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Pet peeve: Ads that use an asterisk by a product feature, but no other asterisk (or anything looking like a footnote pertaining to that feature) appears anywhere else in the ad.
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*using this as an example of another kind of online asterisk usage that doesn't bug me either, although I know it drives some people mad*
It's the ones that look like they're supposed to be a footnote marker that make me nuts! I'm always thinking, "OK, so where's the disclaimer or the additional info they want me to know about?"
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We have two big-ass spiders in here that are freaking me out.
Well, okay, only one is big-ass, although I suppose I should be accurate and call it big-egg-sac.
We're talking spiders with legs that are three inches long and 3 or 4 mm wide - the legs, not the spiders. The spider bodies are like an inch in diameter with the addition parked on the back.
I wish they'd die. I've already killed two of their friends. Do I have to kill these two, too?
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The wedding is over. All major events associated with the wedding is over. Yay. Sanity restored once again.
But... Fahim and I are going with his parents, brother and his new wife to visit the relatives in Kurunegala & Kandy. The brother and new wife are obligated to introduce themselves as the new couple to all the relatives, and since Fahim and I never did that, we're tagging along, and the parents thought they'd make a family event out of it.
Hence the more sewing. I need (!) two new shalwaars to wear this weekend.
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Oh, Tante, salwaar kameez are available ready made here as well. But they're made for, appropriately enough, petite skinny women, the Asian demographic. Sadly, I am neither of those things.
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When I went to India I had trouble finding a cute shaw for my sister-in-law. She did not fit the average Indian woman's dimensions either. When I mentioned this in my little history of the trip, she was a bit upset. She's still mad at me. Oh well.
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: But they're made for, appropriately enough, petite skinny women, the Asian demographic.
The ones in New Jersey are made for the New Jersey demographic. Mom and Dad may have old-country physiques, but when they start feeding the kids McDonald's, the kids puff up to American proportions. But they still need to have a new salwaar kameez that fits.
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Fahim doesn't have his parent's physique, but then, his parents don't have their parent's physique, either... I met his one remaining grandmother on Friday, and she's something like 4'8" or maybe 4'10". Fahim's mom and dad are both shorter than me, so maybe 5'4" or 5'5", and Fahim's topping them at 5'11". All this without the benefit of McDonald's. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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My name hath been submitted for a management position at Jazzfest.
In the meantime, dear NASA, who the hell taught you how to encourage employee efficiency? Seriously.
Also, I have been invited to work with OneLovEvolution, a non-profit. Pretty much, they said, "We'll show you what we have, and you can figure out what you want or need to do."
I need to go buy a book on medieval law already.
quid, how tall are you in relation to your parents?
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Does anyone know if typing is like playing the piano? To be more specific, I type pretty fast and i can't think about it or else I kinda can't do it. If anyone plays the piano is it kinda like that?
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quote:Originally posted by pH: quid, how tall are you in relation to your parents?
My mother is 5'nothing, and my father is 6'. I'm smack in the middle at 5'6". Average - completely and totally average - in North America, but here, I'm tall.
My father has some sisters who are taller than him even - I think the tallest tops out at 6'1" or 6'3" - not sure. They also have gargantuann beast feet at sizes of up to 13. Mine are "only" a ten.
Kwea - yeah, I know. But this was more fun. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I had a realllly good day today. Got hiking poles cheap, got new clothes, earned some money working for my dad, then skipped out of work (my real job) and celebrated my friends birthday at a Japanese resturant. And then we went back to her house and tried to build a onion volcano with overproof Jamaican Rum. Ah, good times, good times.
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String hoppers, pol sambol, and that stuff that I don't remember the name for but is a type of syrop made from coconut milk and jaggery are just fantastic!
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Last night, we had mangoes from the mango trees in Fahim's parent's other house's yard. They were good. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Jaggery is from the sap of certain palm trees, like kithul. When in a more liquid state (with 1/8 to 1/16th of the original volume), it's called treacle and it's syrop much like maple syrop. Further boiled down to something similar to wet brown sugar, it's called jaggery.
It has a different flavor from brown sugar or maple syrop, of course, and it's yummy! Made into a syrop with coconut milk it's excellent. Mixed with coconut milk and eggs to form a custard, and it's wattalapam and fantastic the way my mother in law makes it.
Yum!
I've been meaning to make fudge for days. I have no candy thermometer, though, so would have to guess at temperatures and use the sports method to approximate. (Sports method: softball, hardball... )
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I've heard of treacle but don't think I've ever had it. (adds jaggery and treacle to list of things to try "someday")
Hooray, my fudge came out pretty darn good this time! I used this Alton Brown recipe. I thought my arm was gonna fall off before I got it all beaten, though. And then it set up faster than I could get it in the pan, so it's pretty lumpy. But tastes good and really creamy.
I had another random thought for quid, but I think I'll resurrect the bra thread for that one.
