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Also annoying when one of those "ingredients" is self-rising flour. In other words, flour, baking soda and salt.

I put up a sign on my curb that said FREE SNOW.

Sadly, I didn't get any takers.

My own initial reaction to the title image was that this book was part of a series organized like an encyclopedia and I wanted to go search for the volumes covering A–Gi.

I'm now imagining you as a guest performer on one of Weird Al's tours.

Asimov was such a compelling advocate for humanism that I'm sure that he truly believed in it. It is so disappointing that he couldn't apply the ideal of human dignity on a personal level to many of the people around him.

That looks like the Scalzi from the evil alternate universe.

I do like the top hats, but I somehow feel their beards should all be bushy muttonchops to complete the look.

And if he had been using a thermometer in ºK he would have been incinerated!

That's as close to an ice plunge that I ever want to get.

Actually, peanut butter and cream cheese sandwiches are pretty good, and so are peanut butter and sharp cheddar sandwiches.

The only thing I can think of that looks like product placement (but certainly isn't) is in Zelazny's This Immortal. In post-apocalyptic Earth, alien occupiers value Coca Cola highly and the formula had recently been rediscovered.

I just finished making a bean soup myself. Mine is a chunky bean and vegetable soup using conch peas and sea island red peas (both really beans). I'm enjoying mine, I hope you are enjoying yours.

I severed the tendon in my left thumb watching Star Trek: The Next Generation.

(I was cutting up cardboard for recycling using a box cutter, so it's not actually that ridiculous that it happened.)

I create a tear gas experience every year when I prepare Passover horseradish from home-grown roots. But that's SUPPOSED to happen.

I'm sorry as well. I shouldn't post after having made a long drive on too little sleep, but I have to decompress somehow.

Your post might not have flown over my head in better situations. Carry on, maybe I'll get it next time.

What do you mean when it comes out? It's been out for over half a year and readily available for the last few months. He thinks the magnetic docking is really cool, and it even looks kinda neat to me even though I am very uninvolved in that kind of thing.

It sounds a little like you're trying to channel Boris Karloff. This made me imagine him singing a more traditional version of the song in a ghostly voice, the only changing in the wording being "if only in YOUR dreams".

For people saying you risk a lawsuit by doing this, I'd like an explanation of the legal difference between putting a glitter bomb in a porch package and putting an explosive dye pack in a packet of money like banks do in many robberies.

They seem like quite similar situations to me.

I had a little cooked wild rice left over from making soup and I was making potato latkes for the first night of Hanukah, so I tried mixing the wild rice into some of the grated potato mix and made latkes from that. They were really good! The oil popped a lot while cooking them though.

Glad it was soy sauce and not fish sauce. Someone I know dropped a broke a nearly full bottle of it in their apartment kitchen. They and their neighbors were NOT HAPPY.

Looks tasty! Hope you enjoyed them.

I'm waiting until Passover to make our family's latkes. I grew potatoes and winter squash this year and will mostly use them.

I love that movie and should give it another rewatch sometime soon. I love the little bits seasoning the movie, like the Shirley MacLaine appearance.

We had World Book and Child Craft too! AND my parents bought the World Book yearly supplements for years (decades, maybe?) afterwards.

Calls like that can become a new level of stupid and frustrating like the time I got a call supposedly from my wife while we were sitting down eating dinner together.

What are you making with yours? I recently made a small batch of membrillo for the first time in years, and it was so good I wondered why I had ever stopped.

That is my favorite red lentil soup. Instead of using vegetable stock, I use water and add celery, bay leaves and a little extra onion and carrot to essentially make stock in the pot, and I like to use a little lemon zest with the juice.

It's great on a cold blustery day.

Out of curiosity, who gets the tongue and kidneys? Or do you not divvy up the steer to that extent?

One of my email addresses is at least that old and might possibly be 5+ years older. The other is somewhat younger, but still college-aged.

Yay living long enough to have old email addresses.

I'm guessing you apprehend villains by enveloping them in giant tortillas, thus creating the criminal burritos you talked about the other day.

I have no idea what your superhero costume looks like, though.

Wait, you wrap criminals in flour tortillas?

I did not know this.