The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Elyse Grasso:

Another glacial discard, Cochegan Rock in Montville, Connecticut was proclaimed the largest free-standing boulder in New England after it was measured by scientists from Harvard in the 1870s.

It was recently sold back to the Mohegans (for whom it has religious and historical significance) by the Boy Scouts, who had owned the property or many years.

It sounds like yours is bigger, but Cochegan Rock was moved farther (I don't think they know what mountain it came from.)

I thought the music was very good, and wondered if the subtext of the performers was deliberate on someone's part: Jewish violinist, Chinese cellist, black clarinetist, female Hispanic pianist. Some of the best musicians in the world, Americans. (And together they fight crime?)

I had my upper front bicuspids pulled when I was in college, and learned from the experience of having teeth pulled on both sides at the same time. When I had the wisdom teeth done a few years later, I did one side at a time, about a year apart. That way I had one side available to chew with.

LizzieL@18 -- Just a note in case your state doesn't have early voting. (I voted 4 weeks ago.) They are warning people not to wear campaign T-shirts, buttons etc when they actually try to vote. It is against the law the have campaign materials within 100 feet of a polling place and visible T-shirts count.

Buttons can be removed easily. A shirt might be a problem unless you have a jacket you can cover it with.

I'm learning to cook food I can eat, despite the fact that I was recently diagnosed with some annoying food allergies that make planning menus a challenge. (Cows' milk, egg yolks, and malt. There is malt flour in the vast majority of commercial baked goods. Breakfasts and desserts are problematic.)

Starting next week I will be doing it on a gas stove (not quite professional grade) after a lifetime of cooking on electric. The plumber just plumbed the kitchen for the gas stove today.

So sorry to hear this.

Best wishes for a boring hospital stay and a quick and complete recovery.

Lance & Nicole: I work at Jay Hill Farm stand at the Boulder farmer's market on Saturdays. Stop by and say Hi...

I'm just glad Windsor Dairy was at the market for a couple of months before I found out I am allergic to cow's milk: their cheese was wonderful when I could have it.

Last week I finally got the good news that goat milk is OK for me, so I can at least patronize Haystack Dairy again.

Many of these recipes sound delicious.

Unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with allergies to milk, eggs, and malt. (It's amazing how hard it is to find commercial baked goods that don't include one or more of those three ingredients.)

Also stringbeans (but not kidney beans) and shellfish, but at least stringbeans and shellfish aren't in EVERYTHING.

I'm still trying to figure out what I can still eat and jonesing for cheese like you wouldn't believe. I go back to the doctor next week and I'm going to insist on separate tests for goat and sheeps' milk

Ginger @27

And that differs from any other cat in a doorway how?

I suppose if they are all quantum cats, it may explain a lot.

Re Charlie @ 167 The url of the page that Konqueror is cranky about
is http://www.tor-forge.com/Tor.aspx. I suspected that I might be
missing a plugin needed to run it. Plugin support for Konqueror is a
bit marginal, (especially for 64-bit) and I don't have a lot of them
loaded.

I have to use Firefox for my banking because they use a Flash login
app for security (the mind boggles) and while I can watch YouTube on
Konqueror it chokes on the bank's app.

This is semi-OT, but ...

I wandered over to the Tor-Forge site and found that the little
clicky numbers to go to the next page of Tor books don't work in my
favorite browser.

This is Konqueror on 64-bit Linux (Kubuntu). The clickies work in Firefox, but I only use that browser when forced.

Yay.

I signed up for the newsletter the first week. And I've sent my email for the beta.

rasfw has been pretty unreadable for a while, and LiveJournals, while fun, are too fragmented.

This should be good.

Seth @ 173:
The ratio of lawsuits threatened on the Internet to those actually filed is approximately infinity to three.

That deserves to be a button or a sig or both.

re 285: celery stuffing:
creamcheese, a little milk to thin it very slightly and make it more spreadable, Worchestershire Sauce, sliced green olives. All stirred together.

On old time religion ...
I just had two guys come to the door. (1/2 mile for the nearest paved road and no vehicle in the driveway. I have to admit they are thorough.) Not sure if they were JW or Mormons, probably JW: when they mentioned the Bible I said "I'm Heterodox Shinto. Thank you, Good Day." And closed the door.

