progeny

Old Cookbooks

This is totally cool...

Feeding America

A whole lot of cookbooks from long ago, including a Swedish-English one. The Woman Suffrage Cook Book has an eerily familiar recipe for "Escallopped Oysters":

Soak cracker-crumbs in milk. In the bottom of a pudding-dish put a layer of the cracker-crumbs, on this a layer of oysters, seasoning with pepper, salt, a little lemon-juice or vinegar, plenty of butter, adding some of the oyster liquor; on this put another layer of soaked crumbs, then one of oysters well seasoned, continuing these layers till the pan is full, a layer of crumbs being on top. Brown well, and serve hot.

World Year of Physics

I learned today that 2005 is the World Year of Physics. As part of this, a group of physicists are keeping blogs!

Another interesting science site to check out is Edge. It has pretty awful organization, but interesting articles. I like this one. What do you believe that you cannot prove?

Happy Friday.

Love,

Laura

Just a little gloating

to those of you in the frozen northlands:  It is currently 53 and sunny outside here.  It's the perfect weather for walking around in a light sweater, and it's absolutely beautiful.  Man, I love living in Tennessee.  Granted, it'll probably change soon, being as it is Tennessee, but for now, it's lovely!

Has Dr. Dobson Flipped Out?

One of the funnier comments I've seen on the supposedly "pro-homosexual video" starring Spongebob Squarepants was, "You don't really see that much of Spongebob, but I did notice that Winnie-the-Pooh isn't wearing ANY pants."

Where was Focus on the Family when we were kids? I mean, what was really up with Bullwinkle and Rocket J. Squirrel? Heckle and Jekyll? Yogi and Booboo? Tom and Jerry? And then we have the sad case of Chip and Dale -- those little fuzzy guys are now the power behind the scenes of the male "dancers" called the Chippendales.

What a pity Dr. Dobson can't find something really important to focus on, like the fact that nearly nine million children in this country have no health insurance. But no -- it's far more important to protect kids from dancing cartoon characters than from real dangers. Sheesh.

The Fiance, Josh

Well, I think he's cute.

More funny news

Another gem from the Star Tribune today:

Norwegians confused by Bush family's 'Satanic salute'

see this or the original story.

The pictures are good, too:

Hope this makes you laugh as much as me.

Love,

Laura

T-Shirts

Readily available -- a nice selection at
CafePress
as well as some with graphics at
Ban T-Shirts

Very tempting...

A new pyramid?

"THE FOOD PYRAMID: The guidelines will be used to update the familiar food pyramid within the next couple of months. Among the possibilities is the pyramid taking on a new shape."

--From Newsday.com

= Circle?

My other favorite from today's news:

"The time for diplomacy is now."

--Condoleezza Rice

Next week, back to our usual programming. Which, by all reports, included lying about Social Security. See this.

Love,

Laura

P.S. In some cruel joke, the weather man told me it was supposed to be warmer today (as in above 0). They forgot to mention the wind chill.

"Take me, to Siberia
In the coldest weather of the wintertime..."

cold

-17 In Minneapolis!  Poo gosh!

There must be something in the water.

Josh proposed yesterday, and I said yes before he came to his senses.  It was all sweet and romantic and what not.  So.. yay!