I think the donut would kick the cupcake's delicious ass.

I'm watching the Vagina Monologues on HBO.

Do beignets count as doughnuts? Then gotta go with the donughts. If not, I back the silent dark horse, as long as there's chantilly creme.

Now I want a donut

I had beignets on Tuesday, for my dad's bday. Each family member got one. I was stuffed with shrimp czarina, but one was NOT. ENOUGH.

I want some more. Like a zillion more, with tons of the creme, and strong coffee. Except I had too much guac and am kinda overtuffed and uncomfortable. And I am nigh well vampire-proof, I put so much garlic in the guac. Which I now call guavacado, because I misspoke earlier, and it makes me laugh everytime I says guavacado. Hee.

I still have leftover cinnamon rolls!

Kat, I asked because a friend of mine who was teaching some undergrads psychology got ZERO backup from her department when she tried to fail some kids for plagiarizing in her class--even though the university honor code states that's what happens.

The answer must depend on one's tolerance for moistness (with apologies for the word). Cupcakes are dry. Donuts are fatty and delicious. Incidentally, there aren't many locations around anymore but spudnuts (donuts made with potato flour) are pretty darn good.

Cupcakes win, obviously. For they are tiny cakes, and usually covered in buttercream frosting. Mmmm, buttercream frosting.

We don't have any neighborhood email list that I know of. But we have neighbors who check in on people, and who apparently take great amusement in telling the pretending-to-be-tough-hoodlums that I'm a witch and can curse them. Which, okay? It makes the p-t-b-t-hs be very polite to me when I walk by them at the park.

I do loves me some buttercream frosting. But you don't need cake for that.

I just realized that I only do jam for PB&J. I'll use jelly in a pinch but I only buy jam.

The thought of Jilli cursing anyone is kind of funny.

I've moved from VM to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. And I'm trying to write.

Why we don't have cupcakes in Israel? I feel deprived, especially after tasted them. Yes, I can try and make them myself, but it's not like I can go to the cupcake store and buy some. And Cupcakes are kiddna categorized as "immediate fun", not as "OK, I might want to have them tomorrow, let's bake today".

Congrats on food and house and weight, Buffistas.

I am wondering if I should just budget some money to go to these people.

I say no, because:

I give directly to homeless shelters and food pantries.

Well, personally, I don't donate to homeless shelters and food pantries, but volunteer in an NGO for social justice an equality here. And I know the situation you're writing about very well, too. Point is, I'm looking for the best way possible to help, but I won't be able to help if I'm broke. And I think the solution needs to come from the government, or some-who-ever-that-might-be that's looking at the big picture, because almost no one can fund all of the homeless people in his town. And you'll just keep on giving. And to remind you, you're already paying taxes, and I think the taxes should also cover this subject.

ION.

As a geek, I live in a close supervision state of mind with my RSS, the interwebs, technology, art, and all those cool things.
As a student, the paper I'll probably write for my Anthropology of Violence class will deal with technology and the way people give meanings to it. And I'm reading lots of cool things, but they all pretty much comes up (and I'm generalizing here) with "technology changes us", meaning that our essence as human being changes when we interact with technology. Some claims technology makes us more human. Which is nice, but...

I understand this to a point, but I still find it hard to believe that people 300 years ago were that different. They might have thought about other things and had other standards, but they way people are putting this into text, is like reading about mutations of humanity.

Maybe it's an idea I'll have to get used to, but I find it hard to - not to understand, but feel - that we're that different. Because if I'm saying that a person is more human today than he was, say, 500 years ago, or 8000 years ago, and that's because of technology, then it's a very short ride from saying "rich people from 1st world countries are more human than poor people from 3rd world countries".

Shir, my feeling is that there's always been technology of a kind -- for instance, flint knapping is damn hard to do, and has to be learned/taught, and you have to be able to =make the tools= in the first place. That's "tech" right there, and we 21stCenturians generally don't see it, because all we see is a bunch of rocks hitting other rocks.

I think the main difference is that there are less layers of production between a person and their technology in a "primitive" society. I barely understand how an electric motor works, and I would have a hell of a time trying to recreate one from scratch, especially if I had to do it from raw materials.

We think "primitive" people are foolish to believe in magic, but, damn if I don't accept stuff like electric light bulbs, LCD monitors and cellphones without even questioning how they work, and believe in what they do on a level that's not much like "it's magic."