Both.
It leaves you sad and terrified...which can be alleviated with ice cream.
Eat the ice cream.

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What's your favorite ice cream flavor? How about your favorite color? Did you choose those things to be your favorite? Could you suddenly decide--right this instant--that a different flavor of ice cream or color is your favorite and not only behave as if it was, but actually believe it was (i.e. eat the ice cream every day and not be secretly wishing it was a different flavor)?

I suspect you've exaggerated how much choice comes into play in determining these things. Genetics, early life experiences, upbringing, social ties, and a host of other factors are probably far more important than choice in determining our "personal preferences."

Unless you're trying to say we can deny our personal preferences, which is absolutely true. People who are smart can decide fitting in is more important than being themselves and pretend to be dumb in order to be socially accepted. That behavior is a choice, but I don't think it really changes their underlying preferences.

As for the second part, it sounds to me like you agree with exactly what he said. "It's not you, it's the bully." Disagreeing with that statement would mean it IS you that's the problem and you deserve to be bullied. Whether the bully is an "evil little fuck" or the product of their environment, it's the bully that's the problem, no?

The story of these two rovers is one of the most fascinating science stories of the last few decades. They're a pretty amazing accomplishment. NOVA did a pretty good show on these too.

My favorite part was that the people who run and monitor the rovers need to do so during Mars' daylight hours when the solar panels on the rovers were active. Since a day on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth, people needed to adapt their work schedule to fit. This actually turned out to be WAY harder than it sounds. Imagine adjusting your schedule just a little bit every day, i.e.: picking the kids up from school, watching your favorite shows or making it to birthday parties, etc... And to make it worse, the rover missions which were initially planned to last something like six months have now been going on for YEARS. I haven't seen an update recently but the people on the NOVA program were already so screwed up by the schedule that just about the only thing they could eat was ice cream. Their stomachs just couldn't handle all the minor adjustments.

Yeah, it takes a while for the blender to reduce the frozen bananas to that creamy consistency. It takes a while and you think it's not working, but it only takes a bit of time. Adding a few drops of water tends to speed it up, but I'm sure soy milk is just as good if not better.

Keep me posted on whatever other delicious combos you discover using other food items with the banana.

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
Well yeah initially I tried just the bananas but it sounded like i was trying to chop up rocks in my blender so (as was my experience with hummus) I found adding a little thin liquid helped a lot to keep things churning.

No, I didn't end up adding the honey and don't expect I will (bananas are pretty sweet already). I am going to try the salt idea next time I make it though b/c salt really can make flavors PoP! :-D I'm sure I will try some different fruit combination soon using the bananas as a base to see what works best. I'll keep you posted! Thanks again!

Also FYI my wife and I are trying to shed some extra fat that we both gained from becoming teachers at the same time (school lunches = unhealthy)(really that was the only thing in our diet that changed)(fuck) annnnd as I was looking up the nutrition info, I roughly figured that you could eat this "ice cream" at about 1/3 the calorie cost of regular chocolate (for example) ice cream. I think, though, that the honey would even that ratio out fairly quickly.

Well yeah initially I tried just the bananas but it sounded like i was trying to chop up rocks in my blender so (as was my experience with hummus) I found adding a little thin liquid helped a lot to keep things churning.

No, I didn't end up adding the honey and don't expect I will (bananas are pretty sweet already). I am going to try the salt idea next time I make it though b/c salt really can make flavors PoP! :-D I'm sure I will try some different fruit combination soon using the bananas as a base to see what works best. I'll keep you posted! Thanks again!

Also FYI my wife and I are trying to shed some extra fat that we both gained from becoming teachers at the same time (school lunches = unhealthy)(really that was the only thing in our diet that changed)(fuck) annnnd as I was looking up the nutrition info, I roughly figured that you could eat this "ice cream" at about 1/3 the calorie cost of regular chocolate (for example) ice cream. I think, though, that the honey would even that ratio out fairly quickly.



In reply to this comment by blankfist:
It's awesome, I know. I'm glad you tried it and loved it. Did you add a little sea salt and honey? DFT tried it and said it was some kind of "sorcery". Delicious. I like the soy milk idea. Adding peanut butter is supposed to also be good.

>> ^Payback:
If Limbaugh were to "ask a six year old in (his) neighborhood" anything, I bet it wouldn't be about computers.


I just had the image of Rushy sneaking up behind a child eating an ice cream cone, snatching up the cone and pushing the child to the ground, then running his ever increasing bulk down the sidewalk, yelling "Vote Republican!".

Thanks that made my day.