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Looks like a good recipe, Uprooted, but I won't be using it - too many ingredients I can't get here. But I did locate an old-fashioned recipe, five ingredients only (I think) that I'll use. Being old-fashioned, it relies on basic ingredients available even here.
I use treacle on pancakes & French toast in the place of syrop - very very nice. The jaggery I've minced to death and used in the place of brown sugar in recipes, but have to further decrease the amount of liquids. They add a nice flavor. If you find the jaggery, email me and I'll send you the wattalapam recipe. It's so very very very very good. Of course, the version I got calls for 1.5 kgs jaggery, 1 coconut made into coconut milk (thick), and 15 eggs, so probably a bit bigger than you'd want...
So, I'll go hunt down the random bra thread now. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I learned how to successfully crack open a coconut such that the separated edge is even all the way around, which makes for easier scraping of said coconut.
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Gallery2 doesn't like it when you change servers. It tends to break all the thumbnails, and no amount of attempting to fix it actually ever works. Ever. This is the second time now it's done this to me, both times after server moves. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Um, I'm not a programmer. Yeah, I'm married to one, but he's busy with his own coding right now.
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Hmm. Well. I spent the first part of it with a really cool family. Very enjoyable. Then I spent the latter part with someone special. Combine that with the nice weather and the halo around the moon, it was just a great night to be alive. Posts: 2827 | Registered: Jul 2005
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: Um, I'm not a programmer. Yeah, I'm married to one, but he's busy with his own coding right now.
quid, for three thousand photographs, at say two clicks and a ten-second wait per photograph, you can learn network programming in brainf*ck, take cookery classes on the side, and still come out ahead on time and frustration.
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Strangelove, that sounds like a lovely evening.
KoM, well, yeah, if I was uploading the photos one by one, that would make sense. Except I don't need cookery classes.
I upload them a huge chunk at a time - by directory. Well, no, to be accurate, I upload them to the server via FTP first. Then I upload them to the gallery program using symlinks. In any case, there's not that much actual work for me to do there. I just like to whine. That, and because I shouldn't have to do this again, and wouldn't if only the dang program didn't crap out.
The time consuming part is sorting them into the various categories and re-labelling them properly. That's the really irritating part. That, and losing the comments. *grrr*
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It's not that I think this is necessarily unimportant; it's more that I don't really know how I'd start a thread about it. It's just a thought.
I was watching Meet the Press today and they showed a clip of MLK from 1967. I thought to myself just how different the country might have been if he'd lived. He was a pretty dynamic guy, almost ahead of his time in a way, and I think we missed out when his life was cut short.
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Yeah I'm sure that there would be alot of things different if he was still alive. Maybe a lot less black on black violence and stuff like that. The problems that emerged for the poor and black populations of America after segregation could have been solved or handled a lot differently than they are right now.
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Depends on what you call ski pants. I knew several women who ski in something like insulated stretch pants. Let me tell you, when your legs are toned from the slopes, that looks damn good Posts: 3950 | Registered: Mar 2006
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Where are these pants, and how do these women not freeze to death? I desire to not look like I'm wrapped in styrofoam. If I'm going to fly off a mountain and into a snowblower, I at least want to look non-ugly doing it.
quote:Originally posted by Euripides: Why is it called the double quarter pounder? Shouldn't it be a half pounder?
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I've never had a double quarter pounder.
Neither have I, but I still know the answer to the first question. A double-quarter pounder contains two quarter-pound (before they were cooked) patties. See?
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I heard recently that over in Japan they introduced the triple quarter pounder. Not sure if they already have that here in the states or not.
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No idea about McDonald's, but at Wendy's you've been able to order a "Classic Triple" for as long as I can remember. 3/4 lb of beef. I had it once, when I was temporarily insane. It was good.
Now, watching someone eat a 1.5lb burger was a whole 'nother ballgame.
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Neither have I, but I still know the answer to the first question. A double-quarter pounder contains two quarter-pound (before they were cooked) patties.
quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit:
Now, watching someone eat a 1.5lb burger was a whole 'nother ballgame.
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quote:Originally posted by signal:
I heard recently that over in Japan they introduced the triple quarter pounder.
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I'm trying to decide if I want to be the smelly kid in class or not. Right now I'm signed up for a 9-9:50 tennis class. I have the option of auditing an Investment & Portfolio Management class for my own edification, but it starts at 10. I think I can manage the walk from the tennis courts to the Investments class (if it's in the building I think it is in), and I can always use my bike, but I really don't want to be all sweaty and gross in the class for two hours.... Anyone else deal with this problem before?
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quote:Originally posted by pH: ....those are some really freakin' expensive pants! Man.
-pH
Have you tried going to an army surplus store and looking for pants made of a waterproof (gortex type?) material? Maybe even in a winter camouflage pattern?
I've never tried, so I don't know if you'll find anything. But if you do, it'll probably be cheaper than $450!
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