Kittysaur!

Found at https://twitter.com/Gluonsrule/status/406523227171614720/photo/1


Because of https://twitter.com/Gluonsrule/status/406161387535101954
 

Food experiments

#1: Trying to make a jalapeno cranberry sauce by using lots of dates instead of sugar will make it come out a thick, spicy, reddish sauce or glaze to serve with meat or quinoa -- not terrible tasting, but not really like the original cranberry sauce.

#2: Where are all the baby squashes tonight?

#3: Balsamic glaze

http://cleananddelicious.com/2008/08/09/howto_make_balsamic_glaze_vide/

Stacking things at halfbakedharvest

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Hmmm, more ideas for uses of the strange cranberry concoction?

Maybe some other evening...

http://www.halfbakedharvest.com/chipotle-quinoa-sweet-potato-tacos-roasted-cranberry-pomegranate-salsa/

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http://www.eatboutique.com/2011/11/06/balsamic-glaze/#.UpmIw9zTnxN

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"Just a little...because it's an experiment" = eating half of the experiment with a hunk of crusty sourdough.

Takeaways from yesterday

Roasted baby squashes do not need herbs to be delicious

Jalapeno cranberry sauce

The Brontosaurus never existed

Korean businesspeoples' drinking habits

some Descent ideas/associations

Boundlessness in Bloom by Duy Huynh

Ring of Fire

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http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/23580/madrid-firemen-and-one-firewoman-strip-off-for-charity-calendar-to-help-the-hungry

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/watch-this-indian-actress-shut-down-a-female-journalist-for

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Mallika Sherawat & Bruno Mars

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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descent

Food for thought

http://www.michaelschoneman.com/2011/11/im-not-vegan-happy-thanksgiving.html

~ "P.S.  I expect this story probably sounds trivial, but if you've ever been poor and desperate, you know how humiliating it is to ask for help from someone whom you know doesn't want to give it."

~ http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-2013.html



Benjamin Franklin Gets a Facelift

~ A survey of men and women from 1998 to 2009 shows that women 65 years of age and older have a median income that’s 25% lower than that of their male counterparts, according to Bloomberg. Even worse, the federal study showed that women of that age group are twice as likely as men to be living at or below the poverty line."


~ http://business.time.com/2012/07/26/retirement-age-women-twice-as-likely-as-men-to-live-in-poverty-whats-going-on/

http://www.michaelschoneman.com/2011/11/im-not-vegan-happy-thanksgiving.html


~ "....gets hit on all the time by dudes who come in and act like they've never seen a circle-shaped cake before. But she's a little reticent, so usually she does her twitchy, eye-rolly, 'Uh, time to make the fonuts'-type dance, and she walks away. She just got out of a relationship with 'a high-profile chef' they act like they're not going to name for a while, and then she accidentally maybe lets it slip that okay, you dragged it out of her, it's..."

~ http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/08/11/211060932/the-real-foodwives-bravo-found-some-more-rich-ladies-who-gossip

http://southernfoodways.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html

 ~ "Contrary to conventional wisdom, researchers say it can hurt women to ask for more money. That's because when women do request either a raise or a higher starting salary they are more likely than men to be perceived as greedy, demanding or just not very nice."

"Neale said she thinks it is largely subconscious, and most bosses probably don't even know that they are judging women more harshly."

"When Neale is negotiating, she said she's found that she is more successful if she asks for a package of resources that will help make her employer better—rather than just more money for herself.
In academia, she said, that may mean she also shows how more resources for her research, plus additional teaching assistants, will help the university meet its goal of producing more high-profile results.

  'Then I'm not getting greedy,' she said. 'I'm doing things that help the organization.'"

~ For women, asking for a raise...

http://thegraphicsfairy.com/retro-clip-art-money-moms-women/

~ "asking is complicated"

~ http://amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/65423995378/whats-the-most-important-thing-you-have-learned-this

A cornocopia of links

https://libraries.mit.edu/news/cornucopia-cookbooks/1223/

Hey Good Lookin'

Hey Coal Miner's Daughter

Hey Junipero

Hey Seven Cities of Gold

Hey Erendiras

http://mexicanfood1.wordpress.com/

Par-for-the-course eggshell human psyche

While the earlier portion of the evening involved unloading groceries, plans to putter around in the kitchen and accidentally getting the silly Adam Sandler Hanukkah song stuck in my head, this somehow evolved into Gary Jules' Mad World becoming embedded in my brain before I even cooked the turkey bacon for the broccoli salad. Probably will just have to go out to a coffee place and think about it.