On a slightly related note; there is no vehicle in the driveway because my truck died at a stoplight on the way home from the airport last night. I'd like to thank the person who mentioned in the Hurricane thread that Costco carried crank-powered flashlights. They come in packages of two, so I put one in the truck, and it came in very handy last night.

I've put a reminder for Patrick on my blog :-)

Coincidentally, I went in for a cleaning and checkup this afternoon.

The TMJ that's been giving me hell for weeks unlocked this morning. On the one hand, it meant the dentist couldn't see the problem. On the other, it meant that I was able to accommodate the hygienist (and even the stupid bitewings, which are too big for my mouth) without a strong inclination toward homicide.

I have genetically bad teeth with weak biting surfaces, probably complicated by the water where I spent my childhood. My biting surfaces have not been enamel for years, but by keeping up with things I have avoided the kinds of infections that lead to root-canals.

Pseudo Jim mode: I read somewhere that tooth abscesses were a huge cause of death before the 20th century. And I think at least one of the skeletons featured in "Walking with Cavemen" died of one (It's been a couple of weeks since I last watched the series.).

Very Lucky 381: What in heaven's name were you doing driving the canyon that fast after the winter we've just had? Even the roads on the flat are full of potholes and disintegrating pavement.

And be sure to get yourself checked out thoroughly: my best friend's CU-student daughters are having long-term intermittent back and neck problems after being in accidents that were MINOR compared to what you described. Takes awhile for the symptoms to show up, too.

Regarding seat-belts on school buses.

My Mom was a school bus driver and was horrified at the thought of installing seatbelts on her bus: there would be nothing she could do to prevent the small minority of vicious thugs from using the buckles as weapons.

I was bullied on school buses (and the drivers, who were my Mom's friends and co-workers, were able to do very little) so I tend to share her feelings, even though I always wear seatbelts in any vehicle that provides them.

Regarding laced shoes in airplanes: someone should tell that to the people who keep providing more and more incentives against wearing laced shoes through airports.

Patrick #24 re: syntax checking html on a linux box. This is fairly easy using KDE tools if your site is actually xhtml (which your site is. I just performed the steps below

1. Load the optional XML widgets in the KATE browser.
2. Open the site you are worried about in the Konqueror web-browser.
3. Right click in the site and select "Open With... KATE
4.Wait while the page downloads and opens in Kate
5. Select XML/Validate XML on the top Kate menu bar
6. Click XML Checker Output in the bottom status bar, and drag the separator line up so you can see.

The output from performing these steps on this very page where I am inputting this is:

# line column message
1 26 44 validity error: No declaration for attribute REL of elem...link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="favicon.ico"

(I left out the pointies on the link quoted in the message to avoid recursion)

Sometimes it takes a little digging to figure out the cause of what it is complaining about: missing end-tags cause miss-matches for other end-tags, for example, but the messages generally help me decide where to look.

Hello --

I've been reading for a while, with much thankfullness for this site.

Regarding getting up at O-dark-thirty to start a large turkey:

When I was growing up we used to Thanksgiving or Christmas for twelve to twenty people. We did big turkeys. The routine for the turkey was: make the stuffing early the evening before.

Stuffing: giblets and other innards sauteed with sausage, onion and celery and run through a meatgrinder, mixed with Pepperidge Farm mix plus some plain bread and poultry seasoning, salt and pepper, soaked with stock made by simmering the neck.

Put the stuffing in the fridge until needed. If you're feeling industrious, tease the meat off the neck and give it to the dog or cat.

After the 11 o'clock news, stuff the turkey (both turkey and stuffing must be COLD) and put it into a fairly cool oven. (325?)

When you get up at 6 or so to let the dog out and give him his breakfast, (or if you start smelling the turkey enough to wake you up) turn off the oven. Let the turkey coast awhile, then when it seems done, take it out and let it rest in the roasting pan while you use the oven for other things. (Timing may be a bit different in self-cleaning ovens because they have better insulation.)

The turkeys were always juicy and delicious when we sat down to eat not long after noon.

Elyse

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