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[23 Jun 2009|08:39pm] |
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I am going to put in a plug for a website I just discovered (thanks to Wired): stilltasty.com. Cause I have questions like this all the time. As do many people, I suspect. Want to know if that food in your fridge is still good? Check this site. Its database is not exhaustive, but is still pretty impressive.
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[15 Jun 2009|05:01pm] |
CNN seems to like to run "articles" on relationship topics such as:
-Men and women can't be platonic friends
-You can't be friends with your ex; your S.O. will be justifiably jealous (and that's your problem)
-When are in a serious relationship, you have to give up your same-sex friends
Maybe I'm imagining those first two, but it seems like the articles probably exist. The third one is a new one: here.
So, so prescriptivist... and what really gets me is how many people in the comments agree. Who say that drifting apart from same-sex friends is "part of growing up." Who view this not just as something they're resigned to, but something that's their DUTY.
What ever happened to making up your own rules, and doing whatever makes you happy?
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[03 Jun 2009|11:53am] |
Under the Tracks just came on my iPod. I still love that song incredibly much. It was my favorite song my senior year in high school (and it's from the album whose cover is my default LJ icon).
Wanna hear it? There's a YouTube version with lyrics in the video: ( video behind the cut )
And yeah, this is the song that I wrote about having a similar riff to "Strong Enough." If you'd like to compare them, here's that song (haven't watched the video all the way through, since I'm at work, so I can't vouch for the visuals): ( video behind the cut )
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[01 Jun 2009|10:03am] |
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Ugh. I got some bug bites on my foot while camping, over a week ago, and they're flaring up. They weren't swollen at all, and were only slightly itchy, when I first got them. Now, for no apparent reason, they're going crazy.
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[28 May 2009|12:31pm] |
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The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid |
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I really hope the Decemberists have a harpsichord at their concert! They must, right? It features in so much of The Hazards of Love, which apparently they're playing straight through.
If there's a harpsichord, that'll pretty much, like, make my year.
On another note, here's a philosophical article I'm reading about Battlestar Galactica and personal identity of cylons.
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[15 May 2009|08:12am] |
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"Knitting folklore says that if you knit a strand of your hair into your work, you will be forever bound to the person who receives that work. In my life, this means that a lot of people are forever bound to my cat." -Stephanie Pearl McPhee (the Yarn Harlot)
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[14 May 2009|09:37am] |
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Mmm, mocha. By which I mean, I added a splash of coffee to my hot chocolate. XD
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[14 Apr 2009|11:21am] |
First post from this journal (12/2/2002):
9:08p
Woo hoo!
Here we are... my new journal...
So umm... I haven't done any homework tonight except for music theory... and I only did that cause Jackie came into my room with some questions about it. I'm kinda glad she did, cause otherwise I probably would be telling you right now that I hadn't done ANY homework at all.
Fortunately I've got free from 10:30-12:40 tomorrow, so I'll be able to do a bunch of homework then. Yay middle-of-the-day frees. :-P
First post from my first lj (2/3/2002):
8:23p
Well. Welcome to my...journal. Yay. It's not customized (aesthetically) at all yet. Oh well. Anyway...what a weekend. Yup. Life is...confusing. Latin homework is...not getting done. So, as exciting as this is, I'm going to have to postpone talking about my weekend until later tonight, and try to translate some Vergil. :-/
Current Mood: working
Sense a theme?! I'll call it "being in high school and procrastinating on my homework." :P
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[08 Apr 2009|03:00pm] |
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My hard-plastic Exploratorium mug, which is made from corn, has developed a fairly large crack. I don't think I've treated it very harshly, so I suspect it's just a shortcoming of the corn plastic. The cashier told me that it'd disintegrate in 40 years -- that was long enough, I figured, that I'd be happy to get another one then anyway.
Maybe 40 years from now, corn plastic will be good enough that corn plastic mugs will last 40 years. However, I'm not going to get another one now, because I suspect it would only last 2 years, like this one did. It's not that the mug is unusable now...I don't think it'd leak or anything, but there's no way I could effectively clean it. I can see hot chocolate remnants stuck inside the crack. Oh well.
