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Dinner last night
May. 8th, 2003 09:35 amI made dinner last night. I'm extremely pleased with it.
( food geeking )
( food geeking )
May. 8th, 2003
Random thoughts
May. 8th, 2003 10:19 amA Venus transit could be:
Trader Joe's didn't have flexible cutting boards. I shall have to find one somewhere else. *sigh*
What is the difference between dried plums and prunes? I bought some dried plums a couple of days ago, and they are like other dried fruits (apricots, peaches, etc). Prunes are such a different sort of animal (as it were). Is it just which kind of plum used, or is there a different process, too?
I finally got to see Pheromone's new do. Really nice.
Spam subject line otD: Fifty Five Most Wanted
Since there was nothing in the body of the email, I'm left wondering: 55 most wanted what? Jobs? Flavors of ice cream? Toys? Bathroom accessories? How can they leave me hanging like this!?
Phrase otD: swallow with impudence
- a celestial subway system, making sure planets and comets, meteors and suns, get to where they need to go, efficiently
- a carnivorous plant dealer's arrangements for shipments
- a tennis player's travel plans
- a reference to some fly-by-night sex operation
Trader Joe's didn't have flexible cutting boards. I shall have to find one somewhere else. *sigh*
What is the difference between dried plums and prunes? I bought some dried plums a couple of days ago, and they are like other dried fruits (apricots, peaches, etc). Prunes are such a different sort of animal (as it were). Is it just which kind of plum used, or is there a different process, too?
I finally got to see Pheromone's new do. Really nice.
Spam subject line otD: Fifty Five Most Wanted
Since there was nothing in the body of the email, I'm left wondering: 55 most wanted what? Jobs? Flavors of ice cream? Toys? Bathroom accessories? How can they leave me hanging like this!?
Phrase otD: swallow with impudence
Green haze/salad days
May. 8th, 2003 11:32 amI stopped at Mahoney's (a local garden store) last night. I had planned to get some herbs for the porch, and one or two for my office. I was overcome with the leaf quest, however, and succumbed to salad lust, as well. ( what I bought )
( destination: porch )
( other short green takes )
( Saturday herb sale, if anyone's interested )
( destination: porch )
( other short green takes )
( Saturday herb sale, if anyone's interested )
In the BBC news
May. 8th, 2003 12:35 pm(Can't seem to stop posting today...)
I thought Cambridge voting was confusing [1], but Wales apparently has a new wrinkle on things: two ballots, one for the candidate (magenta), one for the party (white). I don't quite understand why... (BBC story)
A Russian mathematician may have proved the Poincare Conjecture, though of course, there will be years of combing through the proof Dr Grigori Perelman has made (description of the Conjecture).
[1] Well, it is: you rank people, so you give someone your number 1 vote, someone else number 2, etc, if you want to, and once a candidate has enough votes to make it onto the city council, all the other people who gave that candidate their number 1 vote have their number 2 vote instead. And so on. Or at least, that's what I understand. This explains why the campaign signs around Cambridge all suggest giving Candidate X "your #1 vote." This system is apparently the darling of political theorists, and damned confusing for everyone else, including the Cambridge electorate. It also explains why Cambridge takes so long reporting election results.
I thought Cambridge voting was confusing [1], but Wales apparently has a new wrinkle on things: two ballots, one for the candidate (magenta), one for the party (white). I don't quite understand why... (BBC story)
A Russian mathematician may have proved the Poincare Conjecture, though of course, there will be years of combing through the proof Dr Grigori Perelman has made (description of the Conjecture).
[1] Well, it is: you rank people, so you give someone your number 1 vote, someone else number 2, etc, if you want to, and once a candidate has enough votes to make it onto the city council, all the other people who gave that candidate their number 1 vote have their number 2 vote instead. And so on. Or at least, that's what I understand. This explains why the campaign signs around Cambridge all suggest giving Candidate X "your #1 vote." This system is apparently the darling of political theorists, and damned confusing for everyone else, including the Cambridge electorate. It also explains why Cambridge takes so long reporting election results.