Mom's backyard. She loved sitting on her deck with her cuppa of a morning. Anyway, laundry's done. I've been avoiding laundry of late, because it reminds me of Mom, and endlessly folding sheets and towels upstairs while our old Siamese cat, Beebee, scuffled under the sheets we were trying to lay out, "playing." Mom would scold her, and then ruffle the sheets and snap them out so they fell perfectlly even, requiring just a couple of sharp tugs to do hospital corners at the bottom. At this point, a suspiciously cat-shaped lump would be visible in the middle of the…
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Five months have passed since Mom died, and it's still a struggle sometimes. I mentioned at the time that there were certain emotional landmines to be negotiated in the months and seasons and years to come. The first snow of the season will be any time now, although it probably won't be heavy enough for Mom to have declared that it was "Doughnut Day." In other words, it's almost time to make the doughnuts, but I'm not really set up for that. However, I can provide her recipe for Disappearing Cookies, which I do know how to make, though they…
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I was up far too late last night tinkering with this WordPress beta version of my blog, I admit that. Moments after posting a comment over at DDtB inviting folks over for a preview, I enabled a “Friends” macro to point automatically to his blog. I set it to recognize his nick, ***Dave. Then I changed a couple of style options directly, in the style.php file that my husband David has warned me repeatedly not to mess with. So I wasn’t sure what exactly I had done when I refreshed my screen to see my changes, and POOF!! No blog!…
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‘Schroedinger’s Ball’ by Adam Felber – The New York Times – New York Times I have to admit, I’m a Fanatical Apathist, so I’m looking forward to reading Adam Felber’s new novel. I’m a little puzzled by this review in the Grey Lady, though – did the reviewer like the book, were they charmed enough to imitate the style, or just showing off that they “get” all the romantic metaphors possible with a solid background in quantum physics? Anyway, it sounds pretty darn good for a WWDTM denizen, so well done Adam. Take 20th-century physics, add Johann Strauss, the Waltz…
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Simply Recipes: Chicken Paprikash Recipe mmm!! Something to do with the leftover yogurt from tonight: substitute it for sour cream in this recipe for Chicken Paprikash! 1 whole chicken (about 3 1/2 pounds), cut into 8 pieces 1 Tbsp butter, softened 1 garlic clove, crushed 2 large onions, thinly sliced 1 Tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup chicken broth 2 Tbsp sour cream
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The Archaeology Channel – Atipanakuy This video of two Peruvian “scissors dancers” seems to be making some sort of point about the struggle between native Peruvian and imposed Spanish culture through the ages, but I’m damned if I can make it out. It’s in Quechua with Spanish and English subtitles, but the text seems to be saying something about dreams and harps and violins and a lot of poetic what-not. As the Scotsman newspaper notes in a review elsewhere, “for specialist tastes only” as the ritualistic nature of this dance apparently involves putting objects up the nose, which is “rather…
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Boing Boing: How thieves steal RFID-enabled cars Apparently, it’s absurdly easy to steal a car by hacking or social engineering if it has a RFID key. And some Honda hybrids apparently can be started with a sekrit combination of pulls on the emergency brake and a faked or disabled key in the ignition.
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HULK’S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET Aw! The big green guy is now Our Man In Blue, keeping New York safe and filling out paperwork like this: Hulk stopped robbery by smashing puny van that jewel thieves were driving and then Hulk had a milkshake and walked an old lady across the street. This is what Hulk did today. That’s the nicest “sorry I haven’t been blogging much lately” post I’ve seen in a while.
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Just in fromJoi Ito’s Web: Firefox Cosplay-a-rama. Stormtrooper Danny Choo took on the Akibahara district of Tokyo with other cosplay aficionados, spreading Firefox. “You don’t need to use Internet Explorer.” “We don’t need to use Internet Explorer. Move along. Move along.”
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And the sooner they all get taken up and crash into each other mid-air, the better: For the first time in my Christian walk, I have no doubts that the day of the Lords appearing is upon us. I have never felt this way before, I have a joy that bubbles up every-time I think of him, for I know this is truly the time I have waited for so long. Am I alone in feeling guilty about the human suffering like my joy at his appearing some how fuels the evil I see everywhere. If it were not for…