Preventative vs. preventive

Which stutter invented the word preventative when preventive is perfectly fine.

Pumpkin Carving

Sarah got this pumpkin from her friend.  Neither of us has carved a pumpkin before, nor were we keen about the idea.  We had to do something about the carving pumpkin, so we looked online for pumpkin carving. 

So there were two steps to pumpkin carving, gutting and carving.  We reached an agreement that Sarah was to get her hands dirty from gutting, and I will play with the knives.  We are quite happy with our first pumpkin.

Undoing Filing

Filing is boring and tedious, but it is the only way to be organized.  It is better not file than to file incorrectly.  It is okay to make a mistake, but mindlessly plonking papers in files is the worst.

Moral Consistency

BBC Analysis was talking about Killing Cows.  When we listened to it, it was a moral discussion not a scientific justification.

The first philosophers have pro-life views, and they try to find justifications about not taking animal's lives, and akin it with racism, they called speciesism.  Then some justified non-mammals as not having high cognition to have complex feels and pain, and only eat those lower organisms.  I personally think they are bonkers.

The last philosophers on the shows have a chaotic life view, understanding animals and humans are dying, and the use of their bodies should not be much different, and akin cannibalism to organ transplant, which I find enlightening.

Ultimately, they brought up the issue of moral consistency.  I admit a lot of philosophers are bonkers,  but they are probably consistent, which is actually very hard.  And I have a long held believe people should be consistent of their belief and their actions, rather than being a hypocrite.

Most of the listeners will be as confused as they have started, and started to understand their moral in consistence, but it is probably easier to eat less meat, continue to use their illogical reasons to justify their doings than becoming less hypocritical. 

Lindt excellence dark with crunchy cocoa nibs

I got them from Fulton.  I quite like the cocoa nibs, but the chocolate is not particularly high quality.

Eggless Cookies

I had David and Alvaro around for dinner, and I thought I would make some dessert.  Having no eggs in my house, I have to find some eggless recipe.  I searched and found an eggless cookie recipe, and it looked very safe, so I made them.  They turned out well, Alvaro and David both had two cookies each.  Eggless cookies is definitely better than a flourless cookie!  And they are definitely a good recipe for emergency use.

Tripe

Tripe is the only offal I eat, and I quite like tripe.  I was prohibited from adding the trip in the stew, so I had to cook it some other time.  Sarah was being dramatic about the flavour and the aroma of the tripe.  I will just have to cook them at home.