Archive for June, 2011
Jambalaya
LA asked for my jambalaya recipe; as long as I was writing it out, I figured other people might want it too. Like lots of traditional forms of cooking, I think jambalaya evolved as a way to use up every bit of your leftovers, and to make a bit of meat go a long way, […]
settled down a bit
I survived June’s insanity. Now I get a nice calm three weeks or so before I head off to Japan, unless of course something changes. Poor Ted doesn’t even get a weekend to recover; he’s leaving for Taiwan this weekend, though at least this time he only stays a week. You can see my trip […]
tired just thinking about it
I’ve gotten to the crux of my busy June – I feel like I’m at the top of a roller coaster, about to start plunging down hill. Here’s what’s coming up on the track: Tomorrow I have an offsite meeting – I was going to have to duck out early but fortunately it’s a shortened […]
on the latest Shadow Unit
I am not resigned. . . . . . . (The season finale is in three parts; it starts here.)
book recs: for children and teenagers who like historical fantasy
Someone in a discussion group was just lamenting that most of the recent books for girls are limited to romances or books about vampires, saying that she loves / loved SF and books from the 19th century. And then there was the Wall Street Journal’s recent article how how dreadfully and explicitly dark the current […]
Revere, further redux
I’m still annoyed at the Sarah Palin error over Paul Revere’s ride. The thing is, for a public figure, there are mistakes, there are stupid mistakes, and there are pernicious mistakes. A mistake is “Sorry, I said 80 billion dollars but I meant 90 billion” or “I said Senator Goldbrick when I meant to refer […]
Revere, redux
Listen, my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five Apparently few are now alive Who have studied that famous day and year. How lucky we were, in those early days, That our founding fathers (and mothers too) Thought a well-stocked mind was no […]
Among Others, again
Something weird happened to me with the book Among Others, by Jo Walton. After that first glorious reading, I did a thing I do with the books that speak to me most, and dived back in for an immediate reread. And …. it didn’t work for me at all the second time through, it just […]
I miss my *real* oven
I really, really hate Dutch combis – I hate them in general and the one in my current apartment is a particularly loathesome specimen of the breed. A combi, for those lucky enough not to have encountered one, is a small combination microwave (they say “magnetron” here), grill, and convection oven. It sounds useful, but […]