tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86370959150881615412024-03-13T12:07:33.738-05:00Irregular rants'Irregular rants' is a title that's doubly descriptive - irregular as in 'weird, peculiar, bloody odd' (but not eldritch), and irregular as in 'probably infrequent'. The subject matter is nothing more than eclectic - basically whatever happens to scurry out of the brain and into the keyboard.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-67396303233462224472019-12-21T14:07:00.001-06:002019-12-21T14:07:10.927-06:00The Dystopian Reality Of All Those "Inspirational" Stories - SOME MORE NEWS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fYOA8gXpios" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-34707853378232205462018-12-18T19:51:00.001-06:002018-12-18T19:51:59.239-06:00"I'm speaking with myself. Number one, because I have a very good brain."<br />
-DJ Trump (in a live interview with MSNBC)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-73597216517341058272018-05-09T11:27:00.001-05:002018-05-09T11:27:50.043-05:00cadmium<p dir="ltr">Sometimes you just get the urge to yep out "cadmium". Don't know why -</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-75522995781187147912017-12-18T14:58:00.001-06:002017-12-18T14:58:37.997-06:00Previously Unpublished from 5/4/16<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I think Mr. Nixon is an effective leader of his party. I hope he would grant me the same. The question before us is: which point of view and which party do we want to lead the United States? - John Kennedy, The First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate, September 26, 1960 </blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-21714219326168227462017-12-18T14:29:00.000-06:002017-12-18T14:29:07.400-06:00Star Trekin' - the Death and Sex EpisodeOk. That's a little dramatic, but hey, why not?<br />
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Or this (also from "the archive" because once you post something on the Internet, it's there for keeps) from an Etsy with no reviews later than 2011 but the link is below if you want to sign up for notification when <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/EveningArwen/reviews?ref=pagination&page=2" target="_blank">EveningArwin</a> will be back - but after six years, don't hold your breath. For all I know the below model/seamstress(?) is still in one of CBS/Paramount's black site detention centers for violating their copyright.)-<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-5346481589301482682016-04-19T23:28:00.001-05:002016-04-19T23:48:18.340-05:00Faxes? We don't need no stinkin' faxes!But sometimes you do. I posted about the free page of myfax.com at the <a href="http://www.exceletcetera.com/2016/04/19/fax-for-free-ter%E2%80%A6conditions-apply/" target="_blank">Excel, Etc. website</a>, including instructions and links to the page. Go over my many, many followers, and check it out.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-74099713660310629522016-03-16T23:01:00.000-05:002016-03-16T23:02:10.844-05:00Sherlock - "The Abominable Bride"; why reviews and viewer reactions as described in The Telegraph online are deplorable (How's that for a 19th c. title?)Following the New Years airing of the Sherlock Christmas special, articles appeared in The Telegraph online, entitled "Sherlock's suffragette 'mansplaining' irks Abominable Bride viewers" and "Sherlock's 'mansplaining' wasn't the worst thing about The Abominable Bride". The latter doesn't need to have it pointed out that it came after the former - the article merely feeds on the general theme of the first - in effect, it just piles on in a TV critic form of one more kid jumping on top of a playground dog pile. It can be dismissed as both vacuous and pitiable. The only item of note is the poll question at the bottom of the page which asks "Was the suffragette in Sherlock a good idea?", for which the responses were "Yes, it's brilliant to have women's rights portrayed on TV" and "No, it was badly done", sadly and unsurprisingly, neither of these sentences actually pertain to the episode, but I include it to illustrate how idiotic this presentation was and will leave it at that.<br />
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The first article we'll take a look at. Dismissing the first paragraph as a lead in, the second quotes Reddit users who support the slant of the article. How many did or didn't, it doesn't say.<br />
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The third, forth, and fifth paragraphs are just a recap of the story having to do with the suffragettes in question. While the sixth, as quoted here in full -<br />
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First, Doctor Who? if you've been watching any DW involving Amy Pond or Clara Osward then you know that the character of Amy has been a huge part of any arc that she's been in and to say that of Clara is just ridiculous - she was in the fore and became the pivot of the last arcs before Jenna Coleman left the series. While Sherlock is centered around Sherlock Holmes - <i>and he is indeed male (*</i>newsflash<i>*). </i><br />
