Free shit. Teehee.
From Craigslist:
Free Manure (Boxford)
Reply to: sale-972882312@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-12-29, 8:55AM EST
Free horse manure. You pickup/load = FREE; Loaded for you w/ tractor = $10/truckload; Delivery available. Call Jim @ xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Here’s another weird one.
@Date(y; m; d) supposedly resolves to the same thing as @Date(y; m; d; h; m; s) where h, m, and s are all equal to 0. Help says so, and subtracting one from the other results in 0.
However doing a calculation such as: @Modulo(@Integer(@Integer(maintextfield – @Date(2007; 12; 30))/86400);52)
… you get a different value than
@Modulo(@Integer(@Integer(maintextfield – @Date(2007; 12; 30; 0; 0; 0))/86400);52)
When subtracting the former from a date/time field in local time, the value changes early, in my case here 5 hours. Coincidentally the amount of my GMT shift.
However when subtracting the second from the same field the value changes as expected, as this shift magically disappears.
Whether the result should be in GMT or local time is irrelevant, but the two should be the same. And documented in help for that matter.
So no being a huge fruit eater, I had a pear in my fridge which developed some brown spots. No big deal, I thought. Just like bananas, just eat around the brown spots.
My tummy had some words with me late that night, and was quite angry in its protest.
Point well taken, tummy!
My game has been coming back lately. Not wholly, but I haven’t been sucking as bad as I have during this past slump of like a year or two. Some of it may be I’m fixing some bad habits I’ve developed (popping up, etc), or maybe it’s just coincidence. But, tonight I played out of my mind. I swept my opponent who was shooting well, even played some pretty good safeties on me. One game four turns in a row. But I was en fuego – kicking out every time, hitting my banks, running the cue ball really well, break outs on point. I even did a 1/2 ball width masse on 1/4 length of the table. And a bank to win the game. No run outs tonight, but came close each time.
This ain’t to say I’m awesome. Far from it. But it’s just so… exhilirating to have a good night. I haven’t felt like I played out of my mind like that since before I was bumped to a five. Tonight pool was fun again. Really really fun! I hope this lasts- it’s really nice to be in groove again.
So my ex bought me a meat CSA for Xmas back before she became ex, and one of the last items was a whole chicken. I know there’s a myriad of ways to cook a whole chicken, but I kept thinking of that oh so delicious chinese boiled chicken (白切雞) we had at China Pearl Quincy, and how I’d like to replicate it. The taste of the scallion was seeped into the chicken, which was moist and omg so good. We devoured it like a pack of wolves and licked our fingers clean.
So I looked around online and found a few recipes. It’s amazingly simple. I mostly followed this recipe
http://www.applepiepatispate.com/main-course/chinese-white-cut-chicken/
But since I wanted to infuse more scallion taste I used 8 stalks of scallion. I also only put in a few tablespoons of coriander. I was putzing around the kitchen so I didn’t realize what was normally a gentle simmer wasn’t doing anything, until I had almost reached the half hour mark. I cooked for another 15 minutes, and while the chicken is tasty, it was overcooked. Will have to not worry so much about undercooking and watch more closely next time.
Reminders for next time:
* Turn heat higher for a simmer in a large pot with a chicken in it.
* Even more scallion could be added, like another stalk.
* And some salt
* Maybe after I tune it, I could try it with more sugar
* Definitely wanna try with the coriander next time. Think it’ll give more full body
Commercials are commercials. Inherently there’s something fake about them, they’re usually vapid and entirely forgettable. However, once in a while something really special comes along. For me the first Sony Bravia commercial is really striking – it touches me on some level I can’t really explain. To this day when I am in a mood I search it out and watch it. While the next two were equally colorful, and just as cool, they don’t resonate as much with me.
There’s a clip out there that shows the making of this commercial, but I have purposefully not watched it. I think for me watching it would lose some of the magic.
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