ita, you have a lovely skull.

I like skulls.

amych, yay for a birth-few-days!

Also, each one of these books looks interesting. The only things I know about comics come from "Kavalier and Clay", and I'm curious about the differences in cookbooks from both sides of the ocean, and, well, the third one's a clasic, right?

msbelle, I hope you have yummy cookies and a safe flight home.

which I'M NOT DOING

You're strong. You can (not) do it.

I like skulls.

Me too. A skull is where I keep my brain.

(OK, that was funny in my skull....)

I think the internets hate me, since now I can't get into Google either.

I know that Buffistas make fun of "the Internets," based, I think, on a Bush malapropism, but I talked last night with a woman who works for Internet 2, or WWW2, which is an alternative internet being created by educational/research institutions. It's basically being set up to recreate the functions that Arpanet served before it evolved into the internet and became dedicated to selling shoes and porn rather than to research. So we do have Internets of a sort.

Great pics, ita.

Much yay for Nilly having one down and one to go in the appliance necessities. Two down and none to go would be better, but yay for keeping food cold!

If I were to go shopping now, which I'M NOT DOING, I would certainly look for one now, as they are (as seen in that link) on sale. But I'm not going shopping.

Jesse, ask ita for some helpful tips. She's good at the whole not buying stuff.

Strong winds here this morning. On my drive to work, I saw a stop sign disconnect from a pole and slam into someone's windshield. Thank goodness the guy wasn't hurt too badly. Decapitation (mine or anyone else's) is NOT how I want to start the week off.

Yeah...it's Bush snark. and, huh.

The only things I know about comics come from "Kavalier and Clay",

I haven't started this book yet, but it looks like it's the history of the same period in comics that the novel covers.

and I'm curious about the differences in cookbooks from both sides of the ocean,

You're making me wish I read Hebrew (more than I already wish it, I mean) -- I'm a cookbook nut, and so now I'm wondering about what the differences might be as well. I have a few non-US cookbooks, but the languages I read are also the cuisines I know best, so I tend to scan them and dive into work rather than really looking all that closely. I'd love to be able to go farther afield.

and, well, the third one's a clasic, right?

Yep -- and this is a new fancy-schmancy edition, with great type design and printing, and very colorful paintings -- if you do the look inside thing on the amazon link, you can see a few of them for a sense of the style, but my very favorite ones have a sense of humor to them, either in their captions or in how they play off the text, that's almost Gorey-ish in spite of all the light and brightness. Yummy.

I think I have a problem with my brain being missing. My boss came in and told me that a change I had made to our client's payroll system (that serves thousands of employees) wasn't working and was giving users a strange error. So I poked around and discovered that I had forgotten to update a stored procedure on the client's SQL Server. So I tried to update the stored procedure, but got an error... as I also had fogotten to add two fields to two tables. So I added the fields, changed the stored proc, and it still didn't work... as I had fogotten to change the global.asa file. So I changed that and it still didn't work, as it was a different global.asa file that needed to be changed. (God only knows why there are two.) So now I finally got everything working. Now I just gotta make the fixes on one more server....

I never used to be this forgetfull. Maybe I need to write notes on my hand with a pen: "Don't forget to update tables, stored proc and global.asa (the one in the 'time' directory)!"

Ever since T-day I've had an absolutely ravenous appetite. It's 10:45 and I'm starving. I'm trying to hold out until noon.

So we do have Internets of a sort.

Rick, does it evolve on 'its own', the way the, um, regular internet did and does, or is it being constructed somehow?

yay for keeping food cold!

And minimum-stench in the kitchen. And holes in it, too (well, the hole wouldn't disappear, it would just be hidden by the future-hopefully-stove).

it looks like it's the history of the same period in comics that the novel covers.

Oh, it read (in K&C) like such a fascinating period, too. And, obviously, for people who actually have feelings for the comics created during it, it's all the more interesting.

I'm wondering about what the differences might be as well.

I get to notice this in badly-translated cookbooks. I mean, it's not just about translating the language, it's about the terms, measurements, ingredients available and so forth. So when the Americanism of a book is not translated into Israelism, if I'm making any sense, I can begin to guess how a cookbook would be read across the ocean. But only begin, and only to guess.

I wish I could sit with you and compare and discuss.

Also, there's not really - not yet, anyway - an Israeli cuisine. There are plenty, of the many countries from which immigrants came to Israel over the last 150 years or so. My mom's cooking (she's from Tunisia, in North Africa) and that of a person from, say, Europe, are so completely different, and are both traditional Jewish, in their own ways. And the way they mix - and will continue to mix - is fascinating.

Yummy.

And in one food-related word about illustrations, you tie the whole three books together, in a lovely style.

So now I finally got everything working.

So your brain couldn't possibly have gone missing. Maybe it's just suffering from Mondayishness?

Tom, could you eat something small now, and a 'real' lunch at noon? Not just stay starving?