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.

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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.

I have been trying to put lotion on it at bedtime, but it requires some contortions that are not really work-appropriate.

Regular hand lotion? If so, you should try something super moisturizing like vaseline or cetaphil. Also, put it on after you take your shower or bath to help keep the moisture in the skin.