Yesterday I was being nosy in the elevator and I noticed a cute guy was playing Words With Friends. "I play that *all* the time." I told him. He laughed. "I play with complete strangers." I assured him.

I may be a creepy elevator person.

But I got into the elevator later and he was there again, still playing and he flipped his phone around to show me and he laughed again, so not that bad.

In the cafe this morning there was a woman with a cutesy kiddy backpack and she looked like she was one bad piece of news away from being a mass murderer. Like, really creepy. I hope no one looks at my lunchbox and thinks "She's not right. She's never been right."

I could see being bothered if the stock photos were proof that the recipe hadn't been tested by the magazine (which may in fact be the case), but..I'm really not getting the moral outrage here. A picture of a hot dog "undermines everything we [vegans] stand for"? Really? Everything?

JZ, I think you can wait until Monday, if you want to.

You can. Filing deadline is the 18th, this year.

when they made the recipe it looked nothing like the photo.

"Is there a picture of that in the cookbook? Is it supposed to look like that?"

Yes, I went to a Carlin place. I'm having a low-empathy day and just being amused by the outraged vegans. But I'm often amused by vegans. I apologize to any local vegans for the insensitivity.

Juliana, seriously? Life saver!

Yes, it is the 18th this year b/c the 15th is Emancipation Day in DC.

ETA: Your state tax return may still be due on the 15th, but Federal is the 18th.

A picture of a hot dog "undermines everything we [vegans] stand for"? Really? Everything?

Yeah, that blog has a huge history of that sort of hyperbole. They were also the ones who tested food from a bunch of vegan restaurants in LA a few years ago and "proved" that a bunch of it wasn't vegan. (There was one restaurant where I believed it -- that restaurant claimed to use a particular brand of vegan cheese, which is a widely-available brand, and I've seen a bunch of pictures of food from that restaurant where the cheese is obviously not that kind. The other ones, though, the tests mostly picked up small levels of egg and dairy, and I think that levels that small might have been cross-contamination from either the factories where ingredients were made or from kitchen workers not washing their hands thoroughly.)

Your state tax return may still be due on the 15th, but Federal is the 18th.

You almost had me relaxing. I filed Federal ages ago. It's state I'm leaving until the last minute. I'll do it when I get home today. Which might be soon. This week sucks abjectly.

ita, according to the Franchise Tax Board: [link]

Due to the federal Emancipation Day holiday on April 15, 2011, tax returns filed and payments received on April 18, 2011, will be considered timely.

I once made a loaf of challah that could have been a recipe illustration - that one time it came out absolutely gorgeous. I got the braid perfect, the egg wash on the surface came out the perfect shade of brown ... sigh ... tasted good, too.