For notifying friends of what car you're in, you can text messages to Twitter and they'll make it online as long as there is cell service when you send it.
There's another character from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon called Susie. So a combination of Calvin and Susie would be a rather horrifying failure of a transmogrifier. Would it be that Susan Calvin doesn't feel vouchsafed for grace in this incarnation? And what is damnation to a robot? I think we need Dante to illuminate the robot inferno for us.
Well, I am a female windows systems admin. I feel the same way about skills I haven't had the chance to develop, like scripting. I'm pretty good at troubleshooting and solving problems. And I learn quickly. (And I have a minor in math so I don't suck at it.) Anyway, I can understand why more women don't go into the sysadmin field. From my perspective, the hours are long and the reward is little. For me, it's not about the money (although I can't say I'd take a pay cut). When something goes wrong it's usually very noticeable and unpleasant and most people aren't grateful for the rest of the 99.9% uptime. I am fortunate to work at a place where people are usually pretty grateful when you can easily solve their problems. But there aren't many places like that.
Several thoughts occur to me here. First, this is an elective course which means that students aren't required to take it so these parents could simply tell their kids not to take the course or not sign their course selections until they select something different. Second, I read the beginning of "The Crack Cocaine Diet" and high school youth talk that way. It's really naive to think that these young people don't hear those words or don't know about drugs. To the contrary, they do on both counts. And I liked the writing in that story. Third, this is why teaching critical thinking skills isn't happening. People are too afraid to address the issues head on. If I were a parent of one of these kids, I'd ask my child what they thought about the idea of using crack cocaine to lose weight and maybe even talked about young women and self image, etc. I'd use the opportunity to inform them of the risks of the use of crack cocaine, etc. These are huge missed opportunities and it shows. Instead of pretending that the world is a fair and wonderful place, we should be facing these hard realities along with our children and being true to ourselves and to them. I do have a daughter. She is 23 years old and I would *not* have been horrified if she had read that story but we probably would have talked about the things I mentioned above.
Pittsburgh also has at least one Kosher Chinese restaurant. There are also a few Korean and Sushi places which are pretty good. I learned to avoid the more far reaching combination places when I ate Mexican food at a Chinese/Mexican place in Greenwich Village years ago.
LMB MacAlister @37 This is true and I'm proud of it.
Steak fries are large french fries (which come in smaller crinkle cut and shoe string sizes) but smaller than potato quarters. I could best describe them as a potato sliced lengthwise in quarter to half inch thickness and then sliced in half again lengthwise. Velveeta is the solid form of Cheez Whiz (In the continuum of states of processed cheese, I don't want to know what gaseous is like.) and a lower quality of what is called "American" Cheese here and comes in one solid block wrapped in foil and boxed.
Cheese Whiz is a seekrit ingredient in lots of tasty stuff. I have a blue cheese dip recipe that calls for 8 oz cream cheese, 8 oz cheez whiz, 1/4 cup blue cheese dressing and 1/4 cup beer whirled together in a food processor. It's so popular, I usually double the recipe. Occasionally, I'll add crumbled blue cheese. People, who don't normally like blue cheese, like this dip. I usually serve it in a round loaf of rye bread with the middle cut out and cubed for dipping.
My daughter's hamster, Chubby Bunny, is very old for a hamster and, the other day, I heard a dismayed, "Oh No!" from my daughter and my first thought was that she had discovered the hamster dead. It turns out that she thought the hamster had died, but it was, in fact, very sound asleep and roused when my daughter opened the cage up to investigate further. We were both relieved. Still, we know that the hamster's time will come. I don't know if there will be another hamster fur-grandbaby. My daughter also has a gerbil, which is younger, called Skittles. My condolences on your loss of Hiro. May Agnes Margaret have a long life with you.
Speaking of the long cooking time filling the house with scrumptious aroma and turning vegetarians back to meat: I can always get my daughter to eat brisket the way I make it --even in her vegetarian phases.
One beef brisket (not corned-beef) placed fat side up in a roasting pan covered with crushed garlic then thin slices of onion. Cover the pan with foil and bake at 200-250 degrees F for 8-12 hours. Remove from oven, uncover and remove the onion slices (discard them or eat them, it's up to you) slice and enjoy.
I appreciate what JJ Fozz said because it brought into focus, for me, the differences between my sister-in-law's family and my husband's family which has been a source of contention and conflict for both families. (My sister-in-law being married to my husband's brother.) Which means I now understand that dysfunction (although it is comparatively mild). I also appreciate that there are those here who really need to shut out the people in their lives who did them grave harm while under the guise of relation. (Sometimes blood is more toxic than water --to paraphrase a saying.) I hope that those individuals have found in some way or another a supportive situation and recognize that this is supposed to be a supportive community. Coincidentally, September 20 marked 14 years since my mother, who was the source of some pain for me, passed away. I was fortunate to have made some peace with the situation before that happened. And have continued the healing on my own and with my father.
I celebrate those who can and do live completely voluntarily and happily on their own with no spouses, significant others or children, etc. by choice. One of my good friends is such a person.
I leave you with this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that helped me along:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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