Timelies all!
I'm so not ready for the winter weather. Emotionally, I mean.
I like the ruffles.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Nov 18, 2014 2:34:39 pm PST #10752 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
shrift - Nov 18, 2014 2:40:59 pm PST #10753 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Just heard that the Senate voted down the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a welcome surprise.
Whoa. To quote Allie Brosh, maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit?
flea - Nov 18, 2014 2:47:20 pm PST #10754 of 30000
information libertarian
I got results from some random standardized testing (NWEA RIT? whatevs) Dillo did at school, and apparently he reads at the level of the average 8th grader (he's in 3rd.) My clever rabbit.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2014 2:48:02 pm PST #10755 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Whoa. To quote Allie Brosh, maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit?
I'm such a pessimist that I'm just braced for the grand jury decision in Ferguson. All other news just keeps bouncing off my brain while I'm waiting for that.
-t - Nov 18, 2014 2:49:41 pm PST #10756 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's not as bitterly cold here as it is many places, but I think it calls for soup. Specifically broccoli cheese soup, although I am too impatient to roast the broccoli.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2014 2:50:44 pm PST #10757 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I am battling the weather with (vegetarian) shepherds pie. Yum!
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2014 2:53:15 pm PST #10758 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh! Dumb-ass baking question: I've never baked/assembled a layer cake before, but I'm making one tomorrow. You know how round cakes tend to bake up into a dome shape? What's the best way to slice off the dome so the cake is flat enough to frost/stack, without destroying the cake in the process of slicing off the dome?
I should amend that: what's the best way to slice off the dome that doesn't require special tools, because I have none and am not going out to buy a cake dome-slicing tool. So it has to be using normal kitchen tools (knife, etc.).
shrift - Nov 18, 2014 2:54:59 pm PST #10759 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm such a pessimist that I'm just braced for the grand jury decision in Ferguson.
Ugh. You have a point. The course I'm taking on the Civil War and Reconstruction is not helping my outlook on America's deeply entrenched racism. To put it mildly.
erikaj - Nov 18, 2014 2:57:08 pm PST #10760 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Keystone pipeline comes down to one no, by Independent Angus King, who kind of sounds like the kind of cranky pain-in-the-butt I could learn to really like.(Of course, in my head right now, he's totally a cartoon of a New Englander, because I've never really seen him)
Connie Neil - Nov 18, 2014 2:57:30 pm PST #10761 of 30000
brillig
What's the best way to slice off the dome so the cake is flat enough to frost/stack,
You don't slice off the dome, you use it for more frosting square footage. And you use frosting to fill in the gap between the layers. Like mortar.