The pumpernickel (see last entry) turned out tasty but not particularly elegant as a loaf of bread. A bit dense and not well-formed as a loaf, I can only call it a noble failure. I’ve had similar problems the other times I used that particular recipe and I’m tempted to find and try something new.
My new 320GB hard drive arrived today. $110.00 via amazon (sold through them for Office Depot); I ordered it Monday and it arrived Thursday, but I didn’t go in until today. It works fine so far, and will be a great replacement as a location to store my comics. It’s a slender case (a LaCie “Porsche” model), USB 2.0, though I wish it had firewire. I’ll survive, though.
Poem of the Day:
“Seenot”
Wenn die Kraniche bellen
Auf den tanzenden Wellen,
Muß das Schifflein zerschellen.Und die tausende Raketen,
Die beleuchten das täten,
Würden grausam zertreten.Wer das jemals erlebet,
An den Zähnen erbebet
Und ins Jenseits entschwehöbet!–By Kurt Schwitters
Tonight’s wine: a 2003 Bulls Blood from Eger. Tasty red that gets much better the longer it sits out. Starts watery and fruity but not sweet. Only later does it linger. It becomes fuller, but doesn’t have the tannins of the strongest and driest reds. I’ve been drinking this for years and it’s one of my preferred dry cheap reds.
Music 1: Almost done with Joe Satriani … that’s a lot of Joe I had.
Bread: I made another loaf of the no-knead bread. Similar taste, similar density, etc. I let it sit in a warmer location this time, and this morning (after 8-10 hours) it had risen a lot more than the first batch, I think. But after dumping it from the bowl this afternoon/evening it did increase in volume, but not dramatically. The finished loaf is about the same size as the first. I used a bit more yeast this time.
Heroes: Great episode. It gave Ted a new companion and created a team out of a few disgruntled types. I just rewatched the Kelly Macdonald (aka: hot schoolgirl from Trainspotting; reporter in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, etc.) episode of Alias (season 4), and so the Peter and Isaac confrontation-resolution reminds me of that. Watch it and you’ll know what I mean, not that the context is the same. It’s a common trope in any two-person fight that tangentially involves a third person.
With a friend I was discussing the horror that is Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark, one of the worst movies I’ve ever had the pleasure of viewing, a movie where you ask, “What the f**k is Christian Slater doing here?” It is, so I argued, probably the low point of Tara Reid’s hardly stellar career.
His question: if Alone in the Dark is the *low point* … what is the high point of her career? Bunny Lebowski?
Jyoti wrote, asking for help with her German translation homework from me and Corina; the course is basically a German-for-reading-knowledge course in which they translate parts of Kant’s 1st Critique (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]).
… so claims an article at NewScientistTech.
First: what’s up with the mixed-upper-lower-case, no-spaces-between-words naming convention? NewScientistTech? Why not New Scientist Tech, or Newscientisttech, or New-scientist Tech?
I have a thing for hyphens, one might notice.
Growing up “The Links” were the friends of the family; Mrs. Link had been a high school friend of my aunt, who isn’t really my aunt, for she’s my father’s first cousin, about 11 years older than he, and sort of like an older sister to him, since they were both only children, although her other cousin, Joyce, lived with her for a while after her (Joyce’s) parents died. Or something like that. Thus my “aunt” is really my first cousin, once-removed. And “The Links” are extended family.
They had four kids, 3 sons and 1 daughter, and it’s likely that they grew up with plenty of missing Link jokes, just as a guy I knew, S. Geiger, suffered through Geiger Counter jokes. I once made a Jin Rummy comment to a fellow-student in college. Thereafter I gave up such amazingly unfunny puns. As a kid I grew up hearing Sour Krause far too often.
The thing is … I love sour kraut. Tasty tasty tasty …
