prove that Conway broke the law when she tried to pimp for alleged sex offender Roy Moore from the White House lawn. The thing that makes me sad is the Trump is the one responsible for punishing her. I swear, when...

Treppenwitz - polish this sequence a lot. I think it would have been funny if you didn't fumble it as much.

There are other competitive games where you have less at stake than Catan and less work to do than Carcassone. I suggest Khan of Khans - a card game were you compete to gather the best herd of cattle for your tribe. Every game takes about 30 minutes to play and the art is wonderful. Also, Smallworld...

Thanks man!

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Charity should provide as much help as possible. I don't see how delivered planned meals are better than credit card based accounts.

And these people are taking thousands of dollars from him to hear their words echoed back to them again.

Damn them.

Yancey should get the degree and do everything he can to make sure that no one else goes to that school.

Time to sail Earthsea again.

Time to sail Earthsea again.

Watching HAPPY!

I love Chris Meloni acting completely off the chain and Patton Oswalt is a joy.

Brinksmanship is the only move they have.

Well, that and lying.