Shad roe is really good. Absolutely bizarre, but good. I don't have the language to describe it. A consistancy somewhere between liver and cornbread. And almost but not quite entirely unlike fish. I ended up eating it very slowly: there's just a lot of flavor in it. It isn't pungent or spicy, just full.
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09:55:10 PM,
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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Why only tropical volcanos cause global cooling.
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03:13:54 PM,
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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The speakers that come with the computer I bought 14 years ago are much, much better than the ones I bought 2 years ago. As things became easier to produce, cheaper and better, they also become more cheaply made. This is very obvious with cars, but also computers.
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03:13:48 PM,
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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musical snippets from the upcoming Coraline musical.
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02:22:14 PM,
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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Heavens Above is a website that, among other things, can tell you when and where to see the International Space Station. The link is for Sunday night, from here, when it'll be the brightest star in the sky. The thing goes around nearly 16 times a day, so it's often visible fairly soon after sunset. (it isn't visible once it's eclipsed) It looks like the shuttle will no longer be docked be gone by then, but still, I've never seen a satellite and known what it was.
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01:45:56 PM,
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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Am going to try cycling to work, despite respiratory difficulties. May be stupid.
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08:13:18 AM,
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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I remember when I first started here 8 years ago, I would check my office mailbox fairly regularly, there was a trickle of things distributed that way. That seems to have dried up completely since, I don't think I've received paper anything since I came back.
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01:57:56 PM,
Tuesday 24 March 2009
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The history of the Toledo War, or why the western upper peninsula isn't part of Wisconsin. I had no idea that Ohio-Michigan mutual dislike had such history to it.
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11:17:06 AM,
Tuesday 24 March 2009
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What is the correct color for pushpins?
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11:16:49 AM,
Tuesday 24 March 2009
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Whales, philosophers, fountains: what are things that spout?
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10:45:39 PM,
Monday 23 March 2009
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When I discovered the dishwasher didn't have a cutlery basket, I was okay with paying $35 dollars for one. After all, I needed a cutlery basket. But now it seems like it needs a intake valve. Or, at least, water isn't getting to it, the shut-off valve is open, and the float switch makes clicking noises when I poke it. My investigations so far have proceeded to the point of finding said valve, hitting it with a screwdriver on general principles, and finding that a replacement part would cost $50. I am for some reason far more likely to buy a new dishwasher for a broken valve than a missing basket, even though the price is similar, and it's just as wasteful. I suppose the difference is that I can be fairly sure that a new basket will fix the lack of basket issue, while a new valve may just lead to a broken dishwasher with a questionably installed intake valve, much as my toilet adventure has lead to a toilet that leaks, perhaps more slowly, and has a overflow tubey thing less than the ideal length for the tank. My greatest victory so far has been putting a 5 gallon bucket under the drippy shut-off valve for the washing machine, which entirely solved the problem of it dripping on the floor. Great things, 5 gallon buckets.
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07:33:54 PM,
Monday 23 March 2009
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The very disappointing things about live webcams of volcanos is that they tend to be destroyed when said volcanos erupt. It really does seem the internet is entirely without pictures of the Mt. Redoubt eruption in Alaska last night.
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04:02:06 PM,
Monday 23 March 2009
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