Yesterday was pretty fucking rad. Rob and I went to the Bodyworlds exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, which I've been wanting to see since it started touring Europe in '99. I examined everything very carefully, and barraged a very nice young lady at the medical information desk with questions. The only thing that tripped me up was the plastinated pregnant lady with...
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Seriously, don't call me before 9 am. Especially if I don't like you.
So, my plan was to spend all of today doing homework, so that I'd have lots of free time next week to play with my beloved somelameo. And here it is, 16:30, and I'm about to get started on work...
What have I been doing all day?
My friend Ruchama and I went to the annual plant sale nearby, and went totally nuts. I...
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My friend Ruchama and I went to the annual plant sale nearby, and went totally nuts. I...
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al:
Dude, are you using Safari? Upgrade it. it'll be fixed.
and yes, I'm the help request person. I'm the only one who sees them. Except sometimes s5 or Olivia.
and yes, I'm the help request person. I'm the only one who sees them. Except sometimes s5 or Olivia.
maximillian:
I should be here all of august, though probably working. If you're here for my birthday (8.13) that'd be totally sweet.
Boise is fascinating.
One of the coolest things about digging through all of my old shit was finding love letters written to me by ex boy/girlfriends. I'm pretty hot shit, it turns out. Intriguing, mysterious, sexy... but of course you knew all that.
Another awesome event was finding a box of my parents' old clothes from the 80's. I can't believe how skinny my dad...
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One of the coolest things about digging through all of my old shit was finding love letters written to me by ex boy/girlfriends. I'm pretty hot shit, it turns out. Intriguing, mysterious, sexy... but of course you knew all that.
Another awesome event was finding a box of my parents' old clothes from the 80's. I can't believe how skinny my dad...
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remusisdying:
write me a fucking email!
munke:
The recipe looks to be pretty standard... couple of questions for ya!
What kind of cornmeal are you using? If it's "mealy" I'm guessing you mean it's too grainy in texture? Either a finer grind of cornmeal, or letting the batter SIT and rest for a while should help with that... (probably try resting it, for like 30 mins-few hours in the fridge before pouring the batter.)
If they're flat, usually means there's too much liquid in the batter... or the batter is overmixed, or there's not enough air whipped into the dry ingredients 1st.
For example... take your standard pancake mix... if you whip and whip and whip up the dry mix before adding your liquids.. you can get them to be almost like little cake towers, in your griddle.
Try this (since I don't have any milk in the house to try your recipe tonight...)
Toss all the dry dry ingredients in a big bowl (cept for the sugar)... and use a whisk and fluff up the ingredients for a few minutes.
In a seperate bowl, whisk up your eggs nice and well, and mix in the sugar. To this, add your milk, and cooled melted butter.
When you've got your dry ingredients (minus sugar) all light and fluffy, and wet ingredients (plus sugar) all well mixed, pour the wet into the dry.
Don't overmix the two... just enough to get everything wet. (Little lumps in the mix are OK, and desireable).
Pour out a johnnycake.... cook it up... see how it is.
Hopefully they'll be thicker and more cake like.
If they're still "grainy" then set the bowl into the fridge for about an hour or so... this'll give the cornmeal (and flour) time to absorb the liquid and "plump" up a little bit.
Try again in an hour... and you should be on your way to success! If NOT... lemme know what happened, and we'll adjust your ingredients/cornmeal fineness/soak the cornmeal in the milk before making the mix.
Good luck!
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[Edited on May 12, 2005 6:00PM]
What kind of cornmeal are you using? If it's "mealy" I'm guessing you mean it's too grainy in texture? Either a finer grind of cornmeal, or letting the batter SIT and rest for a while should help with that... (probably try resting it, for like 30 mins-few hours in the fridge before pouring the batter.)
If they're flat, usually means there's too much liquid in the batter... or the batter is overmixed, or there's not enough air whipped into the dry ingredients 1st.
For example... take your standard pancake mix... if you whip and whip and whip up the dry mix before adding your liquids.. you can get them to be almost like little cake towers, in your griddle.
