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Today's successful experiment
pasta (cheese-filled tortellini are excellent here)
an eggplant (6-8 inches, if not home-grown then salt the dice for half an hour, rinse, drain)
Aidells sun-dried tomato with mozzarella smoked chicken/turkey sausage (or, y'know, what you have handy ( Read more... ) -
"Unread" books
From redcat9.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Meme directions: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't/didn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ( ( Read more... ) -
Slightly sunburned
Went to the National Book Festival on Saturday and inexplicably failed to realize it was still summer. Oops. I at least managed to toast myself relatively evenly, so I'm just slightly pink. Worth it to hear Terry Pratchett again and to hear and have a book signed by Holly Black (blackholly). Plus I got to meet some LibraryThing people, picked up a free ( Read more... ) -
Lease!
Back to DC at the end of the month, and we have a place for the truck to come to! A grand advance. -
Interesting article
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll - New York Magazine
(Also, W2 errors are annoying.) -
Leftovers
Someone's setting off a last few fireworks several blocks away. It's not dark yet so they're hard to see, just brief glitter confetti on the pink-and-gold sky. I keep thinking the show's over and then hearing the next one start whistling. -
Book meme
dr_whom's fault. "Pick ten of your favorite novels, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbably Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each novel, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are." I suspect I'm obscure enough (both in who reads this and in what I read) not to bother, but one ID per ( Read more... )