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"Well Of Course It Was!" I want to yell. Why? <i><u>It's happening in Sherlock's mind</u>. I mean, what the hell do you expect?? </i>Even if you aren't a fan of the original stories, "Sherlock" has made reference to the fact that Sherlock doesn't have any information about anything other that what is pertinent to crime solving:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Philosophy.—Nil.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Astronomy.—Nil.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Politics.—Feeble.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Botany.—Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Chemistry.—Profound.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Anatomy.—Accurate, but unsystematic.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;"> Sensational Literature.—Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;">Plays the violin well.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.7px; font-style: italic;">Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.</span></li>
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This translates in the series to the fact that Sherlock doesn't keep track of anything that he can't use in the solving crime (cf."The Great Game" where it is mentioned - more than once - that Sherlock doesn't know that the earth revolves around the sun - and then again his lack of astronomical knowledge is highlighted near the end, albeit in a strangled sort of way).<br />
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This lack of - to him - "unnecessary" information surely includes general history, It's a safe bet that this would include the history of the suffragette movement.<br />
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So. By saying the episode was historically inaccurate, what you're saying is that in a scene in an episode which takes place in the mind of Sherlock Holmes - someone who we can safely assume that that doesn't know anything about history that doesn't bear on the process of crime solving (certainly including the history of women's franchise) - is historically inaccurate...<br />
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Well, of course they didn't. But we're talking about a drug-fueled dream of Sherlock's, where the suffragettes are merely a backdrop for Emelia Ricoletti - the thing that provides context to Ricoletti's death. What does Sherlock know about secret societies in the nineteenth century? Enough to know that they would sometimes send a message using pips ("Some secret societies used to send dried melon seeds. Orange pips. Things like that." <i>(The Great Game)</i>) as a warning. Other than that? One would reasonably posit, "Not much". Certainly not the style of hat someone from history preferred who wasn't a mass poisoner.<br />
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The other thing wrong with this is that they are *not* wearing KKK hoods. If Sherlock knows about secret societies to know that sometimes they would use orange pips for message sending, it seems like he'd know enough about the Klan from researching secret/hooded/anonymous groups to pick up on the fact the rank and file wear white robes. Since the rank and file suffragettes attending the meeting were wearing robes in other-colors-besides-white, it seems unreasonable to equate their costuming with Klan robes.<br />
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(The tweets in question mentioned specifically KKK suits, hoods, or hats. I had subsequently messaged the tweeters with a link to a page featuring the penitents' hoods, the <i>capirotes</i>. Two of which responded with 'we know the difference between the one and the other and the reference in the episode was to the pips which was from the KKK' in the original story. I then pointed out that these specific hoods weren't Klan hoods (the Klan being alive and well - not to mention familiar - in the American South and on the Internet, cf. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/14/florid-police-kkk/12645555/">the article in USA Today from 2014 about two Florida cops being fired when their Klan affiliation was discovered</a> also the <a href="http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/m/state-of-white-supremacy-in-the-united-states/#.VuoolPkrJhE" target="_blank">ADL website</a>) and asked why they specifically linked the costumes to the klan. Neither of these tweeters have responded as of this writing.)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-80370611326976935762016-03-15T13:02:00.000-05:002016-03-16T23:02:48.827-05:00Bound (Enterprise S04E17)I'm currently watching <i>Enterprise</i> on Netflix - I never watched all of them when they were on the air. I finally hit "Bound" (the Orion slave girl episode). Unfortunately, after watching this:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-6852127378089810082015-10-30T21:17:00.000-05:002015-10-31T16:36:02.157-05:00More "On Daria"Two things:<br />
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JAKE: You know the peanut really is a second class nut. Now cashews - those are what the big guys eat. The CEOs.<br />
