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Mon, 20 May 2013 18:53:13 -0700

party-wok: i for one welcome our new blue yodeling overlords.

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:09:26 -0700

i for one welcome our new blue yodeling overlords.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! I tried a couple...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! I tried a couple different recipes - one that’s supposed to work overnight, because I have no patience, and another that suggests waiting a week. Here goes nothing!

helms-deep replied to your post: In a pickle One of the guys I follow, kxpx, has done quite a lot...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:18:23 -0700

helms-deep replied to your post: In a pickle

One of the guys I follow, kxpx, has done quite a lot of pickling. Might wanna reach out to him. Best of luck!

Awesome - thanks Ralph!

In a pickle

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:09:44 -0700

Anyone have any pickling advice? I’m lousy with kirby cucumbers this week from the CSA so I’m gonna give it a shot, but I’ve never pickled anything but beets before. I’m thinking I’m gonna dump in a bunch of the serranos from our garden. Maybe some garlic?

Helm's Deep: I know I'm gonna get shit for this but...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:34:58 -0700

Helm's Deep: I know I'm gonna get shit for this but...:

evangotlib:

…I like the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr (if it happens).

Tumblr needs something to happen. This is clear. The team in place has taken the company as far as it can go. They are creators - builders of stuff - they are not managers. This lack of experience has caused issues at…

Axes of Dick would be a good metal band name too

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:02:00 -0700

Yes. Definitely. And I suspect Van would be a fan.

A single company owns the exclusive patent on the BRCA 1 and 2 mutations—and jacks up the price for a $200 genetic test for breast cancer risk to $3,000, just because they can.

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:08:25 -0700

A single company owns the exclusive patent on the BRCA 1 and 2 mutations—and jacks up the price for a $200 genetic test for breast cancer risk to $3,000, just because they can.:

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intention exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

Nobody can know about this, alright? Especially Kent. And why...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:04:03 -0700

Nobody can know about this, alright? Especially Kent. And why is that? Because he’s going to use it against me…

That moment when you realize that something you said could have been taken the wrong way, but the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:47:57 -0700

That moment when you realize that something you said could have been taken the wrong way, but the conversation took place a while ago, so you wonder if you should try to correct yourself or if the person you were talking to would even remember what you said. So you obsess over it longer and longer to where it would even be less likely that the person cares and more awkward if you said something.

For TLOTH and Dr. Baffled on their anniversary.

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:43:04 -0700

For TLOTH and Dr. Baffled on their anniversary.

shortformblog: Idea: What if the federal government gave...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:57:34 -0700

shortformblog:

Idea: What if the federal government gave someone like Neil DeGrasse Tyson a “Science Laureate” role, like we do for poets? Sound like a good idea? Fortunately, members of Congress are already working on it.

gregcohn: EFF: Who has your back?

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:56 -0700

gregcohn:

EFF: Who has your back?

yesterday-never: Day 09 - A song that makes you want to...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:13:36 -0700

yesterday-never:

Day 09 - A song that makes you want to dance

I’m the Man Who Loves You by Wilco

My Medical Choice - NYTimes.com

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:51:25 -0700

My Medical Choice - NYTimes.com:

journo-geekery:

Angelina Jolie on her preventative double mastectomy:

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be will able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.

(Ah, wrong account. Apologies. But I’m gonna leave this one here—it’s remarkable in many ways.)

I have a very positive outlook.

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:44:57 -0700

I have a very positive outlook.

bobbycaputo: Photo Series of a Young Girl Dressed Up as Great...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:53:42 -0700

bobbycaputo:

Photo Series of a Young Girl Dressed Up as Great Women Throughout History

Photographer Jaime Moore‘s daughter Emma recently turned 5 years old. Naturally, being a photographer, Moore wanted to commemorate the event for her daughter by putting together a cute photo shoot for her, so she turned to the Internet for inspiration.

Much to her chagrin, however, something like 95 percent of the ideas she ran into were actually the same idea: how to dress up your 5-year-old as a Disney Princess. Moore wasn’t keen on that, so she went another way. Instead of dressing her daughter up as a made up ideal, an “unrealistic fantasy” as she put it, she chose to dress and pose her daughter as some of the greatest women throughout history.

The point was to convey to little Emma that she could be anything she wants to be. As Moore explains it on her blog:

My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters.

Each photo is also captioned with an inspirational quote by the amazing woman it portrays. To see all of them in higher resolution and read more about Moore’s inspiration for the project, head over to her website by clicking here.

My mother’s irises - still blooming after all these years....

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:07:08 -0700

My mother’s irises - still blooming after all these years.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the fantastic mommas I’ve gotten to know here!

womaninterrupted: bestofthe60s: #17. Frankie Valli - Can’t...

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:48:05 -0700

womaninterrupted:

bestofthe60s:

#17. Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (1967)

Oh yes.

kcetliving: Restaurateur George Yu Talks Cantonese Food and...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:02:24 -0700

kcetliving:

Restaurateur George Yu Talks Cantonese Food and Sleep Deprivation

As for the food, Yu recommends the following: walnut shrimp, kung pao chicken, gui fei ji (marinated chicken named after a imperial Chinese concubine), and the filet mignon cubes. He’s particularly proud of the restaurant’s Hong Kong egg waffle, an elusive snack found in only a few places in Los Angeles made with flour, eggs, evaporated milk, sugar, starch and baking powder. It’s cooked in a special waffle iron and comes out looking like bubble wrap, the sides slightly crisp. “Other venues put too much egg in it,” he says. The recipe, developed by Yu himself, seems to be working. The egg waffle is one of the restaurant’s most popular menu items.

Read more about the open-till-4am restaurant here.

I wanna do this when I get back. Who’s with me.