December 2010
18 posts
The Joy of Cooking, Irma Rombauer
lazybookreviews:
No one in the history of human existence has ever mentioned using a mandoline to slice anything without the story culminating in “…and then we sat in the emergency room for three hours.”
I mean, I appreciate that you can slice things very finely with them, and everything, but couldn’t we just, like, eat chunkier foods, and not die?
Truth.
two more days; two more exams. very possible.
uc bearcat detained, cited, kicked out of stadium →
for throwing snowballs at today’s football game and then shoving a police officer to the ground after being asked to stop.
of course, i found this out through the news rather than at a game.
and there goes productivity for the day.. →
adaptivity:
super-adorable live cam on baby red pandas.
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for aaron, mostly, but really, for everyone.
it is typically only in lacking sleep that i am, on very rare, special occasions, able to remember any dreams i’ve had in the past. tonight, i am realizing how ridiculous my dreams were of the previous night, and it is quite distracting from the task at hand. which would be, composing a 3000-word research paper in the next 5 hours. dreaming crazy dreams sounds like such a better...
getting to know you worksheet: complete the sentence:
“after high school i will probably …”
asiana (“asia-nay,” to prevent any wonderings or mental mispronunciations): “after high school i will probably … get a good job and be caring and a good neighbor. i crossed out ‘probably’ because i am gonna do that. ‘probably’...
much like mention of toast, mention of cinnamon immediately commands my attention. today, in the worst class ever, there was mention of cinnamon over and over again, with regard to the color of a bear’s fur that was being converted from nominal into interval data in order to allow us to run a logistic regression. how impossibly distracting.
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and then, there is cinnamon toast. hah.
NPR: Hanukkah's Historic Roots In...Cincinnati? →
npr:
Hanukkah, which begins this evening, has its roots in an ancient Jewish revolt against the Syrians. But the fact that we celebrate it the way we do today has its roots in, of all places, Cincinnati:
There is nearly no record of people celebrating Hanukkah just a couple of centuries ago. But it began to be an important Jewish holiday in the second half of the 19th century when two rabbis...
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