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[cellio]

A good discussion of rights by xiphias.

I'm cooking an SCA feast for Purim. I have recently learned that I can get goat, and I have this lovely-sounding recipe for a goat stew. Must investigate. (I have a draft menu that is now awaiting comment from some of my partners in food perpetration.) I'm looking forward to the event, especially the treatment of the book of Esther by I Genesii, the local commedia del'arte troupe.

For gamers and foodies, from ohiblather comes this link to cupcakes of Catan.

Someone published a parody of Second Life, called Get A First Life. The makers of Second Life, rather than sending a "cease and desist" letter, sent a proceed and persevere letter. Good for them!

Forwarded by osewalrus, Nigerian kitten spam.

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Re: Kosher & Goats

[cellio]

The Coopers don't allow slaughter on site (after an unfortunate incident involving people who didn't know what they were doing), so you'd have to do the actual slaughter off-site somewhere.

If you can solve that problem, though, I think you'd find enough interested people to make it feasible. There's no organized kosher food plan, so people are scattered about, but I've seen 15-20 people at a Pennsic Shabbat dinner, and there are likely more folks around. I can think, off-hand, of 15 people who usually go to Pennsic and keep kosher. (I'm not counting any of the Israeli contingent in that, so if it's a year that they come, there'd be more.)