Dumplings. And Sharks.
So iTunes continues to astound me. Normally it's shuffle function is fairly intelligent, or at least I find it to be so, but it just went from this:
to THIS:
Like really, iTunes?
In other news, I made homemade dumplings the other day. Could have used some salt (I completely forgot to season both the dough and the meat filling, oops) but eh. Dumpling/pierogie production goes a lot faster when you a) have a partner to help roll and cut out the dough while you fill and fold, which in my case was a pair of grudgingly-lassoed teenage boys who wanted to touch neither the flour ("It's dusty!") or the meat ("It's gross!") and b) fry and boil them in the same pan at the same time. To do this, if you didn't already know, you cover the bottom of a pan in oil and fry the dumplings for a minute or two, then just pour about half a bowl of water on top, cover and cook for another five minutes. Easy as pie, which is great because I'd already been making dumplings for like three hours at this point and was not standing around to boil and then fry them separately. If you're only cooking for one person, though, and not four, I can see where these would be a pretty easy (if time-consuming) meal. Might post the recipe if I can figure out how to scale it down, as it currently makes something like sixty dumplings.
Still haven't cracked open The Instructions yet, oops. What I really want to do is take another shot at Faire le Bon Choix: Comment notre cerveau prend ses dècisions, because a few posts by my friends recently have reminded me that oh right, I will lose my French if I don't practice it. I'm a total baby about practicing and I have no excuse because one of my best friends is francophone (Hi, C, if you're out there) but I hate making mistakes in my grammar and I frequently forget what gender nouns are. I can at least read still, though, even if my oral and written skills are shot. I hope I haven't lost my Spanish completely, I'd only had a couple years of lessons under my belt before I got sick...
I don't have any more news so here, have a picture of the shark toy dragonarya got my dog for Christmas. I have named him Mr. Sharkie. He says aaaaaaaaaaay.
Current Semi-Philosophical Question On My Mind: If time is change, then the superpower of 'stopping time': would it not be in fact just extreme, extreme speed? Though their perception of it might differ, they are in and of themselves creating change, and each movement will take and create 'time' perhaps only for themselves and whatever objects they interact with. For those who are not within their bubble of perception, however, it would appear as if time stopped and one person, say, moved objects, or themselves. So to have the superpoower of 'stopping time', would you not simply have to be so fast a person cannot percieve the changes you are causing, no matter the number? (ie. even if you make a million or a million and one changes, it will still not be percieved by any being) But of course that brings up the paradox of three changes taking longer to make than a million, and how can they appear the same to an outsider but still take relative amounts of time to the person with the superpower? Assuming that there is no point at which the changes become visible to the outside while the superpowered person is still causing more change. And of course, all of this being said with the understanding that even though time is 'stopped' for those on the outside, time is not stopped completely because it is still a force in action on the person with a superpower.
Also, on a completely different note, on an episode of the Big Bang Theory that I saw, Sheldon said that if teleoprtation ever became possible, it would necessitate breaking down and destroying the original article and creating an exact replica in the secondary location, but I disagree. One would simply need to break down the original article to a particular level and very quickly transport those particles to a secondary location, right? Like the one in Willy Wonka did by sending the particles through the air. I mean, it couldn't be through the air because then what would happen if the air in question was consumed, but it could be similar in principle, I think.
Aaaaanywho.
Click to viewto THIS:
Like really, iTunes?
In other news, I made homemade dumplings the other day. Could have used some salt (I completely forgot to season both the dough and the meat filling, oops) but eh. Dumpling/pierogie production goes a lot faster when you a) have a partner to help roll and cut out the dough while you fill and fold, which in my case was a pair of grudgingly-lassoed teenage boys who wanted to touch neither the flour ("It's dusty!") or the meat ("It's gross!") and b) fry and boil them in the same pan at the same time. To do this, if you didn't already know, you cover the bottom of a pan in oil and fry the dumplings for a minute or two, then just pour about half a bowl of water on top, cover and cook for another five minutes. Easy as pie, which is great because I'd already been making dumplings for like three hours at this point and was not standing around to boil and then fry them separately. If you're only cooking for one person, though, and not four, I can see where these would be a pretty easy (if time-consuming) meal. Might post the recipe if I can figure out how to scale it down, as it currently makes something like sixty dumplings.
Still haven't cracked open The Instructions yet, oops. What I really want to do is take another shot at Faire le Bon Choix: Comment notre cerveau prend ses dècisions, because a few posts by my friends recently have reminded me that oh right, I will lose my French if I don't practice it. I'm a total baby about practicing and I have no excuse because one of my best friends is francophone (Hi, C, if you're out there) but I hate making mistakes in my grammar and I frequently forget what gender nouns are. I can at least read still, though, even if my oral and written skills are shot. I hope I haven't lost my Spanish completely, I'd only had a couple years of lessons under my belt before I got sick...
I don't have any more news so here, have a picture of the shark toy dragonarya got my dog for Christmas. I have named him Mr. Sharkie. He says aaaaaaaaaaay.
Current Semi-Philosophical Question On My Mind: If time is change, then the superpower of 'stopping time': would it not be in fact just extreme, extreme speed? Though their perception of it might differ, they are in and of themselves creating change, and each movement will take and create 'time' perhaps only for themselves and whatever objects they interact with. For those who are not within their bubble of perception, however, it would appear as if time stopped and one person, say, moved objects, or themselves. So to have the superpoower of 'stopping time', would you not simply have to be so fast a person cannot percieve the changes you are causing, no matter the number? (ie. even if you make a million or a million and one changes, it will still not be percieved by any being) But of course that brings up the paradox of three changes taking longer to make than a million, and how can they appear the same to an outsider but still take relative amounts of time to the person with the superpower? Assuming that there is no point at which the changes become visible to the outside while the superpowered person is still causing more change. And of course, all of this being said with the understanding that even though time is 'stopped' for those on the outside, time is not stopped completely because it is still a force in action on the person with a superpower.
Also, on a completely different note, on an episode of the Big Bang Theory that I saw, Sheldon said that if teleoprtation ever became possible, it would necessitate breaking down and destroying the original article and creating an exact replica in the secondary location, but I disagree. One would simply need to break down the original article to a particular level and very quickly transport those particles to a secondary location, right? Like the one in Willy Wonka did by sending the particles through the air. I mean, it couldn't be through the air because then what would happen if the air in question was consumed, but it could be similar in principle, I think.
Aaaaanywho.