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News flash - self righteous people may actually be jerks
I want to archive this article. I need to check out the studies it cites - I'm trying to get better about that - but this kind of instinctive moral justification for behavior, for good or ill, is something I've noticed without quantifying. I'm curious to see the statistics that might back up my observations. Considering the number of people who ( Read more... ) -
Sing-off! Whoot!!
I'm finally getting a chance to listen to the new season of Sing-Off (I didn't hear last year's because I flat forgot).
Oh. My. God!!!
Okay, granted I'm an a cappella-holic. And I don't have a lot to say right now - I'm just watching ep. 1, we're only through the first 6-7 groups of ten - I just got taken because we've gone through both Motown ( Read more... ) -
experiments in cooking
Last night was a visit to a new (to us) Indian restaurant. Quite tasty! I even managed to get past my cilantro thing and find a truly Yum! dish. I find that I'm not a huge fan of minced lamb as the Indians prepare it - don't hate it, just not a huge fan. On the other hand, I can eat vegetarian quite cheerfully. I'm a *huge* fan of the 'cottage' ( Read more... ) -
If I Twittered, these'd be Tweets...
...but I don't, so this is a bunch of random notes that I can look back at and say, "Oh yeah, *that's* when that happened." I wouldn't bother reading this if I were you :D
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experiments in squash
Honey Bear squash FTW. Figuring I better do something with yon squash before it did something evil, like rot, I took some advice gathered Saturday evening and nuked the sucker a minute so I could get the knife through (unevenly, as usual). The online recipes all claim that cooking squash takes an hour or more; after last night I'm inclined to ( Read more... ) -
Robin Hood - part 1
This isn't what I intended to write first but... I went and pulled my first Robin Hood book off the shelf. If I had to do one of those 'if you could only take one thing from a burning house' types of quizzes, this book would be remarkably high on the list (assuming the cat and flechyr could handle themselves). Mine is a 1963 Golden Illustrated Classic, " ( Read more... ) -
Baah! I haven't memed in a while
Fairly accurate, in a lot of respects. Although with quizzes, one has to remember that how we present ourselves, even to an impersonal web site, is not always how we *really* are. Self delusion is still in effect :)
Your result for The Golden Compass Daemon Test...
Quiet Loner Soul
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Addiction, the rethink
Been thinking a bit about what I posted the other day. For one thing I think I implied more than I meant to. Go figure :/ On the other hand, there's a certain interest I have in figuring out just what makes me tick. I can't say I'm always honest with myself - who among us is all the time? - but sometimes a bit of introspection is fun. Sort of like ( Read more... ) -
cross-posting
Yeah, obligatory soothing hand gestures and such go here. What I post on LJ, I mostly leave open to the public simply because I'm sure that no one but my friends really care to read this, and even if there's some wierdo out there cruising my journal (hah!!), so long as they don't spam my comments I totally don't care. It's just the little bit of ( Read more... ) -
I'm an addict
So I got slapped upside the head with one of my guilty little secrets the other day. And by that, I really mean that I'd forgotten this tidbit of brain chemistry that makes me go 'Mmmmmm',( think before you click; this is *my* brain we're talking about! )