I won’t be posting anything else to this blog for the next week or so. Shortly after having been put back together, my injured foot got infected, and I was rushed to the hospital to get the stitches removed and to be pumped full of antibiotics. I’ve had an IV line in my arm since [...]
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- February 22, 2011 – 2:39 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
I came upon an interesting blog while waiting to no longer be disabled this morning. Biodynamics really is a hoax, and I’m glad at least one disgruntled Californian vineyard owner isn’t afraid to blog about it. Rudolf Steiner was a crazed, racist egomaniac, and the fact that people are still taking his rantings seriously is [...]
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Tagged: Pseudoscience
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- February 16, 2011 – 8:36 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
I slipped while chopping wood this morning and the axe travelled through my rubber boot, through my sock, and into my foot. I’d sharpened it the day before. I was briefly overcome with that strange sort of calm that often follows sudden physical trauma. “Hm, missed. Looks like it entered my body”. The calm didn’t [...]
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- February 15, 2011 – 6:56 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
The farmland we now call home has been cultivated by others before us. Crops were grown in this soil for decades, though for the past seven or eight years it has lay fallow, aside from the odd flock of sheep. We are not, however, without remnants of the glorious past. Apples, plums, cherries, hazels, and [...]
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Tagged: Plants
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- February 12, 2011 – 7:08 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Well that was an interesting couple of months. Jessica and I have returned from Asia, alive, with parasite souvenirs. We have moved to a very beautiful place, eighty acres on the southern tip of Quadra Island, where we have started doing interesting things. Back from my two-and-a-half-month blogging hiatus, I will now post regularly.
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- February 11, 2011 – 9:04 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk