Oh, it's crazy aggravating, no doubt. But I can never seem to remember I need to buy an actual one, and I don't know where I'd put it if I did.

I have two awesome looking pink rolling pins, but they are hollow plastic and therefore have no weight to them - awful to use. My regular standard size wooden one just goes in a drawer with things like melon ballers and salad tongs and whatnot kitchen stuff. It fits in diagonally.

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I haven't been able to internally justify a marble rolling pin, just a wooden one. Which goes in the off-size drawer like msbelle's. But if I had one as long as I wanted I'm not sure where it'd go.

I have a fab marble rolling pin, that I think I got at Lechter's going-out-of-business sale. It currently goes in the cupboard that has cookie sheet and etc.

I have a marble rolling pin, but I don't use it nearly as often as I use my big snooty French-style rolling pin. I like it because you never have to clean bits of dough out of the hinges.

I have a marble rolling pin that sits on a little stand on the counter and a wooden one that goes in a pullout wire drawer in the awkwardly shaped cupboard that couldn't usefully hold anything until I installed a drawer in it.

My standard pie crust is like that one but with more measuring and less smoking and no freezing of anything. Half as much butter/shortening (whichever I've got) as flour, and half as much water as butter, mixed with my hands and rolled out not nearly as thin as it's supposed to be. I don't know if it's flaky or tender, but it tastes fine to me. I do mean to try the CI recipe with vodka at some point, but that requires buying vodka.

I think we missed an opportunity for Buffista Island. Or Buffista Stadium.

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The Skynet/Roomba/cat conspiracy continues to develop: IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines

A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near. But this week researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory — 100,000 times as much as your computer has.

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The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., doesn't mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the progenitor of a race of robo-cats.

Of course, this doesn't mean that it isn't the progenitor of a race of robo-cats either.

Now I just want to see robo-cat in the same room with the rat-brain robot. And throw a Roomba in there for good measure.