Not octopus, squid. Specifically, a despair squid.
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Unlikely to ever prove aliens exist one way or the other.
They won’t come and visit us as long before they land they will be able to intercept our TV broadcasts and after watching 20 minutes of that, they’ll be out of here!
We won’t be able to visit them as we won’t work together. We will use up our remaining resources fighting each other for those remaining resources.
They won’t come and visit us as long before they land they will be able to intercept our TV broadcasts and after watching 20 minutes of that, they’ll be out of here!
We won’t be able to visit them as we won’t work together. We will use up our remaining resources fighting each other for those remaining resources.
I can’t watch “that 70’s show” anymore - with him being in it. Knowing the pain he caused others.
9/11
I can't believe it's been 22 years. Thinking of all the victims and their families.
I can't believe it's been 22 years. Thinking of all the victims and their families.
Weather returning to something more normal for mid September.
Laundry, bedlinen, and preparing an Italian shin beef casserole, not unlike osso buco, are all on my mind, as are a few online meetings I have to attend.
Laundry, bedlinen, and preparing an Italian shin beef casserole, not unlike osso buco, are all on my mind, as are a few online meetings I have to attend.
Back to work myself today. Well in truth I did a half day yesterday.
WFH so at least I’m not in the office.
WFH so at least I’m not in the office.
Long-lost Star Wars X-Wing model to be auctioned, bids starting at $400,000
Model of spacecraft used in 1977 Star Wars film was thought to be lost for decades, but was found in the collection of Oscar-nominated model-maker Greg Jein
Oh, how I wish I had a half million to spare.
On my mind: Those recipes where they tell you (or inform you) that the preparation is (or takes) "15 minutes."
They are lying.
They are lying.
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On a somber note, thinking of the people of Morocco today after the horrible earthquake this weekend. My institute has a program there (specifically in Rabat and Casablanca) but all students and staff are all right. Naturally in countries with lower standard housing especially for the poor the death toll is horrendous.
I am teaching some students who were born after the attack and most, even if they were born then, were too young to have a good memory of it.
Me as well, but I missed it unfolding as it happened. I was my lab. Even though my work colleagues knew I was American with family in DC and friends in NYC, nobody thought to alert me. By the time I was aware of the attack, the towers had fallen. A high school acquaintance of mine was sight-seeing with her family and had to be evacuated from one of the towers as people fell nearby, and another lost his life in the Pentagon. I still can't imagine the magnitude of the horror of that. The attacks were pure evil and a war crime. To this day I can't bring myself to watch the documentaries that seem to play endlessly on sat TV.
Yes.
Every single time.
I should have remembered that, this morning.
The Italian shin beef dish (something between a Tuscan shin beef stew, bolognese, and ragù) did make it into the oven around half an hour late; however, given that it shall spend around six hours in the oven, this is not really a major concern.
I should have remembered that you need to double it, (this estimated preparation time) and sometimes, double it again, for an accurate estimate, or, simply assume that such preparation will take around 40-45 minutes and accept that an hour is often a much more likely estimate of how long the preparation will take.
However, I do wish recipes would give a realistic estimate of preparation time. This nonsense of "15-20 minutes" is both frustrating and misleading (not to mention downright inaccurate), and while it may, perhaps, be feasible if you are a professional chef (though I very much doubt that), in general, such recipes are not aimed at professionals, rather, they tend to be aimed at enthusiastic (and pretty experienced) amateur chefs.
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I wasn't born then, and so I have no recollection of it, but I hear the harrowing stories of the events. I wish I could understand and resonate with it more.
My parents were in from Israel so I took a couple of days off. I worked outside Manhattan so I would have no been able to get home that night if I hadn't. I was home when I heard people screaming outside and went out to see this.
I apologize for being graphic but you can see the tilted outline of the jet on the side of the building. Craziest day I can remember.
Remember the Fallen.
I apologize for being graphic but you can see the tilted outline of the jet on the side of the building. Craziest day I can remember.
Remember the Fallen.
It was something....even now, that to me (and I'm sure many others) is still really unfathomable in a lot of ways. Those of us who were around at the time still are grappling with it, even those of us at a distance from what was happening on September 11th that day, and can't really understand it, so it is understandable that now, years later, it is puzzling and confusing to young people today.
On what had seemed like a lovely, comfortably warm and sunny September morning, in my home in the Washington, DC suburbs I was online prior to heading out to work and had just finished catching up with some emails in an international group email "loop" when someone in a new email mentioned the "terrible thing happening in the US....." Huh? What was she talking about? Instead of shutting down the computer as I'd meant to do, I thought, "oh, well, I'll hop into the local paper's website (The Washington Post) and just see what's going on before I close down the computer and head off to work...."
