Monthly Archives: December 2007

Recipe Corner — Lentil Soup

There are prob­a­bly dozens of sim­i­lar if not iden­ti­cal recipes to this on the Inter­net, but I’m mak­ing a project of post­ing my reg­u­lar recipes here. My lentil soup recipe is a basic vegan mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the recipe on the Goya lentil bag.
1 cup dry lentils (1/2 lb.), sorted and rinsed
1/4 cup bar­ley or

Subvert the transit paradigm

Pub­lic tran­sit is a huge issue here in New York State, espe­cially the upstate/downstate allo­ca­tion of funds. Sub­way and bus fare costs twice as much in New York City as bus fare does here in Albany. More peo­ple here have cars, and their sys­tem is more com­pre­hen­sive, but the imbal­ance is still strik­ing

Plate tectonics or embroidery

Gen­er­a­tion Y biggest user of U.S. libraries — sur­vey
More than half of Amer­i­cans vis­ited a library in the past year with many of them drawn in by the com­put­ers rather than the books, accord­ing to a sur­vey released on Sun­day.
No sur­prise there–I’m embar­rassed to admit that I prob­a­bly would have answered the sur­vey the same

Hamster exercise

I put Vic­tor in a new cage, the one that for­merly belonged to Vio­let. This cage has a nice big wheel for a nice big ham­ster like him. He tried the wheel for about three min­utes, and is now back to try­ing to dig through the plas­tic floor for exer­cise.
As long as he

Laser Light Conversion

I brought home a few reams of fancy resume paper from my par­ents’ house. I’m going to lots of print­ing soon, and I also plan to do some print­ing to make greet­ing cards to sell on Etsy.
Last sum­mer, my inkjet printer died. I didn’t exactly mourn it–I got it for free with a rebate

all in the pointy ears

I’m not sure why this lolcheezburger made me laugh so hard, but it did:

They do look sort of sep­a­rated at birth, don’t they?
Our neigh­bors have a bea­gle puppy who’s about six months old. Their daugh­ter was walk­ing the puppy today…she’s a lit­tle older than I was when we got my first dog, Lady. The

Art for Commerce’s Sake

My last week of work, my car was buried in and under a snow­bank and I had to take the bus. Gas was get­ting expen­sive, too. From the bus, I walked through a long under­ground plaza to get to the build­ing where I worked. That week, there was a pre-Christmas craft show

surprisingly high

Am-I-Dumb.com — Dumb Test

Cuse dispatches

Molly McIn­tyre Northrup wishes you a merry Christ­mas!
Molly is a bit alarmed by the col­lec­tor prices for some of her favorite toys. I bought or received almost all of my Amer­i­can Girl stuff in the ‘90s, before Mat­tel bought the com­pany.
My Molly was made in Ger­many, and after that, the dolls were briefly

How could he?

I just don’t under­stand how it could enter someone’s head to do this to another crea­ture. Even a lit­tle ham­ster.
Teenager tor­tured ham­ster in ‘act of sense­less cru­elty’
A 14-year-old boy from Har­ro­gate sub­jected a ham­ster to a half-hour ordeal in which he put her in a freezer, a tumble-dryer and a wash­ing machine before she