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So, I roasted a chicken last week and had a good bit of it left over, even after eating chicken and potatoes all week, and needed something to do with it. I figured, since it was mostly dark meat left (which I don't like to eat most times), soup was a viable option. Thus, searched the internet and came up with this little gem: chicken soup with brown rice and ginger. I made a few modifications - 2 chicken thighs and legs, instead of breasts, half low-sodium chicken broth and half water, and curry powder instead of the red pepper flakes (b/c I didn't have any) - it gives the same effect, and i used regular ole boring American cabbage b/c it was half the price of the Chinese cabbage. *g* Early taste test shows promise... sadly, I need to wash a bowl before I can eat it... unless I use the giant mug I have instead. XD Mirrored from the original entry at Dreamwidth. Reply there using your own Dreamwidth account or OpenID!
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I <3 Sudoku puzzles. I've finished at least 2 fulls books of 300 puzzles each over the last few years, plus several from an online calendar from a couple years ago. I have like 3 books still and this years calendar. A co-worker at my previous job got me hooked on them and I've stayed w/ 'em ever since. Yeah, I even have a Sudoku app on my phone. It's harder for me to do them on the phone b/c I'm 'visual' with my puzzle solving and need to 'see' things and I can't write on my phone, but it's okay. I do pretty well. **************** Since there's no chance I can write significantly about Sudoku puzzles (it's kind of like giving a 3 minute extemporaneous speech about cinder blocks*), I'll chat a bit about a show I've been re-watching. The SentinelFirst - I hadn't realized how many of the guest stars on it had also been on either MacGyver or Stagate SG-1. This isn't really surprising, considering all three were filmed in Vancouver (MacGyver only partially). It's fun though - doing the 'hey! s/he was on X!' game. Also - filming locations - again, many shared locations with any of the other shows/movies filmed in Hollywood North. Then we get to the episode I'm on now - "The Real Deal" - oh, Robert Vaughn, y u so PITA everywhere u go? Jessalyn Gilsig is in this one too (you might know her as Will Schuster's ex-wife on Glee). I've got 2 episodes after this one before I'm finished with this series run. Then I'll need something else to watch. Hmmmm. Help me out - what should I watch? * a classmate had to do this in high school during our lesson-segment on forensics - the speaking version, not the police investigation versionMirrored from the original entry at Dreamwidth. Reply there using your own Dreamwidth account or OpenID!
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So, the OTW's most recent link round-up post [ http://otw-news.dreamwidth.org/116102.html] was about female sports fans. That's totally cool - except that I kind of have an issue with lumping 'sports fans' and 'people in sport fandom' into the same bucket b/c I don't think they're the same thing (and I'll explain why later). And what I'm gonna mention here had nothing to do with their links, the links just got me thinking when one of the stories was about buying awesome sports gear. Why why why why WHYTHEEVERLOVINGFUCK do merchandisers think that female fans of sports or a team or a player need to have goddamned PINK jerseys/t-shirts/whatever? WHY? Like a chic-fan can't totally love the, oh, I don't know, ACTUAL COLORS for the team! Seriously, I do NOT want a fucking PINK Dallas Stars hockey jersey with ANY of the players' names on it. Why? B/c their goddamned colors are GREEN, GOLD and BLACK - with a bit of white sometimes. NO PINK. Not one lick of pink! There is totally an exception clause for Breast Cancer Awareness, but that is IT! There should NOT be an all-pink jersey. That's silly. And no, don't make 'em kiddie-sized either. If the little girl in the family likes the team, let her wear the team colors. Don't tell her that b/c she's a girl she has to wear the 'girlie' hockey sweater, b/c none of the players are doing that, plus it's offensive and gender stereotyping and annoying. Really, was there someone out there who wrote to sports merchandisers and said 'You know what sports needs? Pink stuff for girlz!'? Really? Did someone do that? Somehow, I don't think so. I think some moron marketing asshat said 'Hey, you know how we can get the girlfriends of these guys to come to the games and buy our shit? MAKE IT PINK! ALL GIRLS LOVE PINK!' Which, as 'girls' know, just ain't true. I hate pink. And I sure as hell don't want it on my sports stuff. (Again, Breast Cancer Awareness exception clause (TM)). Now, maybe I'm a little 'girly' and watch some hockey for the hotness of the hotties, but I also love the game, I know the rules and what the positions are and other such mechanics that 'guys' would know. I can totally explain icing and off-sides. And, even tho I hate it with a passion, I can explain how the shootout works (and why I think it's bullshit). So, I am just as much a 'fan' of hockey as any 'guy' and those marketing assholes can fucking bite me with their goddamned pink shit. Now, for the whole 'fan' vs. 