i'd be fired if that were my job
This morning, I had a really hard time getting out of bed, and then while I was getting dressed, I realized that my bra had popped a wire and was no longer wearable. Clear signs of Monday if I ever saw them.
Yesterday, while the Rangers were breaking my heart losing to the Bruins, I made these strawberry sour cream scones (pic), but I left off the brown sugar topping because the recipe says they get soggy if you eat them leftover and I'm planning to eat them for breakfast this week.
I guess the topping is what puts them over the top (or, I suppose, really great strawberries, which these were not - they were decent, they smelled and tasted sweet but didn't have that overwhelming flavor excellent strawberries have), but they don't suck. I can see why there's a refrigeration step though - maybe I used too many strawberries, but after I folded them in, the dough was much too sticky and heavy to handle easily. After 90 minutes in the fridge, though, it was pretty easy to cut them into wedges and move them around the tray.
Other stuff:
= Grantland interviews Damon Lindelof. I thought he had some interesting things to say about how it feels to take on a beloved canon and deal with fans' expectations, especially in the age of social media.
= The Guardian on Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr.
I don't feel cautiously optimistic, even though allegedly Yahoo is going to mostly leave Tumblr alone for now (except for, you know, attempting to monetize the content even more blatantly than Tumblr currently does, and I wonder if the TOS is going to change regarding who owns the content - I'm sure people who actually post original work there, rather than reblogging various gifs of Chris Evans as I do, will be more on top of whether that changes, and migrating away if it does), mostly because I remember how they left Delicious alone until they sold it to people who stripped every useful thing from it, and they are usually the end of the line for innovative web services.
We've all been through this before in some iteration - e.g., egroups to Yahoo or LJ to Six Apart to SUP - and it usually just ends up making these sites unfriendly to fandom or just plain unusable. *hands*
I like Tumblr, but I don't have the attachment to it that I did to LJ or Delicious, or that I've developed to DW and AO3, so I'm mostly just interested in seeing how this plays out (will people come back to DW? I would like that), but I'd suggest finding a way to backup any original content you've got on there, just in case. Maybe it will be different this time. Or, you know, maybe something else will pop up in the interim that not only allows gif sets and reblogging, but also commenting and easier discussion. Who knows?
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/569877.html.
people have commented there.
Yesterday, while the Rangers were breaking my heart losing to the Bruins, I made these strawberry sour cream scones (pic), but I left off the brown sugar topping because the recipe says they get soggy if you eat them leftover and I'm planning to eat them for breakfast this week.
I guess the topping is what puts them over the top (or, I suppose, really great strawberries, which these were not - they were decent, they smelled and tasted sweet but didn't have that overwhelming flavor excellent strawberries have), but they don't suck. I can see why there's a refrigeration step though - maybe I used too many strawberries, but after I folded them in, the dough was much too sticky and heavy to handle easily. After 90 minutes in the fridge, though, it was pretty easy to cut them into wedges and move them around the tray.
Other stuff:
= Grantland interviews Damon Lindelof. I thought he had some interesting things to say about how it feels to take on a beloved canon and deal with fans' expectations, especially in the age of social media.
= The Guardian on Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr.
I don't feel cautiously optimistic, even though allegedly Yahoo is going to mostly leave Tumblr alone for now (except for, you know, attempting to monetize the content even more blatantly than Tumblr currently does, and I wonder if the TOS is going to change regarding who owns the content - I'm sure people who actually post original work there, rather than reblogging various gifs of Chris Evans as I do, will be more on top of whether that changes, and migrating away if it does), mostly because I remember how they left Delicious alone until they sold it to people who stripped every useful thing from it, and they are usually the end of the line for innovative web services.
We've all been through this before in some iteration - e.g., egroups to Yahoo or LJ to Six Apart to SUP - and it usually just ends up making these sites unfriendly to fandom or just plain unusable. *hands*
I like Tumblr, but I don't have the attachment to it that I did to LJ or Delicious, or that I've developed to DW and AO3, so I'm mostly just interested in seeing how this plays out (will people come back to DW? I would like that), but I'd suggest finding a way to backup any original content you've got on there, just in case. Maybe it will be different this time. Or, you know, maybe something else will pop up in the interim that not only allows gif sets and reblogging, but also commenting and easier discussion. Who knows?
*
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/569877.html.
people have commented there.