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Kabocha Squash in Spiced Peanut Butter Sauce
I totally stole this idea from a dish made by a friend's mother. I was supposed to get the recipe, but never got that together. So I set out on a quest to concoct my own. This is version 2.0. :)
Kabocha Squash in Spiced Peanut Butter Sauce
1 smallish kabocha squash, seeded, peeled, and cut into 1" chunks
1 small onion, chopped
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Urgh. E. coli cultures have just been replaced in my book as third-worst-smell-ever by burnt hardboiled egg. (The first two, if you have to ask, are rotting corpse and paper mill, in that order.) Yes, I actually managed to burn a hardboiled egg, for the first time ever, and it ain't pretty let me tell you. I forgot the damned egg on the stove, in ( Read more... ) -
Excuse me while I tear up...
I never thought I would see this until current kindergartners grew up, if then. Obama won. We're currently listening to Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic speech, and I'm so emotional I can't put it into words; drinking champagne; crying as we listened to the "Yes We Can" video version of the campaign speech. I'll probably cry some more when Obama ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in library books
So I got a couple of email notices today from the Oakland Public Library, that two books I had requested were available for pick-up. Thing is, I didn't remember putting anything on hold. Don't even recognise the titles, or even the authors. In fact, one sounds like it's utter trash, it's called The First Desire, if you can believe it ( Read more... ) -
What I read today
I love tabbed browsing. I've got it set to open links in new tabs without interrupting my reading, so when I'm blog-browsing (or looking up stuff on Wikipedia, IMDb, &c...) I often click on every interesting link in sight, which then accumulate. This leads to two things: tons of tabs in a single browser window, which Firefox is now able to handle ( Read more... ) -
Pipetting, boys band style
Hilarious, if you've ever had to use a pipettor.
Boys band warning: do not watch if allergic. ;-P
http://www.eppendorf.com/int/hawkpopup.php?contentid=13
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Presidential match-up meme
Not much of a surprise here...
91% Mike Gravel
91% Dennis Kucinich
89% John Edwards
86% Barack Obama
85% Chris Dodd
80% Hillary Clinton
79% Joe Biden
76% Bill Richardson
38% Rudy Giuliani
29% John McCain
23% Mike Huckabee
22% Ron Paul
21% Mitt Romney
19% Tom Tancredo
12% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
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Goodies on their way
It's ridiculously early to get to work: 8:40. I didn't know I had it in me... lol
Anyway, the reason why I'm here at this impossible hour is that the liquid nitrogen shipment is due today, and they didn't tell me when to expect them. So I'm waiting. I would have hated to miss all the fun.
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Waiting
I'm at work, waiting for a PCR to wrap up so I can put the tubes in the freezer and not leave the thermal cycler on all weekend--it's not a problem for the DNA, but the energy consumption bothers me. It'll be done in about 15 minutes--it's one of the shorter programs, thank goodness.
I'll post a picture of the towhee later--see my comment on lepidopteralove's ( Read more... ) -
An old UFO
I've been itching to start about 5 new knitting projects, especially since gwensmom gave me so much of her unraveled-sweater yarn stash, but I promised myself I'd reduce the stash of UFOs first. Here's the one I'm working on now:
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