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Lunchtime on Humpday. The time to empty the link collection...

• The Importance of Humor. Roger Ebert is getting his voice back, and he's testing it by telling jokes. Actually, this is a serious article on how Ebert is using an electronic device to regain his voice, using snippets of his actual voice collected from innumerable broadcasts. Yes, he is ( Read more... )

Ah, Hump Day. The week goes downhill from here. Wait, that’s not right. In any case, it is hump-day, so here’s some lunchtime hump-day news chum:

• From the “Whole Lotta Shakin’” Department: Today is the anniversary of the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake. The Daily News has a nice interview with two Oliver View workers with a nifty slide show. So, for those ( Read more... )

I’ve been known for years and years for the good charoset* I make for the Pesach table. I typically make a large container of it, for it not only serves us for the Pesach table, but we eat it all week for breakfast and the occasional snack. Charoset tends to come out early in the seder (the Pesach service), so folks tend to much on it while waiting ( Read more... )

Some lunchtime news chums, garned from the usual skimming:

• From the “More Things Going Away” Department: Yesterday, I wrote about some things that are going away, like Bakers Squares and the old Pepsi logo. Today’s news brought another thing that is disappearing: Viewmaster Scenic Reels. Hell, I’m surprised that Viewmasters are still aroundETA: In ( Read more... )

The New York Times has an interesting article today on the flavor enhancer MSG. I'm sure we've all tried to avoid the substance, eating at oriental restuarants that are MSG-free, presumably due to bad reactions such as headaches. However, the article makes it clear that whether or not they add MSG directly, many food products contain it naturally, ( Read more... )

Now I know I'm out of it: I don't even have energy to review stuff I brought home. So far, all I've done is watch movies... so far, Kentucky Fried Movie and Rat Race.

Who out there remembers the Usenet Cookbook? The Usenet Cookbook was an attempt by Brian Reid of DEC to collect lots of recipes, and mail them out in troff(1). The newsgroup died ( Read more... )

This afternoon, we've been busy. In the last two hours, I made:

• A batch of four dozen gluten-free chocolate chip pecan cookies (plus three regular old frozen dough ones for me)
  
• A pot of rice
  
• My famous honey-mustard chicken.
  

While doing this, the Guruilla made a loaf of gluten-free banana bread. Still to go is a bunch of steamed broccoli (I'll make ( Read more... )