Weekly Off-Topic It is comical how much better meat from a butcher tastes compared to from a supermarket. It always reminds me that I'm not actually that bad at cooking meat, but that there is something fundamentally wrong with it sometimes. Seriously, what happens to meat between the butcher and the supermarket that turns it into cardboard? I bought some marinated beef ribs and some pork loin and my god it was good.  There was also an earthquake here ... sort of. We don't have any plate lines so I didn't think we could have earthquakes, but I felt a shake the other day and I saw in the news after that it was in fact a small tremor from the hills. It just rocked my chair side to side for a moment. It was amazing because obviously I have never experienced an earthquake before and yet I knew immediately that's what it was. There was no way it could have been a big truck going by. It was surreal to feel that incredible power. An big, proper one must be terrifying.