| Testing |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|09:57 pm] |
Testing LJ cut for practice
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| Ok - I'll bite - (or not) |
[Aug. 14th, 2008|10:12 am] |
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (it's on The List, tho)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (I ate a chocolate covered ant once, but I don't know if that counts.)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (I don't like lettuce, pickle, etc)
56. Spaetzle (yesterday)
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (all of them - and when they are good they are the food of the gods.)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (apple or lemon)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (rabbit, but not hare)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
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| UU church shooting in Knoxville |
[Jul. 27th, 2008|01:19 pm] |
There's been a shooting at a UU church in Knoxville - at least seven to the hospital, reports of one death.
I can't think about this |
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| "Keen enjoyment" |
[Jul. 15th, 2008|09:57 pm] |
"Hide, witch hide!
The good folk come to burn thee.
Their keen enjoyment hid behind
The gothic mask of duty."
Principles or friends. I wish it was a false dichotomy, but I'm going to pick friends, if I'm being made to pick. |
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| Writer's Block: Choose a Power |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|12:15 pm] |
Teleport - invisible - why would I want to?
Flying is mildly tempting and I enjoy doing it in the virtual reality world of Second Life, but even that experience versus the teleport experience in Second Life makes me say teleport. |
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| Wolves Win Calder Cup |
[Jun. 11th, 2008|12:23 am] |
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5-2 over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
Whee! It was an excellent game.
I have confetti in my hair... but I managed to dodge most of the silly string. |
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| I am opposed to capital punishment. |
[May. 12th, 2008|08:16 pm] |
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Also torture. I really am. So I suppose I need to find something else horrendous to think about doing to spammers who use my email address for a joe job.
Regular ISP's spam filter is catching a lot of it and after I killfile everything from daemon or postmaster - about 400 more an hour, I only have to hand kill about another 300. But it is very very annoying. |
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| Librarything's list of books tagged "unread" |
[Apr. 26th, 2008|11:37 pm] |
Bold I've read, Underlined were read for school, (a long time ago) Italics were started but not finished.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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| Wolves win! |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|01:11 am] |
This particular 4-1 win after last night's 0-2 loss was very pleasant. Our evening was enlivened by the presence of a number of businessmen(?) from Brazil, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who seemed to have had a marvelous time, although it was clear that their understanding of hockey was even shakier than their almost non-existent English. (They had one or two English speakers with them.)
But they definitely had the right sort of attitude - soccer must be spiritually similar and have a similar esthetic.
I did have one minor question - near the end of the game they started singing a song that my husband and I know in English as "Ay yai, yai, yai - in China they do it for Chili" but which most of the people (besides the Brazilians) around us were unfamiliar with.
So do I just have an unfortunate familiarity with rude songs? |
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| Kentucky |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|10:51 pm] |
So we drove down into spring, coming from Chicago to Hopkinsville.
It is beautiful, the redbuds are blooming, and although there was some rain Saturday, it was mostly sunny today.
People talk differently here. It's amazing how much of a regional accent remains.
And we had the "they are all related" experience again. Someone at the UU church mentioned that her mother's maiden name was the same as my husband's, and a little checking leads me to believe that she's a distant cousin of his. |
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| Hockey and more |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|12:15 am] |
After winning their last two games the Wolves lost tonight.
The winning goal on Wednesday with a tenth of second left was a pretty hard act to follow, but last nights come from behind win was pretty exciting.
Tonight, alas, they lost. Possibly they were tired - I felt like I've spent a lot of time at the rink & I was only watching.
One thing about tonight was that it was one of the games that the AHL is experimenting with having two referees. Usually hockey has had one referee (with the ability to call penalties) and two linesmen. Linesmen call violations involving "offsides" and "icing" although they have a second major duty of forcibly disengaging players who are fighting.
Unfortunately two referees seem to be just as able as one to make at least as many bad calls and fail to call any number of incidents that seem obvious to the home fans.
But the really interesting thing tonight was the secondary entertainment. During the two minute breaks that are called for the benefit of television broadcasts having commercials, a wide variety of entertainment has been developed, but one popular thing with the crowd is putting camera shots of the crowd up on the big screens on the gondola.
One of the "events" for a break for some years now has been the "Kiss Cam." It started as a thing around Valentines Day, I believe, but it is done fairly often now. The camera scans the crowd and runs along rows finding couples, who are encouraged to kiss, and are cheered for doing so. (Or alternately there is fairly friendly laughter when one person or the other recoils, because seating sequences haven't put appropriate partners together.) Older couples, younger couples, sometimes parents & children - it all comes across as very sweet.
One feature of it has been mixing in at least one shot running along the opposing teams bench, and some of the time an opposing player will play along and plant a kiss on a team mate, which gets a cheer two.