I did get a lot of good use out of this mug, though -- it's been my vessel for hot beverages during the workday pretty much the entire time I've worked here.
My grandma gave me a large mug for Valentine's Day with hearts on it; I think I'll bring that in and retire the Exploratorium mug to a place of honor. I could toss it and let it disintegrate, but I'd rather hang onto it for a while, 'cause I like the Exploratorium. Yeah.
Incidentally, the Exploratorium's online store doesn't list this mug. I wonder if they only sell it in the physical store, or if they discovered that the material wasn't quite as hardy as they'd hoped?
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[07 Apr 2009|06:01pm] |
I am finding surprisingly little online as far as cheese bread recipes go.
There are a lot of recipes for cream-cheese-filled bread.
Recipes for garlic bread with cheese on top.
Recipes for bread with cheese throughout the dough.
But what I'm looking for is like what they have at the farmers' market, only not spicy. That is: a loaf of white bread, sorta challah-like, with gobs of warm cheese in the middle of the loaf.
I finally found one recipe like this. But it doesn't say how to make the dough; it instead refers to frozen bread dough that you buy ready-made. I hadn't known that existed. It's awesome that that's an option, but it isn't the route I want to go with this bread, so. I think my plan is to use that recipe's technique for getting cheese into bread (mixing grated cheese with eggs and, I think, milk; then rolling the dough out with a rolling pin, putting the cheese mixture in the middle, and folding the dough around the cheese), and use a Tassajara or Better Homes & Gardens recipe for the dough.
I am hungry!
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[05 Apr 2009|05:35pm] |
ha: http://www.everythingsoundslikecoldplaynow.com/
What really amuses me is that the actual Coldplay fans will get more out of this than others...because this video is a play on several of Coldplay's music videos :P
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[03 Apr 2009|03:39pm] |
More commentary on songs playing on the radio:
Nothing Ever Hurt Like You by James Morrison would be an excellent cha. *sigh*, I miss dancing.
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[02 Apr 2009|04:38pm] |
Triple M always plays this song - they're playing it right now - apparently it's called Strong Enough by Sheryl Crow. (It goes "Are you strong enough to be my man?") It rubs me the wrong way...I'm not sure if my feminist sensibilities should be offended or not, but I have a feeling that they should be.
But anyway. The main reason I'm posting about the song is to say how extremely similar the main guitar riff is to that of Under the Tracks by Creeper Lagoon.
Completely different songs. I think Triple M should play the Creeper Lagoon song, but they're never played on the radio. Ah well.
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| Writer's Block: GIP (Gratuitous Icon Post) |
[31 Mar 2009|04:22pm] |
Haha, I'll go with this one. I could use it more often, but it wouldn't have anything to do with the post. Not that my icons always have anything to do with the post...
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[22 Mar 2009|07:25pm] |
OK, this is probably a silly question, but:
If I got some molasses in bulk (which I did), and put it directly into a Mason jar (they have them available right next to the bulk liquids), is there any risk of botulism? I can find tons of stuff on the internet about botulism, but don't even know what search terms to use to ask this question. I hear lots about botulism when it involves canning fruits, vegetables, herbs, meat -- but what about liquids like honey, molasses, maple syrup, other things that I might take from the open air and put into a sealed jar?
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[13 Mar 2009|02:07pm] |
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The alt-text for today's XKCD references Douglas Hofstadter. <3
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[12 Mar 2009|10:54pm] |
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Recipe review: ( baklava )
Next up: maybe those sugar puffs I mentioned? I dunno, I'm not as enthused about them as I was before, but they look pretty straightforward in terms of steps (if perhaps finicky in how they decide to come out), so I'm thinking of giving it a try. Or maybe I'll do some brownies -- I just bought a brownie pan. (Don't know how I didn't have one before...as a matter of fact, as I think about it more, I'm almost certain I used to own a square pyrex pan...what happened to it?!)
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