Damn, I killed the thread.
To echo John Stanning at @12 -- what is the purpose of the bag? Does it make it taste better/different? Or something that falls under 'this is the way we do it around here'?
The concept of brown-bagging apple pie feels vaguely heretical, actually. It's pie.
@ 13/14 -- This makes me wonder if there is such a thing as moon(child) pie made with apples.
(In retrospect, "tin kudzu" works better.)
Reminds me of shiny conspiracy hats ... tinkudzu? (And when you successfully root them out, foiled kudzu!)
Earl Cooley III, 116:
But do you butter your elite crusts?
Debbie: That is indescribably awesome. I don't suppose it would be possible to knit a similarly decorative bra out of liquorice shoelace, and thus make a set? I think it would require crochet, though, and how do I go about finding a hook large enough to work with shoelace liquorice? Hmm.
Further to my previous comment: would said Old Ones enact revenge if said edible book were to be knitted in strawberries and cream?
For fun timewasters, the 'Videos being watched right now' feature on YouTube's front page is my favourite of the moment. I've discovered all sorts of things through clicking on whichever one sounds the most interesting, including the fact that from three to four in the morning it is someone somewhere's preferred time to watch the entire backlog of the Aussie soap opera Home and Away episode by episode. It's as though I'm eavesdropping on someone's determination to Get. Through. It. Damnit! piece by piece, and so far, their progress has been remarkable. I keep wanting to cheer them on somehow, but I can't, so I just wildly encourage my screen instead and hope it gets through somehow. Illogical, I know.
P J Evans: no wai! No, wait, srsly, there's a pattern for that? Did they specify a kind of liquorice?
Diatryma, Sarah S --
Same. I've been reading the last four or so threads for about an hour, and came looking for the Open Thread for some relief, and nope.
I think, given the ugliness of this, and that there's still two months to go, there needs to be instituted some kind of rough 2:1 ratio where for every two political threads there's a lighthearted one where politics May Not Tread (possible exception for wit), because it's just going to get worse. I'm not saying that ML will devolve into flamewars everywhere all the time, but thread spillover is known to happen, and wearying the moderators and I think it would help if there was simultaneously somewhere to detach and recover, an ongoing series of somewheres. (Open Threads don't quite work for me either, because they by definition are open to electionwank and while it's known that you can trip in with a pun and hopefully restore some kind of amiability, tempers are running and will run so high that I think for most people that's just not going to happen.)
abi, you do sound exhausted. How about something food-related? Knitting-related? Edible yarn? (Does edible yarn even exist, and if so, would one use it? I can picture someone-or-other knitting a life-size Tardis out of said yarn, but would you be able to consume the entire Gallifreyan time-space-etc. continumn? And similarly, it's one thing to knit a Necronomicon, but if one were to eat it, would one find themselves consumed by evil in turn?)
D'oh, my last post was link-trapped. Anyway, just as I sent that through, the camera in Luling (south-west Orleans, I think?) went down. So we can assume that they've lost power there, too, and both the others are stalling badly.
NOLA.com is also running excellent reporting and announcing that it's definitely downgraded to a CAT2.
Twitter slowed in the last few hours and is now giving over-capacity messages.
Things I know so far:
1) NOLA levees are holding.
2) Power outages estimated 130,000+ in Orleans area, 45,000+ Southern Lousiana; most of Houma and surrounding area has definitely lost power.
3) CNN's live feeds (found here) require a plugin and they don't work for most people; there is a poor-quality audioless stream of all three here. Webcams are better, although they have a tendency to freeze and flicker offline for a few minutes at a time every now and then. The three most reliable at the moment are The Storm Report here, Severe Studios' ChaseCam here (best feed by far) and a relaxing feed of wind being windy from a house in Luling here.
4) There are six feeds of local hurricane coverage in one page here from WGNO, WWL WDSU, WVUE out of New Orleans and WBRZ from Baton Rouge.
5) According to information from locals, the surge started as of roughly fifteen minutes ago.
6) Reports vary, but it is thought that Gustav is now well out of CAT4, with some placing it as CAT2. Consensus is a weak CAT3.
Better one from (I think?) Gulfport, here; I gather they're stormchasers, and they're looking worried.
@George Smiley: That cam's down; according to the guy running it at his twitter feed (@rezin8) the power's down, the router's battery went out, and they've lost internet.
There's another live feed in Lulling, west of New Orleans. Wind's picking up.
Nola.com's got some pretty comprehensive front-page coverage going as of a couple hours ago. Gustav'still CAT 4, and last I heard the track's centering on New Orleans.
John Stanning @ 98: I have vision issues and it's been my experience too that sans-serif fonts are much easier. I would use Arial if I didn't have an irrational hatred for it, so I'm currently using Tahoma.
Which brings me to my Open Thread question: Tahoma is fine at the various sizes I need -- anywhere from 18pt to 42pt depending on the day -- but it's becoming a bit, well, same-y. Are there other sans-serif fonts that can scale like that and remain readable?
+ Books which fill you with a burning urge to fix the plot by rewriting them yourself.
+1 Books which fill you with a burning urge to fix the plot by means of a daydream wherein your self-insert will be able to command the characters' attention long enough to lecture them on the value of common sense.
+2 Books which fill you with the burning urge to burn them because you can't think of a way to fix them even with the assistance of Mary Sue.
Well, shit. I hope they can get their reserves in order.
Debbie: I can't decide whether to watch or not. On the one hand, spectacle. On the other hand, principle.
J.K.Richard @ 81:
Might be a bad idea. Americans are self-reporting being very unpopular in Canada right now.
What is the song? It's beautiful.
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