'fandom' thing - this is all my POV, YMMV: To me, being a sports fan and being part of sports fandom are 2 very different things. As a 'fan', I follow my fave teams and players and go to games and make pretty wallpapers from the photos I take and stuff. I have posters and hockey pucks and autographs and the like. I'm a fan of hockey and I collect things hockey and generally do 'fan' stuff. (Sometimes obsessively, which is why being 'obsessed' is not a fan vs. fandom distinction word.) However, to be in 'sports fandom', to me, means going in a little different direction and writing fanfic and getting all into stuff like that, like I would for [H]ouse or MacGyver and stuff. This isn't a bad thing - people can do this type of thing if they want, but I don't. It's the same for a TV show or a movie - I'm a fan of, say, Glee, but I'm not *in* the Glee 'fandom'. I don't get all up in the message boards and the fic and analyzing the show and chatting with people about the themes and arguing all sorts of things about it, b/c I'm just not that invested. However, I will roll all in the BtVS conversations and argue that Buffy treated Spike (and most of her BF's) like garbage and have all sorts of conversations and write fic and make icons and all that stuff. * Being a Fan: watching and enjoying the show/program/hockey game/whatev and totally having of opinions about things, but not always uber!invested in discussing with the world * Being in the Fandom: getting all up in that shit and throwing down with the best of 'em and making sure I'm all over the news and writing the fic and making the graphic things and all that Maybe it's just me, but this is a pretty important distinction - both IRL and in internet social circle things too - and it kinda bugged me that the two are conflated in the links post. (Actually, they always are, no idea why today it bugged me more than others.) B/c it's like saying 'hey, if you're all uber!into this thing, we totally want your input on our super awesome wiki, but if you're just casually into it, we don't care so much'. And while that may not be what they're saying at all, it kind of came across to me that way when I read it tonight. Mirrored from the original entry at Dreamwidth. Reply there using your own Dreamwidth account or OpenID!
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This could be appealing for several reasons: * you want to hear Jim Butcher talk * you're too lazy to read the first chapter on jim-butcher.com on your own * you love audiobooks * you've heard Jim read before and find it highly amusing Whatever the reason, if you want to hear Jim read the first chapter of "Turn Coat", visit The Butcher Block - the podcast related to all things Jim Butcher. Then return tomorrow and Friday for chapters 2 and 3, then the following 2 Tuesdays for 4 and 5. If you'd rather read the first three chapters yourself, hit this link instead. Current Mood:  amused
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So, we're testing on Dreamwidth and I set up a post initially as a random 'fake' meme for us to play with. Well, then it turned into 'can we make comments thread'? Followed shortly thereafter by 'can we make comments paginate'? That was great - we got to page 3 or so. Well, then we decided we needed to test comment limits - aka: How many comments can we put onna post before it asplode?! The dev's said that 5000 is the limit before the system makes you CAPTCHA each time you post (then it's 10,000, just like on LJ). So, inna IRC chat,  synecdochic asked if I *really* wanted folks to spam that entry. I told her 'yes - really', so she posted this entry in her journal to start off some friendly spamming... then it was posted on lol_meme on JF, which means - yeah, LOTS and LOTS of comments! To be honest, it was an amusing, yet interesting experiment to watch. I literally watched it go from 3 pages to about 20 in under 30 minutes. I took my dog outside for 2 minutes and came back to about 3 new pages. We got random shit comments, recipes, feedback on the site scheme and other aspects, number sequences, part of the alphabet, random facts, pieces of fanfic, questions about nothing, memers ranting about non-memers not knowing how to thread the meme correctly, synecdochic 's random graphs of the server output, cat macros, poetry, pages of lorem ipsum, you name it! It went on for 83 pages of comments. (And yes, I turned off e-mail notifications!) The only thing I didn't see was a Rick-roll and I was strangely disappointed by that. Then I got to page 83 and Rick-roll in text!But, if you wanna know how to make play dough, you've now got the recipe! =) They hit 5000 comments about 0500 this morning! (Me, I was in bed asleep!) And yes, I did scan through all 83 pages of comments - just to see what was there! Folks can still comment if they'd like, but they'll have to CAPTCHA each time. Okay, that's not true - the system is currently set to max at 5000 comments. When we turn on the other limit, we'll get it going again! All-in-all, a successful test - of a lot of things! The servers took a bit of a beating and we freaked out our sysadmin a little, but DW persevered swimmingly! That - that was fun! Current Mood:  giddy
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