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Ah... yes. Jurassic Park. Well.
You know, it's—it's ostensibly a film about dinosaurs, right? Magnificent creatures, impossibly resurrected through the... the audacity of genetic engineering. But that's almost the distraction. The real attraction is watching very intelligent people discover that intelligence, by itself, is not a substitute for wisdom.
You see these brilliant scientists—and entrepreneurs, always entrepreneurs—who ask, "Can we do it?" with breathtaking enthusiasm. And they never quite linger on the infinitely more interesting question: "Should we?" That's where things become... deliciously complicated.
Then, of course, nature does what nature has always done. It improvises. It refuses to follow the tidy little spreadsheets we've prepared for it. Every carefully designed system begins to unravel because life has this extraordinary tendency to surprise us. It's wonderfully inconvenient.
And the dinosaurs! My goodness. They're terrifying, yes, but also strangely beautiful. You can't help but admire them even as they're enthusiastically attempting to remove you from the food chain. That's a very humbling experience.
In the end, I'd say Jurassic Park isn't really about monsters. It's about human confidence meeting reality at about thirty-five miles an hour... usually accompanied by the sound of a Tyrannosaurus rex announcing that your business model has experienced an unexpected disruption.
And if I may borrow a sentiment from someone I know rather well: life has an uncanny habit of finding its own path, regardless of what we had planned. Which is exhilarating... and occasionally requires running very, very fast.
Jurassic Park (1993). Directed by Steven Spielburg, Based on a Novel Written By Michael Crichton
Performances by Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, BD Wong
Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards. A Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Production. Distributed by Universal Pictures,
Clever Girl
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1.5 oz (45mL) Mango Chinola
1 oz (30mL) Italicus
.5 oz (15mL) Sfumato
.5 oz (15mL) Blood Orange Juice
.5 oz (15mL) Vanilla Simple Syrup
Dropper Saline
Dropper Green Mint Oil
3-4 Dashes Angostura Bitters
Black Sphere
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In a shaker tin, combine 1.5 oz Mango Chinoa, 1 oz Italicus, .5 oz Sfumato, .5 oz Blood Orange Juice, .5 oz Vanilla Simple Syrup, 2 dashes of Rhubarb Bitters, and a dropper of Saline. Add ice, cover and shake until chilled. Double strain over a black sphere garnish with Angostura Bitters and Mint Oil and pull into streaks.
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4 oz Fresh Mint
4 oz Neutral liquid oil like liquid coconut oil
Prepare an ice bath in a medium sized bowl and set aside. Fill a small saucepan 75% full of water. Bring to a boil. Drop fresh, cleaned mint into the boiling water for 1 minute, strain out of boiling water and immediately plunge into ice bath. Strain out of ice bath and set onto clean cotton or linen towel. Press to remove excess water then place into a blender with 4 oz of liquid coconut oil. Blend until liquified and pour into a glass jar, seal and store in a dark place for 24 hours. Using a coffee filter, strain out green mint oil into a clean and dry dropper bottle. Store in a cool, dark place.
Dino Dropping
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1 oz (30mL) Raki
.5 oz (15mL) Vodka
1 oz (30mL) Ginger Liqueur
.5 oz (15mL) Peach Schnapps
.75 oz (22.5mL) Lemon Juice
.25 oz (7.5mL) Maple Syrup
Fresh Blueberries
Sage
Mexican Cocoa Meringue
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In a shaker tin, combine 1 oz Raki, .5 oz Vodka, 1 oz Ginger Liqueur, .5 oz Peach Schnapps, .75 oz Lemon Juice, .25 oz Maple Syrup. Add ice, cover and shake until chilled. double strain into a nick and nora drop in two fresh blueberries and place a chocolate meringue on top.
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