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rsadelleChocolate chip cookies made without baking soda taste more like brown sugar than their properly made counterparts. The sad thing is not that I know this. The sad thing is that this is not the first time I've forgotten the baking soda. I suspect this is the real reason the recipe tells you to mix the flour and baking soda and set it aside at the beginning.
And speaking of chocolate chip cookies, homemade versions of the Chipwich are just not the same thing. Does anyone know where to buy Chipwiches and/or Good Humor's Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches? Back in the day, Blockbuster had a Good Humor case, but I don't shop there anymore. And I really want a Chipwich.
Be very careful if you decide to open up your pepper grinder. If you aren't, you, like me, might dig out a bit of skin from your thumb and have to put off assembling the enchiladas until the next day.
I thought it was odd that everyone else (read:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
j_crew_guy and hederahelix) talked about Burn Notice just as I watched all of the first season on Hulu. But then I realized that, no, it made perfect sense. I was in a hotel the weekend before last, and I watched bits and pieces of varying Law & Orders USA (unlike my travel the week and a half before where the hotel inexplicably had the eastern feed so it was always Without a Trace when I wanted L&O), which had a lot of ads for Burn Notice's season two premiere. (Which, I think, was disappointing given the setup.)
While watching TV on Hulu, I kept seeing ads for DirecTV. Is this really the best avenue for your marketing? I'm not paying to watch cable; I'm watching it for free online. What makes you think I'm going to go for DirecTV?
I also watched all six existing episodes of In Plain Sight. Mary's just now starting to grow on me, but I've loved Marshall from the very beginning.
I readreccea's "In Production" on hederahelix's recommendation. I mostly enjoyed it. If you don't know the fandom, you might want to bug someone who does for a quick dramatis personae before reading it. At the very least, keep IMDb open in another tab.
And speaking ofhederahelix, she always complains that whenever there's a fire anywhere in Southern California, people worry about her because they have no sense of geography. I don't know if I should be insulted that no one's asked me if I'm okay. Yahoo! keeps putting the fire in my county on its top headlines list. At first, I thought it was because they like it that it's Paradise; then I thought it might be because they're reading my IP, and they know I'm nearby. The state of things, since you didn't ask, is that the smoke is terrible. Living on the third floor of a building with no elevator and no central air in Chapel Hill for four years taught me how to deal with heat. But heat plus constant smoke is not fun at all. The nice thing is that my apartment seals really well; I didn't even know the town was full of smoke until I opened my door on the first day of it. I do work in Paradise, and while our building is a cooling station, we haven't been in an evacuation zone for this fire (we were for the last fire). My boss and another coworker were evacuated, and my boss brought her two dogs and her two chickens to work with her one day. Such is life in Paradise.
I tried watching The Tudors this week. Remember how when I was reading Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910 - 1939, I loved reading the Wikipedia articles about the people in them? The Tudors was like that, only more so. The history was more interesting than the show, I had no patience for the political blahblahblah on the show, the sex wasn't that hot, and I'm not into JRM.
Watched while writing this: Boy Culture. I hesitated to Netflix it because it's distributed by TLA Releasing, which has released some truly awful movies, but Netflix predicted I'd give it a 3.9, so I gave it a try. It's actually pretty good, and sweet to boot.
And speaking of chocolate chip cookies, homemade versions of the Chipwich are just not the same thing. Does anyone know where to buy Chipwiches and/or Good Humor's Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches? Back in the day, Blockbuster had a Good Humor case, but I don't shop there anymore. And I really want a Chipwich.
Be very careful if you decide to open up your pepper grinder. If you aren't, you, like me, might dig out a bit of skin from your thumb and have to put off assembling the enchiladas until the next day.
I thought it was odd that everyone else (read:
j_crew_guy and hederahelix) talked about Burn Notice just as I watched all of the first season on Hulu. But then I realized that, no, it made perfect sense. I was in a hotel the weekend before last, and I watched bits and pieces of varying Law & Orders USA (unlike my travel the week and a half before where the hotel inexplicably had the eastern feed so it was always Without a Trace when I wanted L&O), which had a lot of ads for Burn Notice's season two premiere. (Which, I think, was disappointing given the setup.)While watching TV on Hulu, I kept seeing ads for DirecTV. Is this really the best avenue for your marketing? I'm not paying to watch cable; I'm watching it for free online. What makes you think I'm going to go for DirecTV?
I also watched all six existing episodes of In Plain Sight. Mary's just now starting to grow on me, but I've loved Marshall from the very beginning.
I read
reccea's "In Production" on hederahelix's recommendation. I mostly enjoyed it. If you don't know the fandom, you might want to bug someone who does for a quick dramatis personae before reading it. At the very least, keep IMDb open in another tab.And speaking of
hederahelix, she always complains that whenever there's a fire anywhere in Southern California, people worry about her because they have no sense of geography. I don't know if I should be insulted that no one's asked me if I'm okay. Yahoo! keeps putting the fire in my county on its top headlines list. At first, I thought it was because they like it that it's Paradise; then I thought it might be because they're reading my IP, and they know I'm nearby. The state of things, since you didn't ask, is that the smoke is terrible. Living on the third floor of a building with no elevator and no central air in Chapel Hill for four years taught me how to deal with heat. But heat plus constant smoke is not fun at all. The nice thing is that my apartment seals really well; I didn't even know the town was full of smoke until I opened my door on the first day of it. I do work in Paradise, and while our building is a cooling station, we haven't been in an evacuation zone for this fire (we were for the last fire). My boss and another coworker were evacuated, and my boss brought her two dogs and her two chickens to work with her one day. Such is life in Paradise.I tried watching The Tudors this week. Remember how when I was reading Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910 - 1939, I loved reading the Wikipedia articles about the people in them? The Tudors was like that, only more so. The history was more interesting than the show, I had no patience for the political blahblahblah on the show, the sex wasn't that hot, and I'm not into JRM.
Watched while writing this: Boy Culture. I hesitated to Netflix it because it's distributed by TLA Releasing, which has released some truly awful movies, but Netflix predicted I'd give it a 3.9, so I gave it a try. It's actually pretty good, and sweet to boot.
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Date: 2008-07-13 05:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-07-15 02:56 am (UTC)Also
Date: 2008-07-13 03:26 pm (UTC)Re: Also
Date: 2008-07-15 02:56 am (UTC)Re: Also
Date: 2008-07-15 04:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-13 07:26 am (UTC)Is Hulu carrying the second season of Burn Notice? I taped the first episode since I was out of town and my parents have cable, but I have this vague feeling that you don't have a VCR either--is that correct?
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Date: 2008-07-13 03:27 pm (UTC)Hulu does have the second season. I have a VCR, but no cable, so your instinct that I watched it online was a good one.
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Date: 2008-07-13 10:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-15 04:44 am (UTC)You're really showing your geek credentials if what you were doing on your wedding night was trying to watch Venture Bros.