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Esther: [tasting neck] Ack! You taste greasy!
Jason: [glum] I had to make gefilte fish today.
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Today's new york times mistyped 'the Large Hadron Collider' as 'the Large Hardon Collider'. Page A10, bottom 2nd column.

Btw, it was totally snowing today and starting to stick in my hood.
Apparently we just beat the record for latest winter/spring snowfall, previous record was March 10, 1951.

KATU Meteorologist Rhonda Shleby said that the snow level will actually drop to 500 feet during the day Friday as colder air behind a front moving through the area begins to ( Read more... )

Happy Easter! My friends are en route for brunch with Bloody Mary fixuns and I'm poaching eggs, frying leftover polenta and simmering leftover tomato sauce (I think it's a ragu, there appears to be lamb in it), and there's a fresh french press of delicious Seattle Lighthouse coffee on (thanks C!!) with a frothy mocha colored crema. Nina Simone's on ( Read more... )

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Because Jason popped this CD in, I was just inspired to do a little Eric Dolphy research online. I knew he died young and tragically, but I didn't realize how tragic and untimely the cirumstances of his death (at age 36!!) were; Wikipedia claims:

The liner notes to the Complete Prestige Recordings say that on June 28, 1964 Dolphy "collapsed in his ( Read more... )

Me and Jasno registered for tickets to see Barack Obama Friday! I still haven't decided between him and Hillary (apparently that falls right in line with the Democratic party as a whole). I lean towards Clinton, Jasno leans towards Obama. So much for my "I'd register as Independent but I want to be able to vote in the primary" position. I'm not ( Read more... )

I'm doing a presentation about Family for my Swahili class. When I looked up 'husband' on the Kamusi Project, I found this verb listed: -china, "fail to find a husband at the proper age". When I looked up -china, it also has the following definitions ( Read more... )