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Doubletree Signature Cookies
I don't have the stand mixer, but I will fake it.
½ pound butter, softened (2 sticks)
¾ cup + 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
¾ cup packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 ¼ cups flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Pinch cinnamon
2 2/3 cups Nestle ( Read more... ) -
Questions for an original character
Saw these on batyatoon's LJ, and I thought I'd answer them for Rob Nishikawa, just for my own amusement ( Read more... ) -
Absent friends (who never were actually here in the first place).
Roughly fifteen years ago, I found USENET. In particular, I found alt.callahans.
I've met a few of the people I saw there, but most of them are people who stayed on the other side of the screen.
Martin Gerster is one of the ones that I didn't meet - and will never meet.
To absent friends! -
Five rules for dating my daughter: Fiction in five paragraphs.
Rule 0: You don't want me involved. That is the worst-case scenario ( Read more... ) -
Filk. Filk never changes.
Apparently, some part of my brain only just left Conflikt this morning: I woke up from a dream that was random craziness until it ended with a fragment to the tune of Barrett's Privateers ( Read more... ) -
Boogeyman in the closet.
I just spent an hour or so trying to design a game based on the dream of its advertisement ( Read more... ) -
What a waste of time.
Yesterday, I got an e-mail saying I was being offered a job.
The problem? I'd never applied to that company.From there, it just got worse. They wanted me to give them a credit report, and they provided a link to a page that lacked any obvious pointers on how to get the credit report. The page in question was at one URL, but all the links out of ( Read more... ) -
Well, that explains a few things.
A New Yorker on the first political consulting firm.
Some parts that I found particularly notable:
“A wall goes up,” Whitaker warned, “when you try to make Mr. and Mrs. Average American Citizen work or think.”“Voters are basically lazy, basically uninterested in making an effort to understand what we’re talking about,” the Nixon adviser William ( Read more... ) -
Something that doesn't make sense:
I know a few people who are suspicious of the government, or the mainstream media, or other information sources.
Without exception, they are also prone to believing anything that supports their bias, regardless of the reliability of the source - and the sources they point at are usually as unreliable as can be.
How does this make any sense?