From etsy

Not a Southern California kind of film

If you search images for love in hills you get a lot of stuff, but one those images is this:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/beyond-the-hills-review-divine-love-1.4807357

I think it's meant to be watched when a person is in the mood for lots of bleak winter landscape.
And religious women.

Bodies and books

Howard Schatz's Images Of Female Athletes...

http://bookshelfies.tumblr.com/

The internet and its (culinary) influence

I read this and decided to cook something.

http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-soup-spot-mecca-of-soup.html

I have onion. I have broth. I have what is probably the incorrect type of cheese. I can go to the store for French bread.

Voila...

From closetcooking

Sadly, I do not own a crock.
Oh well. I've always wanted to try cooking French Onion soup.
Maybe I will even make this adventurous apple version.

fancy talking pictures types of things

From Morris Dance on wikipedia

In search of light comical song/dance relief, was trying very hard to find a hey nonny nonny sketch, but ALL I got was:

http://www.moviestack.com/posts/261498-robin-hood-men-in-tights-on-key--peele.

Typing "renaissance costumes" and various other things did not help.

On the other hand, Lando's Fan and Tackle & Grapple and McCringleberry's Excessive Celebration (the last one reminded me of that time I found out a kid who sat behind me in a math class had magically metamorphosed into being someone's dad and had also posted a religious sermon including comparisons of himself to a rhinoceros) were perfectly available. Now I really should go proofread an essay for a coworker whose mom is my age. Hey nonny donde estany...

Melting

From Feral Librarian

From thisiscolossal

From theinspiredapple

joie de vivre & aloe plants?

Vance Joy ~ Riptide

From vancejoy

Which pair of praying hands looks most pious

Younger or elder?

From jeannedepompadour

from wikipedia

Hi, Hans

I couldn't understand a word you said.

From simfy

but thanks for contributing to one of the best cinematic experiences I ever had in my LIFE,

From http://www.karussell.de/hans-paetsch

which was watching Run Lola Run at the Byrd Theater in Richmond.

From hamlethamster

Also the only time I ever got to see someone play one of those old organs, and whoever that guy was was fantastic as well.

Sherasherashera

What on earth is this a picture of?

From http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-time-pays-for-all.html

And this?  http://severinefeist.blogspot.com/2013/07/sometimes-you-just-gotta-get-with-your.html

Like most good girl children of the early 80s, I was a big fan of Shera as an 8-year-old. (And now I'm wondering where the name originated after noticing these Hindi (?) songs: Shera, shera somali, ye dilwaalon ki basti hai Shera 1999...) I missed out on watching Blues Clues as a kid because I was a decade off, but after skimming through The Tipping Point while entertaining a cat named Coraline this weekend, I wonder if I should check it out? Also because of my weird little dog dreamish experience around Halloween.  And because, as Mr. Dylan relayed, I think I have dreamed of St. Augustine! Perhaps not always with my eyes closed.

Swirly streaks n' striations

From plantsarethestrangestpeople

From verybestbaking

From lifeokblog

From soapqueen

Le restaurant review

From The Burger Shack review on yelp, little photo 15

todays t-shirt slogan idea

is "I Prefer Sarcastic Secular People"

I think it's kinda clever. I thought it up in my brain...

From npr.org

Brain Story that came on the radio a little while ago.

a she from somewhere

I don't know how, but yesterday I accidentally stumbled across a blog that stopped in 2011. I looked at it briefly, decided it was mostly full of selfies, then closed my browser. Well, this morning it kept getting in my face when I was closing windows so I thought that maybe it wanted to be shared.

This was from December of 2009: http://theaudreywilde.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html.

This was the last visual (I believe it's Bernard):