Last game & this game both there was some additional mugging for the crowd that tickled me no end. Last game, they were running along a row (they do this fairly slowly) and one guy reached across the girl next to him and kissed the guy sitting beyond her. And this game, they were on a section and instead of kissing the guy next to her, a girl turned and kissed the girl on her other side.
And both of these got as big (or possibly bigger) cheers as any other kiss.
This helped take some of the bad taste of the attidudes that sparked the last post I made out of my mouth. In fact part of the pleasure was thinking how it would make Mr. Wright nuts. (or more nuts.)
Even if it is all mugging for the camera, it's a sign of change. I know it doesn't mean that the world overcoming heterosexist prejudices, and it even may raise troubling issues around respect, but it was still fun and oddly cheering to have as a norm in a place like a hockey arena, which you wouldn't necessarily expect anything GLBT friendly.
This post makes me realize I need to round up some more userpics though. |
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| Oh ick. |
[Mar. 14th, 2008|04:34 pm] |
I had recently picked up the first two books of a trilogy by John C Wright and have been bouncing off of them when I tried to read them. The characters seemed "off" somehow and the world (I think deliberately) a place full of scary, evil and profoundly twisted adults.
I had sort of the same trouble with some of the stuff in the Pullman books, especially the last one. But I had been going to try again, until I read this unpleasant and bigoted screed.
http://johncwright.livejournal.com/153285.html
He pretty much lost me at "pro-perversion" and even more so at the thought that he's teaching his bigotry and disgusting thoughts to his children.
His whining about poor persecuted Christians is just more of the same worldview.
I rarely pitch books, but I'm probably going to do so with these. My own sense of what's wrong is that his view of sexuality is so bent that the way in which one of the female characters is treated late in the book is a depressingly revealing look at his subconcious and not something I want to read. It isn't just that he's obnoxious - there's a vegetarian whose blog I was just reading, whose books I still like even though I think he's whacked. This just makes me think it unlikely that it's worth my effort to try to find something.
If you are good enough you may be able to transcend that (Card manages off and on, for me at least.)
It isn't just political, but at some point I don't want to support people who turn my stomach, any more than he does. And if he can't see the difference between pedophilia or necrophilia and being gay, he's the one who is perverse by my standards. |
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| Lunar eclipse coming |
[Feb. 18th, 2008|05:26 pm] |
There's a lunar eclipse coming - Wednesday night
10:00 to 10:52 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
9 to 9:52 Central time.
I like eclipses - I hope we're not overcast here in DC where I'm visiting and I hope the same for those reading elsewhere
Information here
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/15357796.html |
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| I will floss |
[Jan. 5th, 2008|05:29 pm] |
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Regularly! Really. And brush my teeth regularly. And go back in three months for another cleaning.
This sudden conversion brought to you by someone who spent from 7:30 this morning until 10:30 this morning in the dentist's chair having her roots planed and some cavities filled. (I didn't have any cavities until I was in my thirties and developed bad habits.)
Ow. Ow. Ow.
I'm going to take some more ibuprofen, eat something (that Panera egg souffle at 7 this morning was a long time ago) and see if I can continue to nap through the worst of it. |
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| Last week my Tunsten T5 went for a swim |
[Sep. 15th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
Don't ask how it came to do this.... it's annoying and embarrassing. It was clean water, not salt or soapy or anything.
It still didn't like it. It flickered and went dead.
I tried gently agitating it with centrifugal forces so that a good bit of water came out of it.
Still dead.
My T5 has been around for quite a while, (My T3 died at a Minicon several years ago) and the secure digital slot would no longer hold a card in place - I had to wedge them in with teeny weeny wedges, plus the t|x has built in Wi-Fi and my T5 wi-fi card was cracked (although still working).
So I ordered the T|X and then the fun began. The first thing is always locating all the damn keys and unlock codes for things. I'm pretty good about that, but almost all of them involved contacting customer service, not just doing self service stuff.
so I got the Kinoma player unlocked (it took a couple of tries, it isn't dependent on any of the easy stuff, you have to email Kinoma with the old information and they email you back something that works with the new device id and would no longer work with the old device id. But you have to let them know you aren't reinstalling, you are deactivating and transferring.
Intellisync which lets my Palm talk to Lotus Notes needed to be reinstalled and that took a couple of attempts, especially since they've been sold to Nokia. I had to install the new Palm desktop and then reinstall a newly authorized Intellisync. But the address book and the calendar are once again talking to each other.
I still haven't successfully located versions of electronhuts Klondike and Freecell, which I had paid versions of. The unlock codes I have records of don't work.
And I'll have to redownload new copies from Fictionwise of the Secure Mobipocket books keyed to my new device ID. Good thing this isn't last month when the Mobipocket DRM server was down for ten days.
Bless E-reader - I entered my unlock code on the new device for one book and any of 434 books are unlocked...
