re: sodastream. someone from my twitter feed said this:
Just heard about an unorthodox SodaStream technique —refrigerate water first, then carbonate.
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
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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.
le nubian - Aug 11, 2012 10:08:25 pm PDT #17892 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
meara - Aug 11, 2012 11:20:47 pm PDT #17893 of 30001
refrigerate water first, then carbonate.
Wait, what?? Why wouldn't you do it that way?? Are you not supposed to? Because that's how I've always done it, so I have immediately drinkable soda. .
Also, can I just share that I am NOT a spoken-word person. It makes me feel awkward. And my friends know this. But my friends also do that shit. So I went, to be supportive...and one of the people reading was reading about how she had gotten divorced and decided to start going on OKCupid dates, and blah blah...and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time WRITHING from the awkward, because I HAD BEEN ON AN OKCUPID DATE WITH HER. AND I WAS IN THE FRONT ROW. Jesus. Save me from small fucking lesbian worlds. (Apparently she also recently was dating the same girl as my ex-roommate, for a bit, and that girl was the roommate of a girl I hooked up with at Pride, and...yeah)
amych - Aug 12, 2012 3:05:52 am PDT #17894 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Unorthodox? Pretty sure it's in the instructions, even. Aside from getting cold soda right away, it takes more fizz, and isn't that the whole point?
-t - Aug 12, 2012 4:16:20 am PDT #17895 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yup, I keep carafes of water in the fridge ready to be fizzed because the manual said to.
Meats, that is some classic sitcom material right there. Meep!
Jessica - Aug 12, 2012 4:19:43 am PDT #17896 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't usually have enough room in my fridge for an on-deck sodastream bottle, so I wind up drinking it room temp. (Firstest world problem ever???)
Liese S. - Aug 12, 2012 5:49:48 am PDT #17897 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I used to keep a running carafe, one fizzed and one unfizzed, but it has been a long time since I've been that organized.
My first world problem for the day? Someone gave me a receiver, which has rendered my in ceiling speakers back functional, only they're only giving me left channel. It has a built in amp, but I didn't like the amp sound, so I put my old amp back in the chain, so there are a few places to troubleshoot. But right now I'm so happy to have it back I'm not even doing it, just listening to unbalanced audio.
Connie Neil - Aug 12, 2012 7:44:35 am PDT #17898 of 30001
brillig
I'm watching Phil Collins You Tube videos as I work, and it seems odd that I find him so sexy. Objectively, he's not all that, losing his hair, kind of plain looking, but then he gets the intensity thing going, and, well--the dorkiest looking guys can get me when they go to their "this is what I'm good at" place. It's like the second season of Black Adder, when I kept staring at the screen and going "But that CAN'T be Rowan Atkinson! This guy's hot!"
Liese S. - Aug 12, 2012 7:48:36 am PDT #17899 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It turned out to be the cable, yay. And the audio problems to begin with were just the wrong channel. So it worked...briefly. And then it made a horrible buzzing sound and quit. I think I have power issues.
Also for today's slate of first world problems: I spilled a bit of juice from my farmer's market plums on my laptop touchpad. Woes.
Sheryl - Aug 12, 2012 8:36:36 am PDT #17900 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Have done brunch, a trip to Barnes and Noble and grocery shopping. Now to chill out and wait for Gary's mom to call us about dinner.
§ ita § - Aug 12, 2012 9:44:39 am PDT #17901 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I sat across the aisle from Rowan Atkinson on a flight out of London once. This was post Blackadder, pre Bean. He had an intensity to him that was kinda interesting, when he wasn't being funny.
He asked to borrow my pen. I will cherish our connection for ever and ever, amen.
I just introduced my father to the concept of spoons. "So it's like energy?" "Like that, but more complicated."
And, true to form, he's followed my sister's example of pointing out spoon moments for the rest of the conversation.
I can't believe my mother knew about the plane crash. She hadn't realised how very close it was (Olympic and Westwood being the first major intersection in that direction), but she still knew it was near me. She must have a Google alert, or something. I hear it's called "motherhood".
Speaking of Google alerts--I can set it up so every news article with the word "migraine" in it gets sent to me in the morning (and I do), but why can't I set up a similar shopping agent? Why can't I have something like my eBay alert, but a wider span, for steel toed mary janes? Clearly they have some inventory detailed with proper metadata--I'd love to take advantage of that in a similar way to the nwes...