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Also this from BuzzFeed: <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryancreed/this-is-what-the-voices-of-daria-are-doing-now#.llYl9Rdjd" target="_blank">This Is What The Cast Of “Daria” Looks Like Now</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-69154343659185970812015-10-21T11:06:00.000-05:002015-10-21T11:06:12.367-05:00The Bottle ImpListening to an adaptation of "The Bottle Imp" by "Favorite Story" from 28 October 1947 via RelicRadio.com. Basically, there's a wish granting imp in a bottle, if you buy it, you have to sell it on for less than you bought it for and if you sell it for more, the bottle comes back to you - and - here's the catch - if you have it when you die, you're consigned to Hell. The Wikipedia article about the Robert Louis Stevenson story (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Imp" target="_blank">here</a>) states that there are a number of resolutions to 'The Bottle Paradox' exists, one of which is employed in the ending of the story. But - what if - working in the framework of the story (i.e. believing that imps and Hell and bottles exist) can't you just wish yourself to go to Heaven when you die? Doesn't that break the paradox too?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-18781900540899393712015-10-20T01:32:00.001-05:002015-10-20T01:32:39.823-05:00TragedyI was watching "Robin Williams Remembered" on Netflix. At one point Pam Dawber corrected herself from "...that's the was he is." to "he was". That's tragedy. Right there. A good working definition of tragedy in that one little verb tense.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-76452844085156170912015-10-05T15:10:00.002-05:002015-10-05T15:11:09.489-05:00Using my Kindle Fire as a drawing tablet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I was wondering how to freehand some drawings and have them end up on my computer without having to sketch and scan. So far what I've come up with is using my Kindle Fire HD 7 with a couple of apps to first draw and then directly transfer the file from one to the other over the wireless connection.</div>
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Those two apps are Inkboard by Doodle.ly, Inc. for drawing, and ES File Explorer by ES Mobile for the file transfers. Inkboard is a straight forward drawing program that lets you start with either a Blank Canvas, to Select a Photo, or to take an image from the Camera, and a variety of crayons, markers, pencils, pens, and highliters to sketch with and to mark up existing images. However, its very basic - no changing sizes of nib, only a limited zoom. It's a tool for just the basics after all - there are more sophisticated tools - but, hey, this is just proof of concept.</div>
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ES File Explorer will let you not only browse the files on the Kindle, but it also lets you connect to Web, and it comes with a list of Favorites to file locations on the Kindle (handy). </div>
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And it also lets you connect with network locations and it provides a simple FTP host that you can connect to from a web browser from your computer. Once you select Remote Manager from the menu and click the Turn On button, you can browse to the ftp site listed on ES'es screen.</div>
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... and a quick right-click and Save As... to get it to my computer.</div>
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After much fruitless Internet searching. I started looking at the options for each file in the iTunes window (a lot of right clicking was involved). Finally I clicked the "Check Selection" on the context menu for all the files in my playlist and Bingo!<br />
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Essentially, you can select a bunch of files, right click on one of them, and then create a playlist on the fly with your selection. But once you create a playlist with non-music files, playback stops after each file - unless - you specifically tell it that you want them all to play. I wanna know: who at Apple decided that.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-42581416759329047262015-09-26T22:05:00.000-05:002015-09-28T13:03:35.931-05:00The Wisdom of Amber Benson"You never really finish what you start in this world. Life's like some big ass jigsaw puzzle that you don't have the box to, so that every piece you add changes the context of the picture 'til you forget that you were ever looking for a particular thing in the first place." - Chance (Amber Benson), "Chance" (2002 - winner Audience Choice Award, Birmingham Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282410/" target="_blank">IMBD.com</a>))<br />
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That reminded me of a similar joke(?) that I fell for in the house we're renting now. In the room that is the office, coming out of one wall there was a length of coax cable. Didn't think anything of it when we moved in - there were a number of inconvenient cable drops coming out of the floors where cable was ran in the past. Only those were drilled through the floor and this one, as I said was in the wall. Coming through a hole. Mind you this wasn't cable sized or coming out of a box. It looked like someone had hit the wall with a hammer, cleaned the edges of the hole, and then painted the wall - with a terminated length of seemingly cable box ready coax sticking out of the hole. </div>