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/romsfuulynn&deepsearch=ereader
Actually I don't have quite all of them on my card, but the last time I changed credit cards I redownloaded everything all at once, so that's an every three year refresh, unless my card gets stolen or compromised.
But that wasn't the real crazymaking stuff. It purports to support Rhapsody to Go and I've spent several days trying to make it work, without success. At the moment the 14day free trial is making me think they can take it and fold it. (Although there is a lot of cool stuff there - I've been listening to Peggy Seegar)
Furthermore, Rhapsody or something upgraded Quicktime from 7.0.4 to a more current version, which doesn't support the wonderful Kinoma producer that painlessly changes avis into lovely perfectly sized MP4s that play on the Kinoma player.
Finding a 7.0.4 version of QT and getting the more current version of QT to uninstall was an ordeal. Taking a number of hours of persistence.
But I just got Producer working again, which is good, because the new TV season's about to start.
And I also found someone (Chris Short in Mankota,MN, email him at ips at chartermi.net for more info) who repairs palms. And apparently is both good and not expensive. Over 2500 ebay feedbacks and not one negative!)
So I mailed it off this morning and we'll see if it can be revived.
But it's a lot of stuff that I didn't need to spend time on. |
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| My fried chicken |
[Aug. 25th, 2007|11:53 pm] |
Hmph. I'm no longer able to comment on Ginmar's journal (her privilege, I understand why) but I had carefully typed up my fried chicken recipie and I don't post on my journal often enough anyway.
In a ziplock gallon bag
I have no idea if the measurements are right - I just fling them in....
Flour -- (umm- I cook for four to six so measurements aren't entirely helpful but maybe a cup to 1 1/2 cups.)
Garlic salt - a lot - I put in a heaping tablespoon or more for a cup of flour.
Fine ground red pepper (cayenne) -- you should be able to see it is sprinkled on the flour, but be gentle, especially if it is fresh from the store. Maybe a half teaspoon.
Lawry's Seasoned Pepper - (this has bell pepper, red pepper, and black pepper - you can just use fresh ground pepper but this is better. Maybe a teaspoon.
Poultry seasoning - a teaspoon - heaping.
Celery salt or ground celery seed (not whole, it will burn) a teaspoon.
Now the tricky part. You have to have been cooking bacon and you cook it in part saved bacon grease and part canola oil. All bacon grease is more likely to burn, not mention being heart hostile. On the other hand, the bacon flavor is important. Proportions are between you and your frying pan. Serve with white rice.
This is also good on cubed chicken breasts, boneless, skinless. |
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| Tornado sirens |
[Aug. 24th, 2007|06:36 am] |
Yikes - yesterday I was home, and at around 2:30 the tornado sirens are going off. Initially it was "what" because the sky was blue to the east, but it rapidly became clear why. Actually took shelter, pulled out the emergency bags, etc.
Note to self - need to buy new AA batteries. |
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| OK, it's MBTI |
[Jul. 13th, 2007|05:20 pm] |
Ok, I know that some people think Myers-Briggs Type Indicator tests are only one step up (and not much of a step even) from astrology, but I found the concept revalatory when I first encountered it. (Most of all that people really could seriously answer lots of those questions differently.)
So I fell for this one, especially since it did in fact call my type as identified from the professional version of the tests with only eleven questions.
| Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISTP) | 
Your personality type is reserved, methodical, spirited, and intense.
Only about 6% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 8% of all men
You are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving. |
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| arghh. |
[May. 26th, 2007|07:21 pm] |
Laptop (which is a work laptop) had glitched back on April 19th between the morning and afternoon. but it was just complaining about a corrupt file so I wasn't that worried. Wrong Tried reinstalling the file, hal.dll, but it was still toast. Finally just reinstalled XP and will take it into the office to let them incant over. (They will need to install Notes, Office, etc - I've got a browser for the moment and that will allow me to check work email enough to get by until Tuesday. But damn that was tedious.
So we're in Kentucky and I got my day in at the library in the genealogy section and got a couple of key pieces of info about Thomas J Edwards and Ruth McColpin. Got a death date for him, and that he was a widower and found a child that died at birth which narrows her death date down to a four year span. Yay!
However, I'm hoping that Rhoda, Thomas Edwards mother was a second wife, because otherwise it looks like Susan Edwards married with a relationship that would be pretty weird even for rural small towns. |
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| Happy Feminist is back! |
[Mar. 26th, 2007|09:52 pm] |
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Happy Feminist, which is one of my favorite blogs had gone suddenly quiet with no explanation, and after some months of worry most of us had resigned ourselves to the thought that we might never know what happened.
But she's back, just got overtaken by life and events! And I'm really glad. She's good stuff.
There's also a feed which I hope I have edited this entry to show
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) happy_feminist |
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