Try this (since I don't have any milk in the house to try your recipe tonight...)
Toss all the dry dry ingredients in a big bowl (cept for the sugar)... and use a whisk and fluff up the ingredients for a few minutes.
In a seperate bowl, whisk up your eggs nice and well, and mix in the sugar. To this, add your milk, and cooled melted butter.
When you've got your dry ingredients (minus sugar) all light and fluffy, and wet ingredients (plus sugar) all well mixed, pour the wet into the dry.
Don't overmix the two... just enough to get everything wet. (Little lumps in the mix are OK, and desireable).
Pour out a johnnycake.... cook it up... see how it is.
Hopefully they'll be thicker and more cake like.
If they're still "grainy" then set the bowl into the fridge for about an hour or so... this'll give the cornmeal (and flour) time to absorb the liquid and "plump" up a little bit.
Try again in an hour... and you should be on your way to success! If NOT... lemme know what happened, and we'll adjust your ingredients/cornmeal fineness/soak the cornmeal in the milk before making the mix.
Good luck!
[Edited on May 12, 2005 5:59PM]
[Edited on May 12, 2005 6:00PM]
i'll be spending my friday night with the lovely miss inbetweenpinki, oh yes! the rest of my weekend in potato land is going to involve unpacking and repacking boxes. on the bright side though, there will be many, many boxes of books involved, so it'll kind of be like christmas.
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remusisdying:
youre going to be in id this weekend? you should TOTALLY drive down to see my mom (and not somelameo).
pinkisux:
sarah and gordy said they most likely will be able to stop by TA tonite after they get off work.
Aw, thanks for all the nameday wishes guys, that was real nice.
I had a pretty good night, though I think my liver will be sulking for awhile. I got fairly hammered Friday night, figuring that post-midnight was a good enough time to get my celebration going. But all that drinking paled in comparison to Saturday night. My friends and I did a progressive. I...
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I had a pretty good night, though I think my liver will be sulking for awhile. I got fairly hammered Friday night, figuring that post-midnight was a good enough time to get my celebration going. But all that drinking paled in comparison to Saturday night. My friends and I did a progressive. I...
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esme:
Wow....I'd be curious to hear your apartment buying conundrums. These things have been on my mind lately. I guess stuff is probably pretty cheap down in Hyde Park, huh?
menotyou:
Your Saturday sounds a whole lot like mine except with less walking around and entertainment. I woke up Sunday morning with a terrible case of cold sweats and shaking limbs. I was so hungover I could barely stand.
Damn you tequila!!
Damn you tequila!!
But I've always kinda been partial to calling myself up on the phone and asking myself out, you know? Oh yeah, you call yourself up too huh? Yeah, well one thing about it, you're always around. Yeah I know, yeah you ask yourself out, you know, some class joint somewhere. The Buretto King or something, you know. Well I ain't cheap you know. Take yourself...
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piracy:
congratulations on your continued evolutionary viability.
velocity:
There was a time when I was fluent in German. I lived in Bonn for a few months in 1995, but that was pretty much the last time I spoke German to anyone but myself. I'm probably developing my own dialect.
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velocity:
Oh yeah, I totally have to get me some of those. They're too hot for words.
dunx:
Hate you.
Handing in a paper feels pretty effin good.
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al:
Dude, yeah it does.
Funny thing, your comment. I was watching all those Driver movies on my computer, giving myself a giant Clive Owens boner, when I thought, "damn, is Closer out on video yet?" As soon as I thought that I got up and went to the video store and on the way I weirdly ran into dunx and ktkate walking the beagle (okay, sorry, I'm like that guy telling a story who's hogging the mirror when all you want is your line and he has to go and tell you like 5 side stories... but do you at ALL remember the time senior year when we were trying to plan something {fuck if I remember what} and we were blitzing each other and I said something like, "yeah, dunx will be right out but first he has to walk the 'bealge.'" and you were like, "is that like spanking the monkey?" and I said, "no, it's more like spanking the 'mokney'"... anyway...) in an odd place that I didn't expect to see them walking her, like, not at all near the dog park and I think we were all like, "uh... what are YOU doing here?" "I'm going to the video store." "what for?" "I want to rent movies with Clive Owens." "You suck. Bye." But we actually did talk some after that.