I hit my usual bookmark for the paper and what came up on the screen -- a photo and weird, blaring headlines -- was so unbelievable, so astonishing that I thought, "someone must've hijacked the paper's website -- this isn't real!" I tried again, this time carefully typing in the URL and got the same results. I jumped to another news website and then began to have the horrifying realization that maybe yes, this WAS real, it WAS happening, and it was totally, completely unfathomable and horrific. Our innocence was being shattered, our lives were being forever altered.
I turned on the TV and....well... it was just overwhelming, unbelievable and something which no one who actually experienced it whether right there in NYC or at the Pentagon (the survivors) or anyone elsewhere at home or at work or some other place staring at a television screen in the US and around the world witnessing all of this unfolding and happening will ever, ever be able to forget.
Mate, I remember JFK...
It was certainly a day i’ll never forget too. I was eating a sandwich watching an Aussie soap called Neighbours, 19 years old at the time, when the channel was interrupted to show the coverage of plane one. I remember my family coming home soon after and we sat there for hours watching it all unfold. It was one of those moments in history where the consequences felt terrifying and ultimately were for millions of people across the World. I avoid all coverage of it now though as we’ve seen so much of it over the years.
I’m still so saddened at this day..
Looking back.
I was born in 1962, 21 years after Pearl Harbor and being bombed by Japan.
I have zero recollection of that except of course from history, WWII, and all that.
Now Japan is one of our strongest allies.
We fought al-Qaeda / the Taliban post 9/11/2001 thru 2021?
Where will we be in 10/20 years?
9/11 RIP all those souls whose lives were so wrongly taken from them 22 years ago.
May your loved ones find some measure of peace.
I was in Mexico City on business , over 2,000 miles away, in work meetings.
Took a break to talk on the phone with my log home builder in Howell Michigan who needed direction on pendant lighting above our kitchen island, he told me "America has been attacked, bombs at WTC!"
I was shocked, and then saw info via dial up modems only, this was pre fast internet.
Finally Mexican work staff found a TV and put it on just in time to see the first then second tower fall, I openly cried in front of many people.
stuck in Mexico for 4 days till Saturday 9/15.
All alone in Mexico City airport, just CNN, never cried so much nor felt so alone in all my life.
Mexican news showed pictures and horror that were not published in American newspapers nor show on TV.
As I take in a heavy breath at certain points of the day today, reflect and remember, and never forget. I was stuck in Mexico city Airport Tuesday 9/11 till Saturday 9/15, will never forget it. We even boarded a flight on Friday 9/14, was on the runway, then went back to the gate because USA airspace was still closed. Then Saturday 9/15 we finally were able to really depart, I remember when we crossed over into USA airspace the captain announced it over the PA and the applause was deafening, people openly crying and screaming.
God bless America, land that I love.
RIP all those souls who were lost in this tragedy.
#September11 #WTC
Looking back.
I was born in 1962, 21 years after Pearl Harbor and being bombed by Japan.
I have zero recollection of that except of course from history, WWII, and all that.
Now Japan is one of our strongest allies.
We fought al-Qaeda / the Taliban post 9/11/2001 thru 2021?
Where will we be in 10/20 years?
9/11 RIP all those souls whose lives were so wrongly taken from them 22 years ago.
May your loved ones find some measure of peace.
I was in Mexico City on business , over 2,000 miles away, in work meetings.
Took a break to talk on the phone with my log home builder in Howell Michigan who needed direction on pendant lighting above our kitchen island, he told me "America has been attacked, bombs at WTC!"
I was shocked, and then saw info via dial up modems only, this was pre fast internet.
Finally Mexican work staff found a TV and put it on just in time to see the first then second tower fall, I openly cried in front of many people.
stuck in Mexico for 4 days till Saturday 9/15.
All alone in Mexico City airport, just CNN, never cried so much nor felt so alone in all my life.
Mexican news showed pictures and horror that were not published in American newspapers nor show on TV.
As I take in a heavy breath at certain points of the day today, reflect and remember, and never forget. I was stuck in Mexico city Airport Tuesday 9/11 till Saturday 9/15, will never forget it. We even boarded a flight on Friday 9/14, was on the runway, then went back to the gate because USA airspace was still closed. Then Saturday 9/15 we finally were able to really depart, I remember when we crossed over into USA airspace the captain announced it over the PA and the applause was deafening, people openly crying and screaming.
God bless America, land that I love.
RIP all those souls who were lost in this tragedy.
#September11 #WTC
They just forgot to tell you that you needed a sous chef to have all the ingredients prepped; pans out and ready to use; and all herbs and spices lined up on the counter in pemeasured little dishes like you see on on the culinary shows. THEN it takes 15 minutes :0))
That Apple Event was incredibly boring... first one where I actually stopped watching in the middle of it...
I think that you have nailed it.
However, when you are your own sous chef, well, then, it does take a little longer. Actually, it takes a lot longer.
What you talking about? AW double tap sounds great. But I’ll admit it does remind me of what a hitman does!
My favourite bit was seeing one of the products we make in the background.