A question for my younger friends

[ritaxis]

So personhead James Nicoll is asking about youthful attitudes towards space travel here. It's his impression that you whippersnappers born after 1980 aren't as wildly eager to go to space as your elders have been. So, tell me, or tell James: what do you think? Do you want to fly to the Moon, or Mars, or Andromeda? Can you just taste the vasty reaches, do you hunger for the stars (experienced while confined in a metal and ceramic container about the volume of a couple of SUVs, of course)? Ask your buddies, too.

Me, I'm not going to tell you what I think, for fear of influencing y'all.

On another front, I made a Shaker kumquat pie for game night -- but I neglected to cut a piece and I don't know how it worked. I suspect I should have used a lot more kumquats, which I had for once because of a present.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It's his impression that you whippersnappers born after 1980 aren't as wildly eager to go to space as your elders have been.

No, it isn't.

If you reread the post, you will notice that the part where that assertation is made is from a post Dwight Thieme made, which I labeled as being from a post by Dwight Thieme. My comments were an introduction to the quotation, the question

"True? Not true?"

and a speculation the sample may be biased because of where I posted the question.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Oops. Sorry for the missed attribution. I did read it right the first time, but it slipped my hand between the reading and the writing.

On that other front

[ellarien]

That's the second time this week I've seen mention of cooking with kumquats. Back in the days when my father was getting them in gift baskets, or when I used to pick up a small handful at a time from my local grocery store in London, it never occurred to me to do anything but eat them raw, skin and all.

Re: On that other front

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Well, that is the classic way to eat them, but when your old acquaintance arrives on your doorstep with a shopping bag full of kumquats (and 2 more of mixed Ponderosa lemons, red grapefruit, tangerines, and oranges), you start doing crazy kumquat things. Zac made kumquat mousse, I think. We still have a bunch more.