Fears about Chinese soy sauce were sparked by a report on Chinese TV that noted local makers were using human hair to create their condiments. Japanese soy sauce makers used to use human hair, too.

“During the Pacific War (World War II), food shortages meant that the soy beans used to make sauce instead became a foodstuff and hair was gathered from barbers and used to make ersatz soy sauce,” Satoshi Noguchi, the boss of Noguchi Rihatsu barbershop in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, tells Asahi Geino.

MDN: WaiWai

I decided to pull this before someone in work saw it. It would be a mixed result – maybe get a pay rise or maybe get the sack….who knows?

Neither time nor inclination…bye bye.

UPDATE: 27/6/04.

May have been a bit hasty, down and hacked off. I’ll see how we get on this week….

Sometimes you come across people who take things a bit too far. This is a prime example. FFS, give the kid a chance. I know I’ve done the vanity domain thing with Luke (and probably with the next one) but recording that amount of detail?

If I get that sad, I hope our care system kicks into action.

I like Stephen Baxter books, when I’m in the mood. He writes ‘hardcore’ sci-fi that takes a few reads to fully appreciate, plus a google or two to understand the background science he bases some of his stories on, but sometimes it gets a bit depressing. This last two weeks have been one of those times.
When I’m not in good form, I don’t like to consider things like the ultimate death of the universe or the futility of evolution on Earth. I like to wallow, comforted by my own little world and the things that I can influence…yet into this comes something like Baxter’s Evolution and suddenly the whole scale of life hits me. Both ways. I’ve just finished the book, I’m in the ‘deep thought’ funk that follows these sorts of reads and I’m facing the birth of our next kiddie circa May 25th.

Altogether, they’re thought provoking, especially for a male approaching his middle years. If nothing gets posted, it’s usually for the best. The boy is behaving well again, thank fuck, so that helps, but it’ll take a few nights for the effects of being baxtered to wear off again.

I’ll have to stop doing this, but he writes so well…