When people stay "steamed rice," do they actually mean the rice is cooked with steam and not in water?

If the rice is immersed in water when it's cooking (in a pot or an electric rice cooker or whatever), shouldn't that be called "boiled rice"?

I make rice almost every day, but this I do not know.

p.s. healthy tip: put in some brown rice in your ( Read more... )

Math-like riddle time!Three women go into a hotel and ask for a room to share. The receptionist tells them it will cost 30,000 yen, so the women pay 10,000 yen each ( Read more... )

My aunt gave me one of those tiny 2nd gen (?) ipod shuffles a couple years ago (I think she got it for free from signing up for something). At the time I fiddled with the software a bit, tried to make it into a drag-and-drop device (because there's no way I'm going to use itunes for a 1GB player), but I never succeeded. Then I got really busy and ( Read more... )

Hello
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http://gizmodo.com/5105938/obsessively-detailed-wall+e-bento-art-is-way-too-perfect-to-eat

I worry.

Hm, I should go see Wall-E.

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So like everyone else is doing it. Unecessarily long and rambly answers ahoy! I like procrastinating.

The Fanfiction Writer's Meme

How about a brief introduction?
I'm Flonnebonne and I am an alcoholic. No wait, I am Flonnebonne and I don't drink at all. Because fanfic is my anti-drug. Also I don't like alcohol.
I was once primarily known by the name ( Read more... )

The Baka no Itte, from the wonderful folks at Sensei's Library.

Eroge, or erotic games, are, well, they're things. Erotic things. Sometimes very odd erotic things, like the game that koramay  and cienna showed me at the Tokyo Game Show that measured your ability to wipe sweat off a naked moaning guy with the DS stylus. Er, anyway, to get to the point-- ( Read more... )

http://thespacesurf.com/

This site lets you bypass your workplace's firewall so you can access blocked websites! Yay! LJ at work! Google Images! Yay! Porn porn porn! Yay! *cough* Just kidding on that last one.

Calvin! Calvin! Your parents don't believe. We have to kill them!

This makes me die a little inside, but I can't help laughing at the same time.