02 Dec 2004, 9:57 a.m.

Spilling the Beans (Into the Soaking Water)

An incredibly funny Good Eats moment: "Okay, they won't explode."

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02 Dec 2004, 8:47 a.m.

Includes A Link To Wikipedia!

My third article in Salon and the only one that talks about Leonard the whole time. It's worth it to read a Cook's Illustrated, even if, like me, you seldom cook. The articles read as …

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01 Dec 2004, 17:26 p.m.

Geeks

Once upon a time I thought I would write a CES entry entitled "A Thousand Voices: Augury and sympathetic magic". But I have no idea why I would have done that or what topic I'd …

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30 Nov 2004, 18:18 p.m.

"the acatalectic record of mankind"

Heavy metal yet again exceeds my expectations. Sort of via Airline Reviews.

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30 Nov 2004, 17:02 p.m.

It's Pompousness Night Here at Sumana's

Which is worse - listless lost apathetic purposelessness or strangled forced direction? The anchor that drowns or the loosed sail that any wind can blow away?

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30 Nov 2004, 12:33 p.m.

I Experience Cinema, You View Film, He Watches Movies

I should have checked CAPAlert before taking my mom to Ray; it would have warned us about the excessive sex. Probably the only major movies out that I could comfortably watch with my mom are …

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29 Nov 2004, 16:02 p.m.

More Than Reading Schneier At Lunch, This Reveals My Geekiness

Today I suddenly got mad about the Mercator Projection.

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29 Nov 2004, 15:44 p.m.

Books I Read When I Was Too Young to Really Understand Them

Back to Eden. A denunciation of modern, unholy, unhealthy eating patterns, and a handbook of herbs and more natural healing methods. Lots of enemas. This fascinated me for the anecdotes; I just flipped through the …

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28 Nov 2004, 10:56 a.m.

Then Again, Seeing "Kinsey" With My Mom Would Have Been Pretty Awkward

Sumana is back from a DC Thanksgiving. I picked up the slip opinion of Leocal v. Ashcroft at the Supreme Court, saw my old pal John Stange, sightsaw with my sister and cousin, and ate …

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23 Nov 2004, 21:34 p.m.

It's A Faaaaaaake

Leonard and I watched a bit of an America's Test Kitchen about Chicken Diavola, which does indeed mean "devil-style." CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL: So tell us a little bit about Chicken Diavola. Diavola. Am I saying that …

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