I just received spam with the subject line “Juicy, plump, chubby girls!”
Unfortunately, I deleted it before thinking to check whether they were offering porn or cannibalism.
Strange dreams…
Dreamt that Google had decided to become a biotech company, and I was assigned to “think of something interesting and do it.” I ended up working on sunflowers with a couple of other people; it was pretty neat. Even better was the brawl later on when some woman decided to start spraying everyone in the area with ham extract – I missed most of the melee, since by the time I got there the cops were carting people off, but a good, somewhat violent time was had by all.
Yes, this is odd. On top of this, I seem to have woken up with a pagan/Christian fusion song stuck in my head – “Magna Mater Dolorosa.” Not sure where that came from.
Spy vs. Spy
OK, I’ve had enough with trying to maintain a separate subject-matter filter for politics posts. Instead I’ll just hide them behind a cut tag, so nobody is exposed to them without warning, and use an appropriate icon that conveys the seriousness and gravity of the matter.
Yup, this one should about do.
Fun and games in Mother Russia
[politics filter]
OK, time for some general ruminations on the state of affairs w.r.t. Russia…
Long notes on oil and intelligence
Experimental results
Test #1. Partial success. The idea of maple ice cream has been vindicated strongly, as has the overall functionality of the ice-cream making machine. (Cuisinart, btw, and quite recommended based on this limited test)
The recipe in question, derived from reading through a lot of other recipes and trying to merge them, is a complete failure. For reference, the basic idea was to make a creme anglaise – boil the milk, cream and flavor mixture, whisk it in to eggs, hold it at 170F for a few moments, strain and chill – and then freeze it. The resulting flavor is hard to describe, and best not thought about too closely, especially this close to lunch.
Test #2 will use a lighter recipe, perhaps one omitting the eggs altogether. If anyone has a favored category of ice cream recipes that they think may be worth using in future tests, please let me know.
Wahahahaha…
I am now the owner of an ice cream maker.
I also now have a list of experiments planned. Maple, several flowers (esp. Jasmine), fresh spearmint and peppermint (to be served together, sitting in chocolate shells), port wine, smoked salmon (to be served sitting inside half an avocado, together with very thin toasted slices of baguette), cucumber sorbet (to be served in the middle of a bowl of gazpacho), sundry fruits (maybe apple sorbet floating in some real apple cider? i.e. the good very dry Bretagne variety, not the artificially flavored shite they’ve been selling in the supermarkets lately…), nuts and spices (Hazelnut, nutmeg, clove & allspice, and so on) and so on…
This will be fun.
Those of you in the area may be unexpectedly dragooned into acting as guinea pigs for various of these, at various times in the near future.
Also, on a completely different note: the band ‘Paris Combo’ is excellent. French jazz with lots of Spanish and Gypsy influences. Highly recommended to anyone who likes any of those categories.
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