While articles about it don’t show up regularly enough to constitute a category, we do love Foreign Accent Syndrome.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Whose Flag Are You?
I enjoy attending the Seattle Sounders FC games, but flag questions come up a lot: it’s the world’s game, after all, and the world has many a flag (very few with the name conveniently written on). So here’s a flag identifier tool, and another one. I hope they work on cell phones!
Edisonblog!
Woodside Villa July 17 1885
Slept so sound that even Mina didn’t bother me as It would stagger the mind of Raphael in a dream to imagine a being comparable to the Maid of Chataqua so I must have slept very sound — As usual I was the last one up. This is because Im so deaf — found everybody smiling and happy — Read more of Miss Clevelands book, think she is a smart woman — relatively — Damons diary progressing finely —
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CD Club for Nerds: who's with me???
First: read this article about CD Club for Nerds.
Second: send me email telling me you want to DO THIS THING! Let’s work it out, people, I’m totally serious.
Today's Phone Phun
[Phone rings]
Craig [answering phone]: Hello?
Megan: Hi, Craig?
Craig: Yes.
Megan: It’s Megan
[Craig thinks “Do I know a Megan? Megan who? Probably a recruiter.”]
Megan [cont’d]: I just sent you [something or other] from Wells [blah blah blah] and I want us to look at them side by side, because remember when I said my closing costs shouldn’t be more than [some amount]?
Craig: No, I really don’t. What are we talking about?
Megan: Oh, wait. Is this Craig Stark?
Craig: No.
Megan: Is this Craig Sternwood?
Craig: Yep.
Megan: Oh, I hit the wrong Craig S in my phone contacts. Well, you just have a great rest of your day and weekend.
[call ends]
Collected Roger Zelazny Vol. 1 Review
Threshold: Volume 1: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, ed. Grubbs, Kovacs, Crimmins. Yes.
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These Are the People I Serve
This is turning into a regular feature!
Sweet Jesus. Except if this person was really a patron, the note would be laser printed.
The [eastern city] of the Northwest
A new town, called Paradise City, has been started in opposition to Moscow, up in Idaho. The rivalry is said to be very acrimonious. One is the St. Louis and the other the Chicago of the Northwest.
Daily Evening Bulletin, (San Francisco, CA) Wednesday, April 14, 1875
Homemade Chocolate/Toffee treats—try some today
We just enjoyed some of these homemade Heath®-like treats, and you should, too.
Saltine crackers
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
6 oz. chocolate chips (or better/darker chocolate, if you prefer)
Preheat oven to 350°F
Lay saltines flat on cookie sheet until it’s completely covered. Set aside.
Boil the butter and brown sugar together in a saucepan for 3 minutes.
Quickly pour the butter mixture over, and spread to cover, the crackers.
Bake in 350°F oven for 5 minutes.
Remove pan from oven and sprinkle with chocolate chips. Wait a couple minutes for chips to soften, then spread evenly over bars.
After they’re completely cooled, break apart and serve.
We used a combination of semi-sweet chips and Trader Joe’s 72% chocolate.
Anxiety and Lies!
Two items from The Daily Huronite, Huron, South Dakota, Monday April 12, 1886:
THE STRIKERS AND RIOTERS.
April 12. — It is requiring a strong force of militia to maintain order at East St. Louis. The incendiary fires are under control. The anxiety does not abate.
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The Globe, in staring headline, says, “Somebody has lied.!” After residing nearly six years in Dakota, watching its statesmen, legislators, land agents, politicians, and newspaper men, we are reluctantly led to admit a strong probability that the Globe is right.