Alton Brown on the passing of Julia Child: She gave birth to the modern American cook, to TV cooks, and one might argue, American food in general. She was and always will be our Queen Mother and our den mother, a perfect blend of fun, passion, style and knowledge all wrapped up in a willing self-depreciation that made us all feel a little better about dropping that chicken on the floor. Oh, God, don’t remind me of the chicken on the floor incident. Oops. Heh.
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Heh! PVP’s got a good gag going about LARP – live action roleplay. Come to think of it, in the gag commercial for Atlantis with the people “auditioning,” the one guy in the homemade Jaffa armor has a “realistic foam latex” staff weapon. Must remember to point that out to David next time.
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Hey, if it’s Tuesday, this must be Severe Thunderstorm Warning Bug night on TV! Every week, 2 minutes into TAR, it’s the SAME goddamn thing. At least the local affiliate knows better now than to interrupt the show with stupid storm warnings that I just have to ignore as hard as I can. This may not be a good policy on my part, especially if a tornado sneaks up on me from behind. Fortunately, the basement is nearby, and I could still watch the show on the new TV card software David has on his computer down here (snicker). Yeah,…
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Steve! No! We don’t want to buy one! We don’t care how good a deal it is! We won’t use one as a coffee table in the Underground Lair O’ Computers until one of us kicks the bucket! Honest! On Monday, Costco Wholesale Corp., better known for bulk chicken and cases of soda, started test marketing caskets along side mattresses at a North Side Chicago store and one in suburban Oak Brook. Nope. Don’t care if that’s your Costco. We’re not doing it. So don’t even try IMing me with attractive price quotes in a variety of decorator colors.
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Yeah, kind of a depressing item from a disgruntled Canadian journalist who got stuck with the “Who Is Rance” beat. The fun of Rance was always in reading Rance’s writing, not in reading words from people who used to read Rance. Yadda yadda blah blah meow meow… hey!! Is that a cut? That’s a cut! Oooh, the ll’il impertinence! But… he does have a point. I guess. And so the online whirligig slowly revolving to an end, in spite of the promises of the Administrative Staff that Rance his own bad self will be posting in a few days. Sure,…
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Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. I enjoyed reading this earlier today, but David might enjoy it even more.
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Whoa! I’ve been busy in the evenings and haven’t been listening as much to Air America Radio lately, but visited the website just now to check in and listen to Majority Report. Whoa! Big redesign! Lot’s of interesting content to browse! News items and interesting looking links, too. Very impressive, it looks like they’ve got someone on staff now who does a lot of background items for guests on the shows.
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Oy. We have made it home. I feel good and we had a great weekend, but it’s good to be back in our own house, and shortly, we’ll be back in our own bed. I didn’t sleep well at all for the whole trip. There was a bit more to the story last night after I went to bed – after a couple of hours, I started to feel very yukky. And then, after a few minutes of intense regret for eating so damn much bagna calda (basically, whole roast cloves of garlic, by the forkfuls), I eventually felt better.…
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Who’da thunk garlic ice cream with caramel mole sauce would be so damn good? I mean, I knew the bagna calda (roast garlic in a skillet) would be good; eventually we stopped bothering with dinner rolls and just ate the whole roast cloves by the forkful. I figured the crab cooked in special garlic sauce would be good (Dungeness, too) and when it came on a giant griddle set on a rack over two big empty “boneyard” bowls (for the discarded shells). But there were a couple of surprises – there was a pasta dish that was kind of an…
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We’re on the road to SF today – in case I didn’t make it clear earlier, we’re on a quick weekend trip to Napa Valley and San Francisco. Yesterday we went on a wine quest -we were supposed to go to 5 wineries and at the end we’d get a free T-shirt. Well, we succeeded, and had a great time visiting with vintners and owners and drinking great wine and petting great dogs. Tonight we finally eat at the Stinking Rose, so Steve will stop nagging us about it. I understand that we will be emanating essence of garlic for…