Back when I was in Law School, Missy and I got into a food rut, and we broke out of it with Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food (2d Ed.) Since Missy's become vegetarian, we kinda fell into another food rut, so she got me Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (2d Ed.)

In the last week, I made three meals out of nine recipes, ( Read more... )

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You or someone you know may already be a winner! Canadian citizen!

This past Friday, the Canadian government restored Canadian citizenship to thousands of people who lost Canadian citizenship when they became citizens of foreign countries up through the 1960's. Until that time, nationality worldwide laws disfavored dual-citizenship and had multiple ( Read more... )

Can I make all 102 before I retire?

Adams Alexander Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll Cass Champaign Christian Clark Clay Clinton Coles Cook Crawford Cumberland DeKalb DeWitt Douglas DuPage Edgar Edwards Effingham Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin Greene Grundy Hamilton Hancock Hardin Henderson Henry Iroquois Jackson ( Read more... )

It seriously depends on your crime as to how far police will go to obtain data from a hard disk.

• If, for instance, to kill no more than three people in cold blood. They won't even look.
• If, you have a few ounces of pot, the DEA will use the FBI forensics labs.
• If you have a history of violence and have beaten countless women, they won't even look.
• If ( Read more... )

So there's a furor on Slashdot, because a SC state senator submitted a bill to criminalize the use of profanity. The guy's tried this and failed each of the last six years. One of the comments pointed me to this gem of an IRC transcript.
*** Now talking in #christian
-Word_of_God- Welcome Abstruse to #christian I am a Bible Bot. For more info type ( Read more... )

¡Viva Gatitos!

So, when Harper prorogued Parliament, I figured there was more to it than delaying the inevitable. I think part of the reason NDP and the Bloc were willing to form a coalition with the Liberals was Stephane Dion. Imagine if, by sheer twist of fate, the Democrats went into the November election with Joe Lieberman as their candidate: His own party ( Read more... )

Since I can't share my Starbucks Chocolate's Vanilla Bean Truffles with all of you, I feel compelled to share the following instead.
Imagine a flower: A climbing orchid, to be exact; the one of some twenty thousand varieties that produces something edible...that its blooms must be pollinated either by hand or a small variety of Mexican bee, and ( Read more... )

Playing ball
Pigging out
Locked in the bathroom

Fraternity Super Bowl party or
Weaning kittens