I am sitting at a cafe with my son, watching him scarf down a macaron, wondering why I thought it was a good idea to give a toddler a plate of macarons. I guess I was excited to see the joy on his face when I handed him a plate of colorful cookies for lunch. Rookie move, I know. Sugar comes with consequences, and when he drops a half-eaten macaron on the floor and I explain to him that we probably shouldn’t finish eating it (right?

“We no longer make tourtes for an entrée…this pastry is no longer luxurious enough to appear on our most opulent tables for the simple reason that its appearance is too vulgar; even the bourgeois class scorns it and now only eat “pâtés chauds” and vol-au-vent; whereas the merchants of old feasted upon tourtes…”  - Antonin Carême Antonin Carême, renowned chef for such illustrious figures as Napoleon’s chief diplomat, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Charles-Maurice Talleyrand, England’s Prince Regent, the future George IV, and Russia’s Tsar Alexander I, the man who single-handedly modernized French cuisine in the late 18th/early 19th century, was a harsh critic of the humble tourte, even as he offered a multitude of recipes for them in the cookbooks he wrote for the instruction of fellow professionals.

In April 1979, during a workshop at the Facets Multimedia Center in Chicago, Werner Herzog said to Roger Ebert: Land of Silence and Darkness is a film that is particularly close to my heart because it is so pure. It’s one of the purest films that I have ever made in the sense that it is one in which things are allowed to come across in the most direct way. 

I’ve always loved the idea that language is a virus. About 300,000 years ago, homo sapiens first appeared in Africa. Good on us! Brand new, and already traveling the world! We hunted, we gathered, we organized HOAs, and did all the things that humans do except talk. For the first 100,000-150,000 years we existed as a species, we did not have language, which means the invention of the eye roll predates the first time someone said, “I’m fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

The FC 660C is an electrostatic capacitive 65% keyboard with a modified US ANSI layout. It has 66 keys with both the shifts having a 2.25U size and the insert and delete keys being present in a separate column. The spacebar is of 6U size and all the bottom row menu keys are of 1.25U size. The body (both the bottom and top cases) is made up of ABS plastic and the keycaps are made from PBT plastic with dye-sublimated legends.