If you don't read my other blog, you might want to check out my post on the rapidly-spreading food-carbonation phenomenon. Well, perhaps "rapidly" is a bit generous.

More changes soon, as ever . . .

Yes, I haven't posted in umpteen months. Fear not; I'm alive and well. I also have come across an episode of LJ-based memetic propagation that has piqued my curiosity . . .

If you read this, even if I don't speak to you often, you must post a memory of me. It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened ( Read more... )

Following up on my last entry: Do you have any idea how hard it is to find ricotta in Minneapolis on short notice? Practically impossible, it turns out. Rainbow didn't have any, Whole Foods' only offering was labeled "Lemon Ricotta," which didn't sound right at all, and Lunds only had aged ricotta, as hard as mozzarella ( Read more... )

Marie and I decided we'd make saag paneer tonight. Since the paneer recipe I had called for it to set up overnight, I made it ahead of time. I didn't get as much curd out of the milk as I thought I would, but I wasn't terribly discouraged about that. The discouraging part came when I deep-fried it; the results are shown below:

( Paneer of 3vil )

To misquote Beefhoven: ROBOT! GET OFF OF MY CAMPUS!

All right! After some consideration and calculation, I have arrived at a date that will work for ketiya, miss internetsdave's birthday, miss tantlus's SFD 4, and as a nice side effect, affords U students an opportunity to celebrate the end of finals.

That date is Friday, 14 May. Mark your calendars ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to hold a three-degree party for a while. (That's degrees in the Friendster sense, not in the cosmic background radiation sense.) The idea would be to invite friends who would invite friends who would invite friends, and getting groups of people who might not know each other to meet. I was looking at May 1st, but that doesn't work ( Read more... )

(Title inspired by loveschak, who swiped it from the Bloodhound Gang.)

From the Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Journal, 9 September 1891:
[I]t is the business of the man with the sawed-off shotgun not to let [the robber] get the drop, but to blaze away as soon as he shows up. The gun is sawed off for the greater convenience of the messenger in potting road ( Read more... )

So a few months ago, I decided to dye my hair. Having done some research on chemical hair dyes and having learned that they're rather nasty, I decided to use henna. The results were excellent. Nearly everybody thinks it's natural, and I've gotten quite a few compliments on it.

However, I didn't bank on 16-year-old American Idol singing wunderkind ( Read more... )

Of course, fifteen months later, I notice that I marked that entry private and that nobody could see it. I am very special.

However, I intend to start using this LJ more . . . I was trying to be all indie with engelbot.com and that kind of thing, but the attraction of LJ's value-added features has overcome my g33k pr1d3 ( Read more... )