I keep accidentally ordering foods and forgetting to ask people to leave out the one small meat part that makes them alterable-to-be-vegetarian on the menu but not actually vegetarian. And then I gamely take a bite because hey, shouldn't waste food. And then I'm reminded again that meat is nowhere near as good as the memory of meat, including the ( Read more... )

Space your children far enough apart that when you wheel your baby's stroller up to the steps in the subway station, your little daughter is big enough and competent enough to smoothly pick the baby up out of the stroller and confidently carry them up the steps for you while you wrangle the folding stroller up just behind her. Or I guess you could ( Read more... )

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So I read World War Z, The Summer Prince, and The Fault in Our Stars in a short period of time. Lots of similarities among them, the kind you probably wouldn't notice if you didn't read them in close succession like that.

And now I'm wondering what it says about me as a person that I was moved but not crushed by the role of death in The Fault in ( Read more... )

If I keep going through ebooks at this rate, it's going to get pretty expensive pretty fast. Although at present I still haven't quite worked through the backlog of books I impulse-downloaded at Wiscon to make sure I would remember to read them.

Today's book was Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince, which is set in cyberpunk future Brazil and ( Read more... )

2015 DW friending meme is happening here, hosted by
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We're doing a roundsing at Wiscon at 10, probably in the hallway outside the art show unless that ends up being too crowded/annoying.

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Is Ingress more male-dominated out in the suburbs, or just these specific suburbs?

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View poll: Geography poll: please answer even if you have no clue

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Is this a thing? This should totally be a thing. Speaking for my household, we would eat so much more chocolate stuff if this were a thing. And then we would be happier.

A few minutes of internet-searching have turned up a cocoa powder which may or may not have reduced caffeine, a 2013 food science paper about decaffeinating cocoa powder, ( Read more... )