Turkey undercooked (even though the meat thermometer read fine!). Second attempt at rolls also failed to rise. Sous-chef nauseous, has been unable to help out, will likely not eat. Personal Christmas joy: fading.

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Turkey went in without a problem. Stuffing prepared to be baked (using rendered turkey fat and turkey giblets). Potatoes boiling. Rolls, however, possibly going to have to be written off; dough seems not to be rising, and proofing a second package of yeast suggests that it, too, is dead.

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Last year, I was with my brother-in-law's family in Minnesota, and the culture shock was pretty severe. This year, I'm with my parents-in-law in Alabama, where, surprisingly perhaps, the culture shock is not so extreme-Boston-to-Alabama is, perhaps, but in terms of the church service, Methodists are a lot more familiar than evangelicals. (I did ( Read more... )

My times continue to be interesting, all around. So instead of commenting on them at all, I link you this image.

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Today's spam:Your Mailbox Is Almost Full "CLICK HERE <[unlikely link].ua>" To Update Your Mailbox And Receive New Massage.
On the one hand, who do they think is going to fall for that? No one who's responsible for my mailbox is going to write something that incoherent and ungrammatical, or send me to a website in Ukraine.

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I mentioned to a few people, last night, an interview that Keith Olbermann did with 84-year-old Dorli Rainey, who was pepper-sprayed in Seattle. (That link goes to a photo that the Guardian calls "a powerful image of martyrdom".)

I therefore link it for y'all here, because it's so very much worth watching:

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This column in the Ann Arbor Chronicle offers a really nice insight into people vs. corporations at a personal level, its point very much being that the personal level is all there is. Worth reading.

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So my wife and I have been watching Once Upon a Time, a new ABC show. I pretty much never watch anything on the networks (if you're following a show on a basic cable network, and you miss an episode, it'll be back repeatedly over the next week; with the networks, you have to actually remember to watch), but I have to admit I'm getting pretty ( Read more... )

My brother, with his incredibly unfortunate photo, tweeted a link to this article about Joe Paterno. My wife and I have talked about the scandal enough this week that I'm not going to do so any further here; but my brother is right (as he is more often than you'd expect, but especially about sports) that it's an article worth reading.

( linguistic aside about a sentence from the article )

I think I'm starting to reset the fact that, when I do a Google Image Search, the first page of hits are taken from Google+. In fact, this happens when I'm searching on a name, even though most of the photos it shows me are people in the circle of that person on Google+, and not the people themselves. It's as if they're somehow overriding their " ( Read more... )