*to self*
Great story, Hansel.
Fuck.
Just ignore me. I haven't eaten or slept much in the past couple days.
Speaking of not sleeping, last night, in an attempt to get to sleep, I got really stoned, which was funny in itself (think about dunx stoned) and then watched the first 20 minutes of War of the Worlds. Man, was that awesome. But anyway, I went home and went to bed after that but I only slept for maybe 2 hours at the most before waking up and lying in bed until the sun came up, unable to get back to sleep, even with the help of nyquil and too many sleeping pills. BUT! During this 2 hour period when I was asleep I had The Most Awesome Sex Dream about this Really Hot girl who was Really Good in bed. She had short hair and was really skinny and dykey, and wanted to do me a lot. It was so rad. I hope I get to have another dream like that tonight if I only sleep for 3 hours again.
Great story, Hansel.
Funny thing, your comment. I was watching all those Driver movies on my computer, giving myself a giant Clive Owens boner, when I thought, "damn, is Closer out on video yet?" As soon as I thought that I got up and went to the video store and on the way I weirdly ran into dunx and ktkate walking the beagle (okay, sorry, I'm like that guy telling a story who's hogging the mirror when all you want is your line and he has to go and tell you like 5 side stories... but do you at ALL remember the time senior year when we were trying to plan something {fuck if I remember what} and we were blitzing each other and I said something like, "yeah, dunx will be right out but first he has to walk the 'bealge.'" and you were like, "is that like spanking the monkey?" and I said, "no, it's more like spanking the 'mokney'"... anyway...) in an odd place that I didn't expect to see them walking her, like, not at all near the dog park and I think we were all like, "uh... what are YOU doing here?" "I'm going to the video store." "what for?" "I want to rent movies with Clive Owens." "You suck. Bye." But we actually did talk some after that.
*to self*
Great story, Hansel.
Fuck.
Just ignore me. I haven't eaten or slept much in the past couple days.
Speaking of not sleeping, last night, in an attempt to get to sleep, I got really stoned, which was funny in itself (think about dunx stoned) and then watched the first 20 minutes of War of the Worlds. Man, was that awesome. But anyway, I went home and went to bed after that but I only slept for maybe 2 hours at the most before waking up and lying in bed until the sun came up, unable to get back to sleep, even with the help of nyquil and too many sleeping pills. BUT! During this 2 hour period when I was asleep I had The Most Awesome Sex Dream about this Really Hot girl who was Really Good in bed. She had short hair and was really skinny and dykey, and wanted to do me a lot. It was so rad. I hope I get to have another dream like that tonight if I only sleep for 3 hours again.
Great story, Hansel.
tiamat:
i love that feeling. i used to celebrate with going to the strippers. but i am a perv so...
You know what's awesome? When you write a check, send it, and promptly forget about it until, unbeknownst to you, it gets cashed a month later, leading you to overdraft 6 fucking times in the course of 4 days, all with charges of under $20. Fuck everything. I'm such a fucking moron. Perhaps the $150 in charges will teach me a lesson. What really, really...
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scylla:
Ach, motherfuckers! You should shake sticks at them.
Will you be around this weekend? If you are, your ass is MINE (for the grabbing, that is. And then lots of giggling)
Will you be around this weekend? If you are, your ass is MINE (for the grabbing, that is. And then lots of giggling)
erythrocytez:
the same thing happened to me about two weeks ago.. I thought I had $60 in my bank, but it turned out I got some fees taken out and was left with $58. So at night I go to the machine and get out $60. no worries.. Then I get an overdrraft bill for $70 because I used a different banks ATM. HOw fucked is that? Get charged $70 over $2. 
Seeing Sith today.