I spent some time in the kitchen with the new mixer today. The bread recipe I've been working on lately turned out way better using the KitchenAid vs. the bread machine. The texture is completely different, which I attribute to better mixing, and the loaf was much taller, which I attribute to using a longer rise time and properly forming the loaf ( Read more... )

Not a new idea by any means, but I believe that newspapers and tv news are actually hurt more than helped by the idea that they need to have more fluff and entertainment to keep people interested. Personally, I'm pissed that the ongoing crisis in Gaza was on page six of the Tribune today, with the front page dominated by theories about a possible ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that someday while I'm riding my bike on the narrow two-lane roads near where I live, some asshole doing 15mph over the limit is going to come flying around a blind curve and kill me. But if it happens after 1/1/2008, among other laws they will have broken will be a brand new law that requires motor vehicles to leave at least 3 feet ( Read more... )

Does anyone know if another Batman movie is being filmed? In Chicago? Yesterday I saw a film crew shooting a scene in the Loop. A "Gotham City Police" SWAT team was pouring into a building on LaSalle or Wells Street. An equipment truck on the next street over had a cardboard sign in back that said, "Will work for film, seriously."

Yesterday I read about a study that showed that preschool children are already so brainwashed that given the same food in a plain wrapper and a McDonald's wrapper, they think the food in the McDonald's wrapper tastes better. Then today I read about a hospital system in Indiana that plans to deduct pay from it's employees if they're overweight or ( Read more... )