Thanks for the soup suggestions. When I posted my question I was still all numb from anaesthetics and thinking 'This isn't too bad... i can deal with this.' Since then it seems that I must have left the energy to cook at the surgery. There's a kitchen with ingredients but too much blah to make stuff. The bag of frozen edamame is a good cold pack for the swelling, though.
Lying on the couch catching up with Dexter is about the best I can manage today.
I did drag myself to the supermarket to pick up a few Warhols to see me through the next couple of days but I will keep that cauliflower cheddar link for next winter or encounter with this level of dentistry (hopefully never again unless future budgets allow for an implanted replacement for what I lost today).
I had my wisdom teeth out many years ago but they were seen to be a problem from an x-ray before they caused any trouble. I have had post-operative dental pain before but never had a toothache before this last week. Sometimes no amount of brushing and flossing is enough. I did all the right things but something managed to sneak below gum level (possibly even pushed by floss) and the decay got to the roots directly.
Caroline: I doubted anyone would really be unsettled by the idea of oral surgery* but I wanted an excuse to post the link to a cute kitty video... not that we ever really need an excuse to post them, it just seemed better than "Oh, by the way... kitty!"
* Though the image of a young and rather cute Japanese-Australian woman leaning over me with bloody extraction forceps will be burned into my mind for a while.
For anyone unsettled by the thought of what I just wrote, here's a kitten being fed with chopsticks.
While we're talking about soups, does anyone have any recipes for something soupy that lacks chunks and large amounts of (hot) spices and is both tasty and nourishing? I just had a molar extracted and really don't feel up to chewing anything but figure I'll feel the need to eat some time after the taste of blood goes away.
Which leads inevitably to lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and punk.
Now I wish I was doing NaNoWriMo. Some kind of foodie mystery with attitude... or is it edge, I can never remember...
For those who don't like punk, there's always punk egg sausage and punk. That's not got much punk in it.
Jon @ 166: There was a bit of a punk revival in the late 1990's. If anyone gets nostalgic for that will we see the rise of PunkPunkPunk?
Will radical piercers start writing Puncturepunk?
At the very least, we should be ready for Dead Horse Punk. I'm sure we could flog that for a few bucks.
Bruce @ 372: A proper timeline for Primer The XKCD version isn't far off.
Julie @ 369: It does follows the movies rather than the books but the title of the piece is Movie Narrative Charts.
I'm not NaNoIng this year. I have a couple of very major photographic projects due in a couple of weeks and barely time to think of anything else. There is a project I really want to write. I'm not sure if it's a serious novel or a silly bit of fluff yet but I am looking forward to finding out. Maybe next year.
One bit of advice for new NaNoers: If you're not used to typing a lot every day, look out for your wrists. My first NaNo attempt collapsed in a painful heap after nearly 20,000 words when my wrists began to hurt whenever I wrote. I use a keyboard a bit every day at work and home but never as intensely as those days of about 1800 words each. Since then I have adopted a very comfortable gel-filled wrist rest and the only pain I get from writing a lot is in my head when the urge to procrastinate bumps into the desire not to piss off editors.
It's probably too late to change your writing habits for this NaNoWriMo but, if you're a Mac user, I definitely recommend Scrivener. It has bells, it has whistles and it gets them out of the way when you want it to. I find that the way it ties the planning and organising bits together with the actual writing bits allows me to skip back and forth between parts of the project and work around pieces that aren't coming together yet. I can keep putting words on disc when a more linear approach would leave me stuck waiting for ideas to gel or for the right words to... something.
Serge: I haven't seen it but others have
Bruce @ 917: Re: ...gung vg jnf nyy Cevln'f vqrn, abg fbzrguvat Gbcure fghpx vagb ure urnq. Vs vg unq orra Gbcure, ur jbhyq abg unir orra fb furyy-fubpxrq jura ur sbhaq gur obql jvgu gur xavsr va vg. (Latest Dollhouse episode spoilers)
Naq lrg gur rcvfbqr ortvaf jvgu gur furyy-fubpxrq naq oybbql Gbcure ercrngvat "V jnf bayl gelvat gb uryc ure" whfg orsber gur svefg synfuonpx. V qba'g xabj jurgure gung zrnaf ur nqqrq fbzrguvat gb uryc gur sbezreyl qrsrafryrff Cevln xvpx Abyna'f nefr, abg rkcrpgvat vg gb tb gung sne be jurgure ur ybnqrq hc na hazbqvsvrq, bevtvany crefbanyvgl Cevln naq gbyq ure gur shyy fgbel orsber fraqvat ure bhg naq yrg entr qb gur erfg. V pna frr vg jbexvat rvgure jnl ohg jungrire unccrarq, Gbcure srryf erfcbafvoyr.
Xopher @ 898: I think everyone was glad. The question is, was the inclination to xvyy uvz jubyyl uref be fbzrguvat Gbcure nqqrq gb gur zvk?
Carrie @ 838: The details of how the crows are trained are available here.
Coins and peanuts are provided together but crows have to move coins aside to get at peanuts on a feeder tray. Coins fall off tray into funnel in device. After a while, the initial offering is switched to only coins with peanuts dispensed when coins dropped into funnel. Later still, a few coins are scattered on the ground around the device. By this time, crows know that coins are needed to acquire peanuts and they go in search of them when the initial supply runs out.
Clifton @736: Alas "Yay! Free stuff!" quickly gave way to disappointment: You must install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to purchase albums and Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.
Fidelio: Is there nothing we cannot (or will not) do to that poem?
This is just to say
I have parodied
the poem
that we reuse
so many times
and which
you were probably
hoping never
to see posted again
Forgive me
it was silly but
so easy
and so obvious.
Re: cameras and aircraft. I'm sort of sorry I said anything... and yet, I'm with Terry on the love of cameras. For me, sites like dpreview.com are verging on porn. I would love to play with one of those ultra-fast things with a sound or infra-red beam trigger, some fragile items, and a largeish patch of concrete.
On an unrelated note, there's a joke in my head that just isn't coming together involving the sidelight about 100 mile undersea snot blobs and a little-known sequel to Atlas Shrugged called Poseidon Sneezed (and maybe a conclusion to the trilogy called Prometheus Farted). Maybe someone else can do something with that. I know there needs to be a hundred page speech about how sometimes it's OK to be altruistic toward people if they have a really bad cold and why isn't there any aspirin in this damned gulch.
Earl @ 566: The beastie is not so much a "camera" as it is a charge-coupled device image sensor deployment platform.
And so's your m... sorry, so's my trusty Canon.1 Light goes in one end, images come out the other. It even has a standard Nikon F-type lens mount. Ain't no other word for it - that's a camera.
1 CMOS actually, rather than CCD, but I love it just the same.
Terry: I too thought it unbelievable but google tells me otherwise. Here's one example it found.
Raphael @ 109 & Tehanu @ 99: It seems to me that if you really want to see a wingnut's head explode, the money should be donated to a charity that no Republican could be seen to criticise publicly. A charity that not only does good but which visibly supports things that the most winged nuts pretty much claim ownership of. I suggest these people. Could even Limbaugh the Hutt call donating to them a bad idea and get away with it?
Serge: Sontarans are short and stocky but muscular. They're from a high-gravity world originally. They look a bit tubby in places but it's all muscle and armour.
If anything, Rush resembles a Hutt.
"Everybody must get an extra charge out of sex if they wear socks to bed--because it works for me"
Many men have fallen through the sock gap...
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