D'oh! That'd be our gracious host, not hostess...
I'm definitely late to this party, but I thought Susan @70, Debbie @87 and heresiarch @185 (and our gracious hostess as well) might find this post about Zucker and Blanchard interesting.
Not to defend the actions of the Park Police, but DC's a weird place WRT police jurisdiction. You've got DC Metro PD, uniformed Secret Service, the Park Police, the US Capitol Police, and the Transit Authority Police... and those are the obvious ones. (Who knew that the Smithsonian had their own police force?) But even the Wikipedia list isn't exhaustive - for instance, the Post Office has a uniformed police presence in DC.
When I lived there in the early 90s as a young lefty rabble-rouser, the Park Police were the ones you didn't want to mess with. MPD officers were tough but (usually) fair, uniformed Secret Service and US Capitol Police were typically polite and fair, but the Park Police had a reputation for cracking heads first and asking questions later.
OTOH, I'm also pretty sure that my interactions with DC-area law enforcement would have been different had I been black. (Though I did have the experience of getting pulled over by DC MPD for driving while white...)
I thought this might be of interest to folks here, and a quick search of this thread and the memorial thread doesn't show any duplicates: a proposal to name the 19 March gamma ray burst in honor of Arthur C Clarke - The Clarke Event.
If this was already covered elsewhere, mea culpa, maxima culpa and all that jazz...
In re: 'match day' - psychologists go through it too...
Part of what turned me off DS9 fairly early on was how completely it backed off from what it originally promised. According to early reports, Sisko was supposed to be a crippled, embittered war hero who'd been given command of Deep Space 9 in order to force him to retire: sorry about your severed spinal cord and your dead wife, here's this skeevy backwater post...
The series was supposed to explore the darker side of the Federation: how *did* the Federation maintain such remarkable harmony? What kind of police and spy networks (internal and external) would be required to maintain that system? How disconnected from the Federation ideal were the outposts and frontier worlds? What pain, intentional or accidental, would a massive bureaucracy like that inflict in order to survive?
DS9 promised to swim in deep, murky waters; instead, it wound up splashing around in the kiddie pool, pretending it was, well, boldly going and all that... Was it darker than ST:TNG? Sure - but only by comparison.
D'oh! Had I waited a few minutes, my praise for the anti-spam poetry embedded in the 1000 last comments would have appeared here instead of in thread 102...
Madeline F @ #9: Look at the timestamp... 12:02 AM. It is tomorrow already. Er. As it were.
(Dixville Notch makes a point of being the first of the first, so folks gather to cast their votes at midnight. I was unaware that they did it at The Balsams, which sounds quite lovely, indeed.)
Joel @ 21 --
I've found a variant attributed to Schlieffen. *shrug* Dunno. I seem to recall it being attributed to an American Civil War leader, too...
(Oh, and to return to the thread, I'd like to enter a plea of no contest to the charge of programming while consorting with Belphegor.)
When I was an undergrad, there was one night where a friend showed up with another bottle of vodka after we'd polished off all the OJ making Screwdrivers. We did, however, have a jar of Tang lying around. The end products were christened the NASA Screwdriver and Rocket Fuel - Rocket Fuel being Tang powder mixed directly into the vodka.
The evening was... special.
Brooks @10:
I've hosted a couple of vegetarian Thanksgivings in the past, and I've found that traditional stuffing recipes (with appropriate ingredient adjustments like using veggie sausage, mushroom or other veggie broth, etc.) work astonishingly well with pretty much any stuffable vegetable: acorn or other winter squash, zucchini, eggplant.
I typically look up 'Stuffed [stuffable veggie]' in our trusty Fanny Farmer cookbook for cooking times and temps as a guideline, but apart from that mostly wing it.
We're staying put, no visitors, no visiting, which is fine by us this year.
For food we're grilling filet mignon wrapped w/ bacon, served with mashed potatoes. And, because I can't help myself, I'm going to tweak my wife by serving her a sort of deconstructed green bean casserole: steamed organic green beans topped w/ mushroom gravy (field mushrooms (chanterelles & oysters) and shallots in a classic white sauce), garnished with Vietnamese crispy-fried shallots.
She's going to love it, and I'm never going to let her forget it... ;-)
A recent (June 2007) issue of Health magazine had a recipe by Rick Bayless for trail mix that called for peanuts coated in lime juice and chili powder. The ratios are 2 cups nuts moistened w/ 2 Tablespoons fresh lime juice, sprinkled w/ 2 teaspoons of chili powder (and tossed to coat). Spread in even layer on baking sheet and bake for 20-30 minutes at 250F. Sprinkle w/ 1 teaspoon of salt when they come out of the oven.
(The remainder of the recipe calls for toasting 1 cup of shelled pumpkinseeds in a skillet over medium heat until they all pop (about 5 minutes). Add to peanuts, along with 1/2 cup golden raisins and 1/2 cup chopped dried apricots.)
At any rate, I don't see why you couldn't do something similar with your cashews. My guess is that your cashews were misted with water to make the curry powder stick - which then evaporated when they were roasted, so it isn't counted as an ingredient.
Non-canonical can opener: 00 buck. Great on cans*; not so good on lug nuts.
* assuming that the only goal is opening said can, and not retaining contents of can for later use.
Terry @ 241:
"The weather suits me (though it's not as conducive to plants as I would like)"
It's all a matter of perspective - my parents (from Massachusetts) visited for the first time last January, and my mom couldn't stop going on about how we still had roses.
Carrie S:
By googling 'diy bicycle lights', I found this site through a degree of separation: Red Circuits. I don't think they have exactly what you want, but it's probably a good start. Check out 'hobby & model' or 'auto' for starters.
OSC is (deservedly, at least based upon the excerpts I've read) getting his lumps from lots of folks in the blogosphere... TBogg lets him have it, as does Lawyers, Guns & Money and Roy Edroso.
It's hard to keep being witty about these fsckers...
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