random procrastination....
Feb. 17th, 2008 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanBest spam header: PASTI_UMMMPHH...!_PRODUK_HEBAT,_PELUANG_HEBA... Doesn't that just make you want to click and open it?
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Many years ago, while teaching in the Specific Northwest, I was given a hand-blown glass globe by my students, all blues and greens like the ocean. I came out this morning to find Boomer sitting right next to it, peering down intently into the top of the globe (it has a cast iron stand it rests on). All he needed was a little white turban on the top of his head, and I could have been charging fees for him to read your future...
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For those of you who are dark chocolate snobs, I refer you to Dark May Be King, but Milk Chocolate Makes a Move in the New York Times. It also says out loud what I've long thought -- the percentage of cacao means nothing in terms of quality, because “Seventy percent of bad cacao is still 70 percent.” Good chocolate, be it dark, milk or white, is good chocolate. Bad chocolate is mehphehbleh.
And one bit I did not know: "Milk chocolate is the solid form of hot chocolate, popular in Europe for 200 years before a Swiss confectioner, Daniel Peter, managed to make it into a solid in the 1870s. After years of disastrous experiments with cheese, butter and goat’s milk, he hit on using the condensed milk recently invented by his compatriot Henri Nestlé to serve as infant formula."
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EtA: another very interesting article, if only for the line "her maverick MacGyver-meets-Dr. Ruth approach," is Building Organs even the Prudish Can Handle", about training doctors to correctly examine and diagnose ailments of primary and secondary sexual organs, where they might be too uncomfortable to do a proper exam otherwise. Very interesting article.
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Right. Back to work, me.
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Many years ago, while teaching in the Specific Northwest, I was given a hand-blown glass globe by my students, all blues and greens like the ocean. I came out this morning to find Boomer sitting right next to it, peering down intently into the top of the globe (it has a cast iron stand it rests on). All he needed was a little white turban on the top of his head, and I could have been charging fees for him to read your future...
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For those of you who are dark chocolate snobs, I refer you to Dark May Be King, but Milk Chocolate Makes a Move in the New York Times. It also says out loud what I've long thought -- the percentage of cacao means nothing in terms of quality, because “Seventy percent of bad cacao is still 70 percent.” Good chocolate, be it dark, milk or white, is good chocolate. Bad chocolate is mehphehbleh.
And one bit I did not know: "Milk chocolate is the solid form of hot chocolate, popular in Europe for 200 years before a Swiss confectioner, Daniel Peter, managed to make it into a solid in the 1870s. After years of disastrous experiments with cheese, butter and goat’s milk, he hit on using the condensed milk recently invented by his compatriot Henri Nestlé to serve as infant formula."
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EtA: another very interesting article, if only for the line "her maverick MacGyver-meets-Dr. Ruth approach," is Building Organs even the Prudish Can Handle", about training doctors to correctly examine and diagnose ailments of primary and secondary sexual organs, where they might be too uncomfortable to do a proper exam otherwise. Very interesting article.
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Right. Back to work, me.
