Key Lime Cake:
1 cup Butter Flavored Crisco
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon lemon or lime zest
3 cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
6 eggs, room temperature
12 ounces cake flour (3 cups)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup bottled key lime juice

Key Lime Booster:
1 tablespoon key lime juice
3 ( Read more... )

"Hello from Amazon.com. We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on May 21 2010: Daniel Abraham "Leviathan Wept and Other Stories" Estimated arrival date: July 22 2010 - September 30 2010" Huh.

My new phone has an lj app.

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Finished The Price of Spring yesterday and I have to say that it's the most satisfying concluding volume of a series I've ever read. Not just that the ending is a great ending, but that every chapter is wonderful and every page enjoyable. I've selecting a cyberpunk novel to read next because I can't imagine anything in a remotely similar genre not ( Read more... )

Found a new lj to read. bram452.livejournal.com/

Currently sitting in a hotel lobby chatting with the inlaws.

If my posts are going to be this short and lacking in content, I may as well be using twitter instead.

I suggested to a faculty member today that there should be a class in the Engineering Management curriculum dedicated to understanding how to deal with bureaucracy in large organizations as that’s the worst part of any of our projects. On the way home, Bill and I were discussing this ‘Bureaucracy In Action’ elective and I think we’ve got a pretty ( Read more... )

For those of you who were disappointing to see that Riblet's last note to me was just a simple fondue recipe, she left me another helpful not this morning:

"Don't forget the creamer, you stupid bitch."

That's more like it.

This post contains spoiler for (and if you don't know this from the title, you probably don't need the warning) BSG.

( Why do we even still watch this? )

Last Friday evening, Bill and I went to a Bourbon tasting hosted by a rep from Knob Creek at a local, upscale restaurant here. Bill had read the emails about the event in detail and was expecting an education in Bourbon. I had skimmed the emails and was expecting to get to drink Bourbon and eat a few appetizers at one of the best restaurant in the ( Read more... )

If I have learned anything from the first disc of the second season of Errol Morris' First Person, it's that people with really high IQ's grow up to be bouncers. Two separate episodes feature guys with IQ's over 190 with that job. We watched them out of order. One guy spent the interview trying to structure the argument that smart people make ( Read more... )