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A very late dinner.
Tonight I made The Slow-Cooker Burgundy Beef recipe from Coconut and Lime ( Read more... ) -
For everyone in Chicago, but especially Q.
I'm keeping this one public, partially in the hopes of driving Chicago traffic to the link ( Read more... ) -
Knives, anyone?
So, upon seeing the knives houdini_cs posted about, I admit I had to enter the giveaway.
I entered for the Fusionwood Chopper knife - in the peacock coloured handle.
If you haven't seen what I'm talking about, go here and read about honing your knives, or just skip to the end where you can enter to win some beautiful and fancy knives! -
Well, it would be me who would post this.
This might be the most horrifying sentence I've read in a news report in a long time, for the sheer "should be absurd"-ity of it.
"The children have been held since April on charges of promoting warlike activities."I showed the article to niap_si_efil, and he was surprised at first, until he realized the sentence had come from a news article on ( Read more... ) -
Firefox update
Seems to be working now, and I changed nothing. What weirdness. -
Firefox acting wonky
So, I need some suggestions from the tech-savvy crowd out there. After much futzing about with my computer and such, I have found that the reason I can't open e-mails in gmail is, apparently, Firefox. This was eventually figured out when I tried it in IE and found that everything worked just fine there ( Read more... ) -
Poll
Due to a disagreement between myself and a few others, it was suggested I post the following poll to LJ. So, please, tell me how you round.
Poll Short Poll: How do you round? -
On tea and eating local
I've been trying pretty hard over the course of the last year or so to start really eating local foods. To maintain this in my current life situation, I may have to become a lacto-ovovegetarian, and I don't know if I have that in me. I'll consider that in due course ( Read more... ) -
An aspect of comps I don't think I'll share with my fellow grads.
I was talking to my committee chair today, and she asked me what "grade" I got on comps. That certainly confused the heck out of me ( Read more... )