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.
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.
I have some Aveeno oatmeal stuff. I will try that.
I have some Aveeno oatmeal stuff. I will try that.
Also, don't scratch through to your internal organs.
Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care holds candlelight protest outside Joe Lieberman's CT home:
"When we heard not only would he vote against it, but he'd use his power, his position as a swing vote ... to block it from coming to a vote, we had to send a message so he knows people who vote overwhelmingly favor the public option," said Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, of Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford.
On Sunday, clergy from several religious dominations prayed in three languages outside the fourth-term senator's home on Strawberry Hill Avenue, surrounded by a crowd the Fire Marshal's Office estimated to number nearly 500.
After several failed attempts to schedule a private meeting with Lieberman, the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care thought instead they would come to him, said the Rev. Abraham Hernandez, one of the group's eight co-chairs.
On Sunday, clergy from several religious dominations prayed in three languages outside the fourth-term senator's home on Strawberry Hill Avenue, surrounded by a crowd the Fire Marshal's Office estimated to number nearly 500.
STRAIGHT TO HELL LEIBERMAN! You know that if "several religious denominations" are all on the same page against you, you are WRONG.
I imagine they were a bit too classy to have signs of Joker-face Leiberman.
