Letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)

With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

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Lasagne - I got layers.

Oh boy…

Probably not, but they’d definitely patent the method.

Some decade and change ago I used to sell people Drupal installs at £200 a pop. They’d get a pretty secure codebase, the ability to add content through a gui and if necessary have customer accounts.

Pretty much what killed it as a business was everyone expected to be on the first page of Google because business advisers were telling them that sitebuilders should do SEO as standard.

I saw that! Amazing stuff.

Thank fuck you’re here, was going to use defrost on the microwave.

It’s not acceptable to freeze children? Brb…

Cheetara.

Lee Gatlin take:

Could be you smelled American.

I’m a pasty, old, white man and even I’ve got a half-full can of ghee in the fridge. I know you don’t have to keep it in the fridge but I’m short of cupboard space.

London, UK. Ghee is an everyday word. So is Bombay Aloo.

That doesn’t excuse my stupidity because I’d guess that the places that say dub-yuh also say eh-yuss for ‘s’.

Yeah, you’re right, I’m wrong.

I was counting double as one syllable. It’s still early on Sunday morning for me here.

PEBKAC

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

Like that time my uncle told me his laptop wasn’t charging and I discovered that he’d plugged a phone charger into the headphone socket.

Where in the world do you live that you need five syllables to ‘GSW’?

The vast majority of Earther cats believe themselves to be stuck in this quandary.