While not as much fun as stringing together small sentences, you could try bugmenot.com which has a login and password for the LA Times.
Along with The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer I recommend Star Split by Kathryn Lasky. Both books have interesting science/ethics questions.
Mary Kay: I'm glad they were tasty. I wonder what the difference was? I always use a 1/4 cup.
Maybe it is time to make them again.
Nancy: I'm not sure about chocolate for Tallisker. It is such a personal taste decision. When I'm making test batches (you can make 1/2 batches and double batches), I start with a 71% bittersweet chocolate and then adjust the chocolate to sweeter or less sweet depending on my mood. I have used Scharffen Berger and Callebaut and an unnamed dark chocolate my husband brought from Belgium.
Jill: (beams)
Mary Kay: I've used several different single malts with good results every time. It was nice with Oban and lovely with Balvenie Doublewood 12 year. Laphroig was delicious but needs a strong chocolate which can hold its own. Oban is fine with a lighter chocolate, even a semisweet, but milk chocolate fades behind the stronger flavoured scotches.
Mary Kay: I did put together a lovely single malt truffle recipe a few years ago. Very lovely!
Single malt truffles
1/2 cup cream
12 oz of good quality bittersweet chocolate, in bits
4 tbs. butter, in bits, at room temp
1/4 cup single malt
Bring cream to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate until smooth. Stir in butter until blended. Stir in scotch.
Refrigerate for 1-2 hours. (or immediately pour over pound cake or ice cream)
Scoop into small balls. Roll in cocoa.
I send my blessings to counteract the curse of infinite moving.
Sara
When I get to the grind zone, I swear that next time I will hire movers but I have never hired movers because I convince myself that they are too expensive.
The year I left college, I packed all my years' accumulation of assorted goods into crates, trunks, boxes, and duffels. My ride was late by 12 hours and by the time he arrived I had thrown away all but one suitcase of essentials. The idea of dragging all that stuff in and out of cars and apartments overwhelmed me.
Onan is an unfortunate name for a company.
Teresa, where would plot blurbs fit in your list? I know very few people in non-computer life who read science fiction or fantasy. I give thanks once a year (at least) for Peter Woodring who donated scifi books to our school library. The librarian threw them away and I rescued them from the trash and found a whole new world. I find most of my new books by reading plot capsules in magazines, book jackets, and in the SFbook club magazines. Those few sentences really help when a favorite author writes two different styles of books and sappy romance set on a distant world isn't the kind I want.
Yesterday we saw a preview for the movie "A Series of Unfortunate Events". My daughters and I disagree over the series, they like the books and I find them boring. Eldest daughter, 11, said that what she likes best about the books is that the villains are not stupid. Lots of young adult and children's books, she says, portray villains as one dimensional and lead readers to the false assumptions that being a victim is due to stupidity and smart people are never evil.
That the books made her think to that level somewhat redeem them to me.
Tom: You can buy it in capsules at natural food stores.
Come go with me to yonder valley where we once stood beneath the tree, where we once planned our life together. I can't forget; come go with me....
Ah! (g) I suppose that explains why I couldn't find the book online. I don't trust the furniture; I'll rest on my, er, laurels.
Fluff:
Today I was trolling at a bookstore for something new-to-me and I saw a book which had a metallic blue cover with techy shadow font and the spine was impossible for me to read. I had to take the book off the shelf to figure it out. I think it said "Mobile Suite: Gundun" (not in the graphics area). The cover made me dizzy.
Tom: I agree that Snape is not evil but I also think he is not suited to teaching. He could not have chosen to be a teacher; I believe Dumbledore asked him, and keeps him, there for other reasons than Snape's teaching skills.
I didn't know they gave merit badges for fucking.
Melissa,
I found these discussions of the origin of "chinese auction". No site I had access to had the answer, though I got a hint that the ALA had an explanation in their Journal. http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusapubs/rusq/specialfeatures/indextoexchange/indexexchange.htm
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0702
http://www.plateaupress.com.au/wfw/chinesea.htm
http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss1.asp?Num=2133
Mary Kay: I'm not that old, 41, but we didn't have a tv until the 70's. Some of our friends had televisions and my sisters and I would spend each afternoon at a different house so we could watch the 2 hours of kids tv that were aired every day. The pathetic part (as if that weren't pathetic enough) was that the two 30 minutes shows, Hercules and Sinbad, aired the same episodes all week long.
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