Cottage cheese
What the fuck is wrong with cottage cheese? I love dairy. I'll eat or drink any type of yoghurt, cheese, ricotta, fromage blanc which I am being told translates into "quark", Faisselle de Rians by the vat, labneh, kefir, curd, whey, ice cream, dulce de leche, cheesecake, and the such.

But not cottage cheese.

Cottage cheese is vile. It looks vile (little balls of gooey curd soaked in whey), it tastes vile (bland and salty at once), and every single time I consent to try it again it makes me gag.

I don't get it. It's supposed to be curd in whey. I like curd. I like whey. So why do I feel nauseous just thinking about cottage cheese?

Unplugging
Every so often, someone does a "story" on unplugging. On how they don't access email / the Interwebs / twitter / Facebook nor take phone calls for an evening / a weekend / a week. And how peaceful and relaxing it is, and how they can focus and hear themselves think again.

I don't buy it.

I haven't unplugged in quite a few months, but I make it happen every so often, rarely on purpose, but either due to circumstances (eg. spending a few days with my family in a place where there is no Internet access) or because I simply have better to do. I am sorry to report that I don't think any more clearly and don't feel any more relaxed that when I am "connected". Or, put in other words, I am not any more stressed out nor thinking any less clearly when online. Maybe because I know how to use the Internet as a tool rather than letting it take over my life?

At war with Al-Qaeda

The head of the French Institute of Strategic Analysis suggested the French government's rhetoric was normal.

"It's important to make that kind of announcement," Francois Gere said. "I think it's made of the same stuff" as former U.S. President George W. Bush's tough line on al-Qaida.

This, from an Associate Press release, is meant to reassure me? Fuck. Under what rock have these people been living?