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Nov. 14th, 2007 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickDinner this evening -- You know, Livejournal and Blogspot and whatever have created a nation of Pepys... the interesting things about Pepys were that he kept a pretty regular journal AND that it was one of the very few day-by-day records of the times. It was a window inot the small history of London from 1659-1669, a long and fairly detailed window into the past.
Big history, people know about that. It gets recorded and there really aren't that many Look on my works, ye mighty folk around the place. If you were Big History (tm), you probably made it into the books without Pepys. The stuff that used to get lost was the day-to-day crap of how people actually lived, and Pepys did that. Now, we've got a nation of Pepys, each telling what they had for dinner and who they beat at cards.
I'm happy to do my part.
Dinner this evening was instant-pickles (half a cuke, quartered lengthwise, deseeded, and sliced, put into sugar and cider vinegar) followed by half an acorn squash roasted in the oven and topped with crispy roasted acorn squash seeds. Yum. There may be popcorn later, if I am really good and make decent progress on the HoHI.
Big history, people know about that. It gets recorded and there really aren't that many Look on my works, ye mighty folk around the place. If you were Big History (tm), you probably made it into the books without Pepys. The stuff that used to get lost was the day-to-day crap of how people actually lived, and Pepys did that. Now, we've got a nation of Pepys, each telling what they had for dinner and who they beat at cards.
I'm happy to do my part.
Dinner this evening was instant-pickles (half a cuke, quartered lengthwise, deseeded, and sliced, put into sugar and cider vinegar) followed by half an acorn squash roasted in the oven and topped with crispy roasted acorn squash seeds. Yum. There may be popcorn later, if I am really good and make decent progress on the HoHI.
