Subject: Forge-cooking YAK (was: Solar Powered Forges)

From: Michael Spencer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:28:00 EDT

Daryl wrote:
>> the forge, and put on the coffee pot.  When it was boiling real good,
>> he'd throw in the coffee and a couple of eggs,  and boil 'em in the
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>> coffee, while toasting a chunk of bread on the end on the end of the 
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> Yup I think that would wake me up. Not a nice way to wake up but it 
> sure would wake you up none the less

Spider Robinson's version of Haeckel's Law say, "Breakfast
recapitulates phylogeny."  For some of us, the stage we've acheived
before the first cup of coffee is somewhere down around fungi and
lichens where caffein, albumin and calcium shards are barely
distinguishable. The advantage of *good* over commonplace coffee is
that, as one gradually moves into the hominid phase and rudimentary
conciousness emerges, the initial awareness is of *coffee* rather than
hot kerosene.  ;-)

- Mike