Yes, it was Edward II who had "a kind of horn or funnel ... thrust into his fundament through which a red-hot spit was run up his bowels."

Yay, ChiKat!

The juxtaposition of these two sentences amuses me.

Hey guys, cooking advice needed: I'm having people over for dinner tonight, and making roasted potatoes. How far in advance can I dice the potatoes before roasting?

ETA: found my answer, and forgot I knew this at TGiving.

Congratulations ChiKat! Super coolio!

The answer is not that far, unless you want to soak them in ice water, which washes off some of the starch, right?

Politics - Garance Franke-Ruta - Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are - The Atlantic

One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. And it's among the most common figures pointed to in popular culture as an estimate of how many people are gay or lesbian.

But what percentage of the population is actually gay or lesbian? With the debate over same-sex marriage again an emerging fault line in American political life, the answer comes as a surprise: A lower number than you might think -- and a much, much, much lower one than most Americans believe.

In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.

How could you think that 25% of Americans are gay?

Maybe it's small-town conservatives who think that big cities are full of liberal decadence?

That is so cool, Chi!

Matilda and I have gone over to Kezar Stadium, kicked around the soccer ball, run all the steps and returned back to the apartment to make snow cones using our hand cranked (plastic) Snoopy snow cone maker.

We used syrup from a can of peaches to flavor the first batch. But for the second batch I made homemade raspberry syrup which is pretty effin' delicious.

Emmett is getting a ride to the Varsity Baseball season ending dinner in Walnut Creek tonight with a teammate! Yikes, even though it's a senior with a couple years of driving experience that still feels scary. Freeway driving at night with teenagers.

annoying co-worker is one of those people who is ALWAYS in drama. she dropped her car off to get worked on last weeek: 1st thing was the dealership was saying they would not get her a rental, then they got her a rental but the work was taking to long, then it was maybe see would just get a new car and the dealership wasn't giving her a very good deal, then she picked up the car and the dealership had doen damage to it and it was making horrible noises, just now taking it back to the dealership the front tire flew off because the dealership apparently did not tighten it on - so now the car is wrecked and that is horrible and scary, but it is being told and retold in 20-30 minute loud re-enactments with cursing and I just hope by Monday it is resolved or all I will hear is phone calls with the dealership.

How could you think that 25% of Americans are gay?

Matilda might grow up presuming so in San Francisco.

Do you mind if I share on facebook? I have some middle/high school drama teachers as friends.

Please do!!

Thanks again, everyone! I am super stoked. So stoked I'm actually using the word "stoked."

I figured the water heater guy would show up as soon as I made lunch, and lo, it was so.