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Category Archives: Books
32. Scallop OmNomNombo
This might be a milestone, or something: the first day of the second month of Soup 365. Golly! So many soups left to make. So many, many soups. Inspired by the Saints' Super Bowl victory (Who Dat?) and this accompanying … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food and Drink, Recipes, Soup 365
Tagged mark bittman, omnomnombo, phil plait, scallop gumbo recipe
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Bake, braise, roast
A few months ago, I decided that I need to develop my skills (a la Napoleon Dynamite). And one skill I decided to focus on was baking: specifically, I wanted to begin baking all the bread that our family ate … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food and Drink, Weblogs
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Obsessions old & new
Jim: having our friend Mike build him some frames so he can pull together a photo show (location TBD; anybody know a gallery owner?); his new basement photo studio (pics coming) Fisher: the Pour le Merit medal (coming his way … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food and Drink, Things That Happened
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November Rain
It's a cold, drizzly day here in Paradise City.* Yesterday was, too, and so I decided to make some bean soup. And because I was feeling unaccountably ambitious (and thrifty!), I decided to start with dried beans rather than the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food and Drink, Recipes, Things That Happened
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Fritter fritter
Naturally, with such a lofty set of goals at hand, I’ve been ISO some high-quality forms of time-wasting. And since it’s a holiday weekend, no one is around to play Scrabulous with me… and since rain is threatening, I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Memes
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Books are for nerds.
And, apparently, reading books to your children is for nerdy parents. All the cool parents will now be farming out their dreary drudgerous reading-aloud duties to the Tag Reading System, a new wonder device from your good friends at LeapFrog. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Homeschool, Web/Tech
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The Woods
A music video for a song by Polly Paulusma, stop-motion animated by Rima Staines. If you could put your own artistic stamp on a folk- or fairytale, which one would it be? Which versions of the old stories do you … Continue reading
Posted in art, sorta, Books
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Another gem from the “duh” department
This just in:Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading (NYT) You don’t even have to read the article to know what it’s going to say. I mean. Isn’t that kind of like a headline … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Homeschool, Pointless Rants
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Pick nine, only nine
From the NYT Lede blog: The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, is trying to encourage more of her citizenry to read books by giving boxes of as many as nine books to 400,000 poor families, according to The Economist. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books
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