Sounds interesting, next time I am headed down to Fayettnam I will try and stop for lunch. [grats on the sprog, and I would have sent Rob down to get me something real to eat!]

I remember reading my parents stockpile of old copies [they started getting it in 1949, the original subscription was a wedding present!] and the ones from my grandparents, it *used* to be a scholarly journal of what a bunch of traveling scientists were studying ... archeology, anthropology, geology ... not just naked…

I think it has a definite place - I adore useful tech. If I were interested in blog-teaching something it would be nice to be able to focus on my hands instead of worrying that the camera is focused in the right place with no camera-human helping me. I do the occasional lost art as part of my historical re-enactment…

Classically the difference between baking and broiling was in whether or not the dish in question was enclosed in an oven or in front of heat.

Knife, and my Larousse Gastro, thanks. Look, I spent 3 years learning classic French cuisine, and I don't feel the need to do the 'Cooking Show' in my own damned kitchen. I can cook, I know I can cook, my husband knows I can cook. I don't feel the need to post every single morsel that passes my lips in either…

When I was 4, my brother 6 and my sister 8 we all had whooping cough. I visit my sisters grave once or twice a year with flowers. I would like to say that I was too young to remember her, but I would be lying.

PCOS bitches ... ain't *no* dependable charting of that cycle! I had PCOS my entire adult life, and ranged from skipping for month after month for almost a year to not skipping any minutes for almost a year and having anemia despite all the meds my doc could pour down my throat. Bleeding ranging from barely there…

Boil them until they are almost soft, then slice thinly and layer in a baking dish with shredded cheese, some ground pepper and chopped parsley. Bake in a medium oven until the slices are soft and the cheese is bubbly and starting to go golden brown on top. You can do the same with potatoes or turnips, or even sweet…

Can I say that I have been hearing Brangelina brad and angelina crap for so damned long I thought they were married.

Fuck that shit, I am going to see if I can get a pre 1974 IH Scout. Electrical systems based on computers are evil, plain and simple. [and only semi-joking unfortunately.]

If you don't like burnt coffee, it is worlds better.

Timmy's coffee is better than the burnt nasty crap that the Starbucks idiots seem to adore. If I want burnt coffee, instead of paying $5 for a cup, I can toss some coffee beans on a fire before grinding them and make my own overly sugared coffee milkshakes.

Frequently the chairs in use are what are called 'transport chairs' and only have 4 small wheels, not the large pair of wheels used to wheel a chair.

Given that the report still rules the death a suicide, how exactly does a man with his hands cuffed behind his back produce a gun and shoot himself in the chest?

Hm, and I prefer not to be treated like a walking womb, thanks. The mani problem I have with those against the artificial womb is they do not stop to think of the physical cost of bearing a child internally. There are some serious short and long term issues up to and including death for many women. Childbearing is NOT…

One issue I have noticed with some vegetarians is they are not also locavores - and the transport of some of the more exotic stuff they rave about is pretty non-ecologically sound. If you are 'all that' about the environmental cost of your diet, then you should be a locavore. Our ancestors managed it ... [and…

LOL no, but I will be pretty intemperate in my inner voice. Keeps me from telling people what idiots they are to their faces occasionally. And you can't tell me that you don't do the same, it is human nature to have an inner voice and an outer voice that are not saying the same things.

Want a good recipe for a seitan turkey with mushroom stuffing? Or how about tofu bacon that is pretty yummy? A really tasty dessert? Maybe instead of going with the 'brown slime' [as an acquaintence of mine calls it] if you bring something less 'granola crunchy hippy' he might consider moderating his complaints. [And…

Then why do the more vocal seem to like to preach at the Divine Caesar level of persecution? I seem to startle most veg eaters in my more than willingness to eat veggie being a known omnivore. Ask me where to go eat, I will suggest someplace I would like to go. If I don't know someone in the group is a veggie, I won't…

Most likely. And for a carnivore, I tend to eat a hell of a lot of seitan and tofu all on my own. I just also think a perfect steak is fantastic and want to be left alone to eat it since I choose to remain an omnivore.