'Conviction (1)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cereal to add: above, when I mentioned the whole "if I don't do stuff it doesn't get done" I was talking about my family and non-Buffista friends.
Buffistas organize! They have a mailing list!
God, now I am terrified that I am being passive aggressive all over Natter.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that Schwarzenegger's administration has circulated a videotape package masquerading as a news report on the governor's proposal to roll back labor regulations that require employers to give their employees half-hour lunch breaks within the first five hours of their shifts. Several California TV stations ran the report as news, offering their viewers a one-sided, government-financed view of Schwarzenegger's proposal.
The "masquerading as a news report" is worse because after the Armstrong Williams thing our government appears to be getting into the business of paid propaganda, instead of leaving it to the think tanks.
The second part is what's disturbing me the most. Bush has done this several times--sending out video "press releases" with "newscasters" sitting at a desk like regular news. The television stations that played them never bothered to note that they were NOT actual news.
This is actually ILLEGAL. But leave it to Bush to simply ignore the legalities in order to distribute the administration's message.
I think our town must have made the decision to close the schools based on the forecast. We have a decent amount of snow, but I know I kept my kids home in January, when the schools were open (possibly delayed) and the conditions were worse.
Scott is working from home. He said yesterday that his new boss said he knew everyone was sick and tired of it, and if they could work from home, to go ahead.
Does anyone have an electric griddle? If so, do you like it? Do you have any recommendations, etc.? I just have a smallish (10 to 12 inches, square) Calphalon griddle. It's higher in the middle than on the sides, and well...let's just say that this morning, I didn't bother to ask Tara's question of funny shapes or rounds.
Nora, are you all over your bug? How about Tom?
God, now I am terrified that I am being passive aggressive all over Natter.
You SO are not! It's just, the thought hadn't occurred to me, and now it has. So, I'm in planning mode :)
Cindy, I don't have one--I make my pancakes in a large cast-iron skillet that belonged to my grandmother. But my dad used one to death when I was a kid. It made good 'cakes.
Also, this makes our breakfast of raspberries, bananas and bread & butter seem just...sad.
Cindy, my mom has an electric griddle and loves it. I have my Pampered Chef regular griddle and also love it. Although, I really think the electric griddle makes better pancakes...either that or my mom does, which is quite possible.
I had Somervillains over for brunch a few weeks back. People were very nice and ate my burnt pancakes and told me they were very good.
This article quotes a professor I had at Ball State. I took that Celtic History class and loved it. Gotta love the Welsh.
this makes our breakfast of raspberries, bananas and bread & butter seem just...sad.
I'm eating old cold tortellini, so don't worry about sad. I've got that covered.
Mmmm. Pancakes.
Is it really bad form to go kill my coworker while she's out on leave? I just heard from my student who isn't here this morning that coworker told her she doesn't have to work the morning shift anymore if she doesn't feel like waking up. Coworker neither breathed a word of this to me (the supervisor of the student workers) nor did anything at all to find a replacement for this shift.