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So. We checked with our landlord to see if it was jake for me to clean out the hole and terminate it properly with an extra data connection, as that room was going to be our office and that's where I was going to put our DSL modem. He was okay with it so off to Lowe's I went.</div>
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Don't wait until the messages start coming in - it will only process <i>incoming</i> email. If you already have email from the person (or persons) that you're creating a filter for, Gmail won't label them if they're already in your Inbox. If you wish to label already received email, you can drag them from your Inbox to your label on the left pane of your window:<br />
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One more thing- If you want to get rid of a label, hover over your label in the left navigation pane in your window, click the dropdown arrow and choose "Remove label". When you do this, it changes the filter that you created - it removes the label option, but doesn't change anything else. For example, if you set up a filter to label, star, and mark as important; then remove the label, it will still star and mark incoming email - it just won't label it because you remove the label it was using. Do do that, you have to go back to the Filters menu and delete it there.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-80502627223355435522014-11-16T21:22:00.000-06:002015-08-16T21:49:16.538-05:00The futility that is life (Drying is Hell) (Updated)Ok. I stole that last parenthetical bit from Groening.<br />
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So, I move a washer and dryer from the old house, in the back of my Pilot. Unload them and put them in to their alcove. Laundering starts. And then (of course) the dryer fails to heat.<br />
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When I opened the top of the dryer and hit Start, I notice the heating elements aren't turning orange. Hoping it's the top thermocouple - and since it's the only one I can reach, I run a meter on it - and (also, of course) it tests normal. In order to check the other one - and to see what I might have knocked loose during the move, the dryer will have to be pulled out of the alcove.<br />
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But, there's this one problem.<br />
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The opening is off center and the wall that comes out on the dryer side is wider than the wall that comes out on the washer side. The upshot is that after all this - everything will have to be unhooked and the washer moved out of the way in order to pull they clothes dryer out far enough to open up the back.<br />
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And the faucet on the hot water side leaks. Only a little, but of course it does.<br />
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It's just a pain in the butt all the way round. And so, I thought I'd share.<br />
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Look. If you're designing spaces or furniture or cabinets or whatever - things will have to be tweaked. The backs of things will have to be accessed! Flush mounts are slick and all but eventually you'll have to check the cords in back. That's all I'm saying.<br />
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Update (sometime later)<br />
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What eventually ended up fixing it - after all that, in case you were wondering - was an electrical breaker.<br />
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The short version:<br />
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<ul>
<li>The thermocouples checked out. </li>
<li>Found online that a possible cause was the timer/controller module. It was a bit twitchy anyway and I thought that it had finally gone. I pulled the part and looked up and ordered a replacement online. This was great - but it didn't make the dryer heat.</li>
<li>After more research, I found out that a dryer can run but not heat if one of the legs of the 220v outlet was bad (and the other was still good). Tested *that* and that turned out to be the underlying problem. Replaced the breaker and all is well.</li>
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The moral of the story is don't take anything for granted. I assumed that the outlet worked so I went to a lot of trouble without going through a full set of tests to assess the <i>environment</i> and the equipment. There was a flight mechanics (?) motto I ran across a dog's age ago: <i>In God we trust. Everything else we check.</i> A shame I forgot that in this instance.<br />
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More (yet later still)<br />
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In case you're wondering about the techie stuff (I'm reminded about Heinlein's ballistics chapter...), here are two videos by some people:<br />
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Thermostats<br />
