1. One of the best things about using a slow cooker is the way the cooking smells slowly pervade the house. (Savory Slow-Cooked Grains is on the menu for this week.)
2. It occurred to me to wonder just how many webcomics I follow. Some of them have LiveJournal feeds; the rest are sorted into folders in my Bookmark list - Comics M, Comics T, Comics W, etc., culminating in Comics U, for those whose schedule is not tied to the week. (Yes, that means that most comics appear in more than one folder. It's simpler for me, that way.) Anyway, I just pulled the data together and discovered that I currently follow no less than sixty-seven webcomics. The full list is under the cut.
( What I Read )3. I just finished reading William Dampier's book on his voyage to New Holland and back. It's strangely engaging; not too much exciting happens, but his careful descriptions of what he saw in the places he touched land are interesting. (He's careful to distinguish what he actually saw from what people he met told him about; though he mentions the two-headed amphisbaena, for instance, he makes clear that he never saw one.) There are also a lot of drawings, of the lands he passed and of the animals and plants he mentions, but the display on the Kindle is too small. I may have to go through the copy on my home computer, just to look at the pictures.
