OK, that rehearsal went well. I’m looking forward to doing this.
For next time: A list of sundry items that we may need
Things I learned today
Be more forceful when mixing melted chocolate into the beaten yolks. Similarly don’t be afraid to fold the yolks into the whites more thoroughly. Roll the souffle so it comes out short and fat, not long and thin, since it’s easier that way, and the expansion joints in the cream do a hell of a lot more good.
And damn, it’s a good thing I decided to try a practice cake before the one for Thanksgiving.
To those of you at Buffy night this week: Yes, the experimental cake will be there. I think it turned out tasting reasonably well, but since it’s not going to be tasteable for another day or two, it’s kinda hard to tell. It will probably be very ugly, however.
Ite, missa est.
Totals for the day:
43 applications.
31 to the United States
3 to Canada
3 to Israel
6 to various places in Europe
Tomorrow: The post office.
Fascinating…
From the Belief-O-Matic quiz, following darklingrose‘s meme… (Kinda surprising. Neo-Pagan is fine, but then Unitarian Unimodularism, Reform Judaism, and New Age .* all tend to leave me very cold. But OTOH, I don’t think that most quizzes are equipped to handle a fairly orthodox Jewish Pagan. 🙂
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
3. Reform Judaism (91%)
4. New Age (90%)
5. Liberal Quakers (89%)
6. New Thought (81%)
7. Bahá’í Faith (80%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (80%)
9. Scientology (79%)
10. Sikhism (79%)
11. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
12. Hinduism (73%)
13. Orthodox Judaism (69%)
14. Islam (62%)
15. Jainism (62%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%)
17. Secular Humanism (57%)
18. Theravada Buddhism (57%)
19. Taoism (48%)
20. Orthodox Quaker (47%)
21. Nontheist (37%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (34%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (33%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (24%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (22%)
26. Roman Catholic (22%)
27. Jehovah’s Witness (17%)
Discoveries
The top headline of this week’s Weekly World News reads “Three new commandments discovered!”
Excellent evening
Good people, good setting, good fire, good food. What more could one ask for?
Oh yeah, a full night’s sleep. Ah, whatever — sleep is for the weak. 🙂
I’ll leave the details to other people who can type more coherently right now — I need to go wake up enough to handle students. But thanks to all of you who showed up last night!
*whew*
So I just gave a talk to my research group about my latest paper, and they seemed to like it. For a group as hard-to-please (and quick to pounce) as this one, that’s no minor thing.
Woohoo! I get decent recommendation letters when hunting for postdocs!
Whew…
Well, that’s it… my paper is finally up on the web, available to the public, now with its very own preprint number, hep-th/0210175. It’s funny, it didn’t feel like it was really sent out until now… there’s just something about seeing my name on the daily papers list that just amplifies the reality.
OK, now to go submit it to a journal…
Updated: And it’s off… submitted to Physical Review D. Plus got to talk on the phone with my father, which is always good.
Thought for the day…
From the Annals of Improbable Research, today’s edition:
Investigator Ron Josephson alerted us to the following mathematics-related dispatch, which appeared in the October 11, 2002 issue of “The Salt Lake Tribune”:
The menu at the Coffee Garden at 900 East and 900 South in Salt Lake City has included a scrumptious selection of quiche for about 10 years.
The recipe calls for four fresh eggs for each quiche.
A Salt Lake County Health Department inspector paid a visit recently and pointed out that research by the Food and Drug Administration indicates that one in four eggs carries salmonella bacterium, so restaurants should never use more than three eggs when preparing quiche.
The manager on duty wondered aloud if simply throwing out three eggs from each dozen and using the remaining nine in four-egg-quiches would serve the same purpose.
The inspector wasn’t sure, but she said she would research it.
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