Culinary idea of the day

I read not so long ago that beekeepers sometimes feed bees plain sugar water and get really crappy honey on the cheap. I'm guessing that this honey doesn't have much subtlety or complexity to it, without the floral notes that you might get in the honey from proper nectar-fed bees. Also, at the PNE I saw some bees in a glass tank that had a tube going out of it so that they could have at flowers, but there was also a little jar of sugar water on top for them to eat, since the tube wasn't big enough for the bees to get through unimpeded and because the flowers were kind of far away. (Really, I'm guessing it's just so that they can pad their output volume with some plain-sugar-water honey.)

But then it hit me: why not take this seemingly lame practice and turn it on its head? Sugar water might not have much flavour, sure, but there are plenty of things that do have flavour. Why not feed the bees Coke? What would the honey taste like? I'm guessing Coke.

(Actually, my first thought was root beer, as I think that would turn out a pretty interesting result. Plus the caffeine might do bad things to the bees and make them all aggressive.)

If anyone out there keeps bees and wants to try this, please do and tell me how it goes. All I ask is a free jar of the resulting honey if it's good. Also a mention on your website when it becomes the next big thing. Also a cut of the profits.

You're welcome.

Current Music: The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus

I don't remember how to do this

I realized the other day that I now have way too much stuff to do, not much of it important. I find myself in a new (old) place, starting a new job, living in a new apartment. I have, shamefully, bought myself a few new toys -- and I didn't even spend enough time with the old toys. Some of the new toys give me motion sickness; I actually have toys that literally make me physically ill. Soon work will pick up, too, which is important, and I'll have less time even to play with any of them.

But my favourite toy of all was this blog, at least for a few years there, and I certainly haven't played with it enough. I think I stopped using it when I decided that I should probably try and make some music, which was defensible. Why expend what creative energy I have on a blog, I thought, when I could be working on music? Now, though, I'm doing neither. I should change that.

How do I work this thing again?

Note to self

It's Adam's birthday.

Current Music: Metric - Fantasies

In conversation with Dickolas (Random quotes from a few days ago, provided with some context)

Chris:

That's really cool, about the hockey... I don't have anything I'm as passionate about as you are about hockey.

me:

Yeah, but one day, you wake up, your team is out of the playoffs, and you own the world's ugliest jersey, and you think to yourself, "How did I get here?"

Current Music: A.C. Newman - Get Guilty

P.S.: Worth it

Note to self

It's Galen's birthday.

Current Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Random quotes from my past, provided without context #41

Ivan:

What is it that you do for Passover?

Asaf:

Well, we gather round the table, and we sing the songs, and we tell the stories, and then we eat a Christian baby.

Note to self

It's Divyesh's birthday.