I had to hunt around for a good green tomato pie recipe. Or rather, I was hunting around for a green tomato recipe, and found green tomato pie, and thought that couldn't be right, so I searched some more and then decided to make one.
It was nice. Also, completely bizarre.
One thing which someone mentioned to me, and which is brililant, is that instead of blogging or livejournaling or diarying, you make a Wiki of your life.
French is most often the language that I'm annoyed by because I don't know it, so that would be the most useful to me.
This is how I feel about Ancient Greek. Actually, I mostly feel frustrated that I can't pronounce it, even. Or, I did feel that way, but then i started studying it. Then I put it down, because I was trying to learn it on my own and at some point I just wanted to have someone to ask questions to.
Latin would also be nice. Or, really, anything.
I read a few of the comments on groups that I knew well (or, in one case, worked for) and was amazed at how many factual mistakes were there. I'm not sure whether they were intentional mistakes or not, either. Anyway, lot of information, most of it wrong, and all of it presented amateurishly.
This is a blast from the past (I found out about it maybe two years ago, and was told it was a blast from the past then), but it's still pretty great.
The song, untranslated, is also kind of a perfect illustration of a good pop song lyric: Mostly words you don't really listen to, understand, or care about, mixed with a few killer phrases ("hasta la wonderful").
Wolof, how do you want to spell Perec's name? It's not as if he has any accents in it. (His name is "wrong" in standard French, and David Bellos's excellent biography goes into this a bit, as I recall, as a mark of his otherness/alienation/outsiderdom/etc.)
I think Perec might have written the longest (semi-sensical) palindrome ever, but it was in French. For a more interesting very long English palindrome, check out 2002: A Palindrome Story by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie.
Also when I went into the camera store to look at replacing it, they pointed out that digital cameras don't often last more than a year or two without going haywire anyways. They're that fragile.
My A70 fell a lot. It became erratic (purple lines running through the pictures, sometimes) and then finally it wouldn't connect to the computer anymore.
Figuring it was pretty much toast, I decided to open it up, just in case opening it up and closing it might, you know, do magic. Which sometimes works.
It didn't work, and it was so unlikely that I would find some way of repairing the camera that... well, don't bother, is what I'm saying.
I'm a guy, and I've only slept with other guys. If that makes me gay, then so be it, but I'm not particularly attached to that idea.
sexyrobot, I guess I don't mean to be rude or presumptuous, but have you been out for very long?
My mother was diagnosed with this last year. (She's in her 50s.) She's had a zillion health problems, however. She's taken this one a bit harder than most, however. (She's a nurse, and handled most of her illnesses well, but this one has her spooked.)
I've read up on it a bit, and while it's no cakewalk, it doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as my mother seems to think it is. But she knows how healthy she is better than I do.
These are indeed great, and that subtle one is fantastic. It's also nice to see some editorial cartoons that aren't done in the traditional scribbled ink style. Are there other editorial cartoonists working in untraditional artistic styles?
I've made two batches of what is basically the same recipe for those pumpkin cookies in the last two weeks. They're great.
(There are so many cookies because they're kinda small.)
Caffeine is a diarrhetic (so is alcohol) -- it makes you pee and dehydrates you. I was a bit surprised until I realized you meant diuretic...
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Sure...you say you dig pie..."
I had to hunt around for a good green tomato pie recipe. Or rather, I was hunting around for a green tomato recipe, and found green tomato pie, and thought that couldn't be right, so I searched some more and then decided to make one. It was nice. Also, completely bizarre.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Wiki"
One thing which someone mentioned to me, and which is brililant, is that instead of blogging or livejournaling or diarying, you make a Wiki of your life.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Teacher Gone Wild!! (wmv File)"
Now everyone can be Frederick Wiseman!
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Which new language"
French is most often the language that I'm annoyed by because I don't know it, so that would be the most useful to me. This is how I feel about Ancient Greek. Actually, I mostly feel frustrated that I can't pronounce it, even. Or, I did feel that way, but then i started studying it. Then I put it down, because I was trying to learn it on my own and at some point I just wanted to have someone to ask questions to. Latin would also be nice. Or, really, anything.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Discover the network."
I read a few of the comments on groups that I knew well (or, in one case, worked for) and was amazed at how many factual mistakes were there. I'm not sure whether they were intentional mistakes or not, either. Anyway, lot of information, most of it wrong, and all of it presented amateurishly.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Yatta dance Video (Windows Media File)"
This is a blast from the past (I found out about it maybe two years ago, and was told it was a blast from the past then), but it's still pretty great. The song, untranslated, is also kind of a perfect illustration of a good pop song lyric: Mostly words you don't really listen to, understand, or care about, mixed with a few killer phrases ("hasta la wonderful").
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "The darkness of Kelsey Grammer."
Oh dear.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In ""
Wolof, how do you want to spell Perec's name? It's not as if he has any accents in it. (His name is "wrong" in standard French, and David Bellos's excellent biography goes into this a bit, as I recall, as a mark of his otherness/alienation/outsiderdom/etc.)
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
I think Perec might have written the longest (semi-sensical) palindrome ever, but it was in French. For a more interesting very long English palindrome, check out 2002: A Palindrome Story by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Digital Camera Vs. Wonder of the World"
Also when I went into the camera store to look at replacing it, they pointed out that digital cameras don't often last more than a year or two without going haywire anyways. They're that fragile.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
My A70 fell a lot. It became erratic (purple lines running through the pictures, sometimes) and then finally it wouldn't connect to the computer anymore. Figuring it was pretty much toast, I decided to open it up, just in case opening it up and closing it might, you know, do magic. Which sometimes works. It didn't work, and it was so unlikely that I would find some way of repairing the camera that... well, don't bother, is what I'm saying.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Harry Stephen Keeler"
(A Spineless Books link! Excellent!)
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "<b>BiCurious, George?</b>"
I'm a guy, and I've only slept with other guys. If that makes me gay, then so be it, but I'm not particularly attached to that idea. sexyrobot, I guess I don't mean to be rude or presumptuous, but have you been out for very long?
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
Like, I wonder if some monkeys are black. Or maybe Jewish. Like that?
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
Why the "gay" in small type?
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In ""
My mother was diagnosed with this last year. (She's in her 50s.) She's had a zillion health problems, however. She's taken this one a bit harder than most, however. (She's a nurse, and handled most of her illnesses well, but this one has her spooked.) I've read up on it a bit, and while it's no cakewalk, it doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as my mother seems to think it is. But she knows how healthy she is better than I do.
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Best Editorial Cartoonist EVER."
These are indeed great, and that subtle one is fantastic. It's also nice to see some editorial cartoons that aren't done in the traditional scribbled ink style. Are there other editorial cartoonists working in untraditional artistic styles?
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "Curious, George: I want a flask,"
Is there a proper method for cleaning a flask, or do you not worry about it?
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
In "2004 Family Circle Cook-Off"
I've made two batches of what is basically the same recipe for those pumpkin cookies in the last two weeks. They're great. (There are so many cookies because they're kinda small.)
posted by Casuistry 19 years ago
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