White rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit!*
Now that I've got that detail taken care of, I can wish everyone a happy New Year.
There are, of course, exceptions. People who are particularly hard to extend a loving kindness metta to.
Moving on to more positive thoughts, I can vouch for this recipe: cacio e pepe from research published last year in Nature. Two thirds cups of cheese to a scant teaspoon of cornstarch turns out to be the optimum ratio.
Here's a toast to a better 2026...

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* Spoken and typed before even the title of this piece :-)
