Undercooked is better than overcooked, for brownies, right?
I prefer my brownies squidgy, so yes.
One day I too will have cranky bloomers. If I can ever get myself off my unlabeled but cranky and pants-covered thing and find the base.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Cass - Mar 09, 2012 2:32:29 pm PST #26023 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2012 2:35:39 pm PST #26024 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I rated 363 words per minute, about the same as an 11th grader. Bear in mind, this is at the end of a long workday in which I have been squinting at edits on this same computer screen.
javachik - Mar 09, 2012 2:36:06 pm PST #26025 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I took the reading test several times out of curiosity because the reading samples vary. For HG Wells, I was around 500 words a minute and for Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz, I was almost 1200. So I think the results vary dramatically whether or not it's familiar text to you and whether the style is simple narrative or has lots of dialogue (the HG Wells had dialogue, and that is trickier for me to read).
Polter-Cow - Mar 09, 2012 2:43:22 pm PST #26026 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I had 600 words per minute, 140% faster than the national average.
askye - Mar 09, 2012 2:49:06 pm PST #26027 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I just saw a link to this and I had to share it with you guys -
A Fisherman's Language is an autobiography by James Arruda Henry who learned to read and write when he was inhis mid 90s! He's 98! He wrote a book!
[link] is a blog about him and he's even gone to schools to share his story.
Dana - Mar 09, 2012 2:53:24 pm PST #26028 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm going to be on a Delta flight tomorrow, and I'm going to be so disappointed if this doesn't happen:
Sue - Mar 09, 2012 2:58:06 pm PST #26029 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I was 50% higher than national average, but I am on my netbook, so I had to scroll.
JZ - Mar 09, 2012 3:03:03 pm PST #26030 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm going to be on a Delta flight tomorrow, and I'm going to be so disappointed if this doesn't happen:
Hmmm, I don't know. Based on my limited experience of the species in question, they are extremely cute but also smelly as hell. Possibly smellier than hell; it's entirely possible that God never needed an army of angels to defeat Lucifer and his army, just an army of that species trotting around looking adorable and stinking at them.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2012 3:08:12 pm PST #26031 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, the day spent imitating my manager just about killed me. And I have to do it again Monday.
What's really cute is that my boss is clearly using me as a manager substitute for shooting the shit, too. So whole long convo about alcohol and caffeine, after the developer workload and implementation deadlines.
Man, I wish that vendor would send the NDA back to me, stat. I can't believe I got in the middle of a legal conversation. Talk about outside my wheelhouse. Sheeyit.
Cass - Mar 09, 2012 3:23:21 pm PST #26032 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'm going to be on a Delta flight tomorrow, and I'm going to be so disappointed if this doesn't happen
That would make listening to the "smoking is not allowed" lady with her no-no finger waving totally worth it. Especially if I was stuffed up and couldn't smell the cute things.