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<li><i><a href="https://youtu.be/WJB8Y2tjYks" target="_blank">Whirlpool / Kenmore Dryer Heater and Thermostat Test</a> </i>by Bill Newberry, an appliance guy and, guessing by his t-shirt, a Marine veteran. If I had watched this before I'd gotten started...</li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/WJB8Y2tjYks" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Dryer Isn’t Heating? High-Limit Thermostat Test – Dryer Repair</a> by an outfit called RepairClinic.com. It's a better how-to on multimeters because it shows you both digital and analogue meters and exactly how to use them to test dryer (or whatever's) thermostats, where Newberry's gives more information about the dryer itself.</li>
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Electrical panel<br />
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<li><i><a href="https://youtu.be/EC0i1uLK9uI" target="_blank">Checking for a Bad Breaker</a> </i>by TheElectricalDoctor, with some very dramatic bed music.</li>
<li><i><a href="https://youtu.be/MRmPymLyEMk" target="_blank">How to Change a Breaker</a></i> also by TheElectricalDoctor, with similarly dramatic bed music.</li>
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If you want to fix anything, check YouTube first. Also - please don't electrocute yourself.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-53338528474605993452014-09-13T21:00:00.001-05:002015-09-08T15:34:42.121-05:00Howlhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179381
How long has this been on the bucket list?
I don't even have a bucket list and its on mine.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-79774020759265456102014-05-19T00:08:00.000-05:002014-05-19T00:13:25.805-05:00ScamI got this in my NSU email account:<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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Of course it's a complete scam. I haven't been posting any of my grades online, and for the school to do so is strictly verboten... so how would they know about my "academic achievements" from Adam's?<br />
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Scamsters!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07754658673298413377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637095915088161541.post-74253432062886250052014-03-03T13:33:00.001-06:002014-03-03T13:33:41.647-06:00Sausage ballsSo, sausage balls (sounds like an expletive, I know but, <i>literally</i>: sausage balls)<br />
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Another easy thing to do - as I found out last night. If you look up a recipe for this, basically what you find is mix ground sausage with Bisquick and cheese, ball, and bake. Nice, simple, and easy. Then you look up a second recipe and the ratios are different. Here's what we used:<br />
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1 pound (a tube) of breakfast sausage (minus two patty's worth that got consumed for breakfast earlier the same day)<br />
2-1/2 cups of Bisquick<br />
1 cup of sharp cheddar shredded<br />
Onion powder, because it was there<br />
Cajun blackened seasoning, because... hey, why not?<br />
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In recipe-speak, the next step is "Combine ingredients", but really that's an understatement. Mix the Bisquick, the cheese, and all in one bowl and dump the sausage in to another bowl. Add a handful of dry mix into the sausage about an handful at a time and work it into the sausage, like you were kneeding dough. I don't know if a mixer with dough hooks could be used - I don't have one - but be prepared to put some work into mixing the stuff. Use your hands.<br />
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After all is said and done, you come out with a ball of mix that kind of resembles pie crust dough both in texture and in feel - the fat in the sausage mix isn't any greasier than the shortening in pie dough - to me, anyway. Next thing is turn on the oven to 375, spray a baking sheet with Pam, and then ball the mess a chunk at a time until you have row after row of English walnut-sized balls.<br />
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Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.<br />
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What comes out of the oven is like a hybrid between a cheese biscuit and a bite of sausage. They are unbelievably good right off of the baking sheet. Not a bit oily - which is kind of surprising, since they have so much sausage and cheese in them. I haven't tried them with any kind of sauce. The <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/sausage-balls-recipe.html" target="_blank">Paula Deen recipe on foodnetwork.com</a> comes with a suggestion of mixing a cup of mayo with a tablespoon of mustard, but as I don't like mayonnaise that much, that kinda sounds gross to me. I'd just go with mustard - if I had to pick - just the same as I would use on any sausage roll that I'd get for breakfast.<br />
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I wonder what they'd taste like with syrup...<br />
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