Fourth of Six

Listen Up! There will be a test!

Friday, December 22, 2006

Kitchens 101: Basic Must-Have Tools

I'm cleaning out my junk room and organizing my kitchen. I want to throw out all but the bare necessities, so I searched the Web and gleaned the following list of stuff I should keep, mostly from HGTV. What you need for your starter kitchen:

couple covered sauce pans 1 and 2 qt
4 qt dutch oven: for pasta, soup,
ovenproof skillet with lid
cake pans: 2 qt rectangle, and square
2 cookie sheets,
metal lipped baking sheet
loaf pan
pie tin
muffin tin
corkscrew
bottle opener
can opener
serrated knives
paring knives
measuring cups
measuring spoons
4-cup measuring glass
long-handled fork,
ladle,
a spatula (plastic for non-stick pans),
pasta server,
tongs,
kitchen shears,
whisk,
potato masher,
slotted spoon,
rubber spatulas and
an assortment of wooden spoons and turners.
vegetable scraper,
grater,
instant-read thermometer,
a rolling pin,
plastic cutting board
sifter or sieve and
racks for cooling
A coffee maker,
tea kettle
portable electric mixer,
toaster
colander
salad spinner
mixing bowls
four dinner plates,
4 salad plates,
4 cups, cereal bowls and
4 soup plates —
flatware for four and
several serving pieces
plastic dishes for leftovers: freezer, microwave, and dishwasher
plastic dishes for lunches
plastic wrap
microwave splatter shield

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Shock Waves Can Save Hearts

Via Wired News: "A team of Japanese researchers found that blasting the heart with shock waves helps patients grow new blood vessels and increase blood flow."

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Fridge magnet holds sack of potatoes



Blogger Rick tore the magnet out of a hard drive. It's so powerful, it can hold a 3 lb sack of potatoes to his fridge door.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Adultitis.org - Awareness, Diagnosis and Treatment for Adultitis

What a relief! I took the test, and it turns out I am NOT afflicted with even a hint of Adultitis.org. This may change soon. I start a new job in January.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod

An Illustrated Journey

Dan O'Day's advice on how to turn down a job

Dan O'Day is a radio personality who writes, performs, and sells comedy for radio shows. I recently heeded his advice regarding how to turn down a job. It is about radio jobs, but it could apply to any job. Funny stuff.

HP Printing Mailbox + Presto, you've got mail


For $150 + $10 a month, luddites who don't have a computer or Internet connection, can get Presto, a service which delivers private email to the HP Printing Mailbox, which prints email and photos without a computer. The appliance needs only to be plugged into a phone line and power line.

It's a great way for HP to sell paper and ink.

It's a very convenient way to stay connected with folks who still resist going online. It prevents spam and ads by delivering emails only from people who are friends.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

My Cyborg name


Biomechanical Electronic Construct Keen on Yelling


Get Your Cyborg Name

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Dangerously Fun � Electrolysis

Dangerously Fun

Working for an Impossible Boss

Working for an Impossible Boss

Amateur juggler in the family


Via davidmo

Project Implicit

Take the Implicit Association Test.

Combine All Of Your Club Cards

Just One Club Card enables you to Combine All Of Your Club Cards into one, instead of carrying a monstrous wallet or keyring dangling with membership cards.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Urban coyotes in Greensboro

Wow, I didn't know this, but there are coyotes living in cities. Even Greensboro. One thing about coyotes is they're carnivores. Good way to control the surplus population of rats and cats without chemicals or surgery.

Via Where the Bluebird Sings, a Greensboro wildlife blog.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Computer scientists try to rebuild the tower of Babel

Via Wired: "Perhaps no technological endeavor has been more defined by its failures than the attempts over the last 60 years to use computers to convert one language into another. 'It's one of the earliest computer science problems to be attacked, and it has proven to be the one that's most difficult,' says Nizar Habash, a research scientist at the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University."

Genesis 11:9 (King James Version)

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Douglas Adams quote

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 95


Via The Quotations Page