A Modern Visigoth

I found myself thinking of the fabled Octomom this morning, and reflecting that while families were often very large in pre-industrial eras of history, primarily due to lack of birth control and high infant mortality that meant you needed to have lots of kids to be sure of being supported in your old age, no-one prior to the age of modern medicine would have dreamed of having eight children in a single pregnancy and having mother or children survive.

Prior to IVF, it was simply ... inconceivable.  ;)

So, there I was, in the bathroom.  (No, this has nothing to do with bathroom humor.  It's just where I was.)  And I glanced at the book someone had left open on the vanity, which was a cookbook, open to a page that began with a recipe for "piccolo pizzas", which turn out to be little miniature vol-au-vent-like "pizzas" in cup-like crusts made from Pillsbury bake-and-serve frozen biscuits.

You know you're a geek when the very first thought that goes through your head is, "No, you've mis-spelled pico."

<hoche> i don’t think i ever saw the abyss

<hoche> there was some other deepwater movie i saw

<hoche> sphere?

<midi> I’m sorry.

<web> *twitch*

<hoche> it was pretty bad

<web> My friend strongly recommended that book to me and listed it as the “best book he had ever read.”

<web> ... I told him to read a second book.