Yeah... That went well.

Mal ,'Trash'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


Liese S. - Oct 05, 2012 6:41:24 pm PDT #24682 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

That sounds delish. I am really inconsistent with that sort of thing.

Ha, that sounds great, Kat. It's ridiculous that you have 307 students. It truly is. But I think that's a great solution to the bitching.

I have never had texture issues with any food, but then I have the least discriminating palate of anyone I know.

You need to take a pic of your engineering when it's done, sara!

Ooh, I finally got my Tivo back working again! I mean, it was working, I just didn't get locals. Because they made some sort of software upgrade that killed them. Which I find annoying. But anyway, I could never get software updates, because I don't have a landline. I have VOIP, but the connection is cellular, and it's just not enough to handle data over VOIP.

But the SO suggested that we'd have access to landlines galore while we were traveling, so I totally packed my Directivo and LCD monitor along with us (bonus, I could watch my tivo'd shows while I was on the road! negative, it wasn't recording whilst disconnected from the satellite, no Ponds, woe.)

But it worked! I'm pretty sure the hotel staff was looking askance at me both when I was carrying it in and when I was carrying it out, but I don't care, because I have locals again finally. And I didn't spend $50 on a useless service call, which was the first CSR's suggestion. And I didn't spend $450 on a new tivo, which I thought was a much better solution, albeit not an economically smart one.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2012 7:14:25 pm PDT #24683 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is it the golden rule that teachers are only a grade smarter than their students?

Where does that even come from? I've never heard jibes about teachers being typically stupid. New one to me.

However, if someone gave me 307 of anything to be responsible of, I might give serious thought to acting dumb to make them take some away. Good lord, Kat. That's...I don't know how you manage that. How you even look at managing that.

-t, I don't think you're using the same recipe I did. Mine doesn't say it keeps cooking 5 degrees after you take it out of the oven, more that it cooks 20 degrees hotter in the oven after you turn it off.

My probe is set to alarm when it hits the designated temperature, so I know it never reached the proper temp. And at the time when CI said it should have been done, it was clearly seeping pink. So, no.

I have a clock alarm set I can't work out how to turn off. Not the end of the world, not least of all because it's 9PM, but--annoying. It's got to be simple, but I'm not hitting the right button. Damn fancy computer shit.

I need to tidy more before the cleaner, or bargain on waking up early tomorrow...

Hate decisions. Will go back to working on provocateuse.


Pix - Oct 05, 2012 7:18:40 pm PDT #24684 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.

However, if someone gave me 307 of anything to be responsible of, I might give serious thought to acting dumb to make them take some away. Good lord, Kat. That's...I don't know how you manage that. How you even look at manage that.

This. It's impossible. Impossible to do well, certainly, if at all. I just don't see how they could ever expect you to do anything truly productive with even HALF that many. It makes me so angry on your behalf, not to mention on behalf of the students. It's so unfair.


-t - Oct 05, 2012 7:21:26 pm PDT #24685 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

more that it cooks 20 degrees hotter in the oven after you turn it off.

No, this recipe had that. That part worked fine for me. So I couldn't reproduce the problem. Sadface. I can't imagine that my oven is better insulated than anyone's, though, because the back of it is in a closet and I can see that it's just bare metal, so I can't even come up with a hypothesis.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2012 7:34:23 pm PDT #24686 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No, this recipe had that

Okay, then I'm confused by

I am not at all sure about this whole internal temperature of the chicken rising 5 degrees after it comes out of the oven

because that's not in the recipe I tried.


-t - Oct 05, 2012 7:40:20 pm PDT #24687 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

OK, when I look at the recipe, it does not actually say that, but it you are supposed to take the chicken out of the oven at 160 and all my charts say 165 is what's safe, and some of them say that meat keeps cooking out of the oven so take it out before that, so I guess I am merging all that together. Sorry, I was working from memory.


beth b - Oct 05, 2012 7:53:01 pm PDT #24688 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

need creme brule now

that is all


Consuela - Oct 05, 2012 8:36:47 pm PDT #24689 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Note to self: "business casual" for a function where senators and admirals are in attendance does not, in fact, include trouser jeans.

t facepalm


DavidS - Oct 05, 2012 9:16:57 pm PDT #24690 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Stupid admirals! My friend Lars' dad was an asshole and a bit of a prick.


Trudy Booth - Oct 05, 2012 9:22:22 pm PDT #24691 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

It's quite possible you haven't tasted my egg nog, and I haven't tasted your creme brulee.

Y'all don't need me to tell you that sounds like a pick-up line on Chopped. I should try that on Zakarian at Comicon.