Archive for December, 2004

Recipe: Marinated Portabella mushrooms

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

I googled “sliced marinated portabella mushrooms” and found this recipe in the #4 position. Go click the link if you want to see the original; below is the recipe with my modifications*. I think it’s going to turn out really well, but it’s marinating in the fridge overnight at the moment. I’ll let you know [...]

Did I miss International Backwards Day?

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

My brain boggled in confusion the other day as I listened to my daily dose of Hugh Hewitt. Senator Clinton has decided that the only way to win in 2008 is to come down hard to the right of President Bush: “Bush has done everything he can to leave the doors wide open,” said Robert [...]

We’re back (again!)

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

Regular readers of Crazy But Able may have noticed that the site has been down for the past couple of days. I’m told this is due to a minor screwup on the part of Verizon, which somehow also involved Sprint and, despite being relatively minor, took them more than 48 hours to fix. I’m of [...]

Errant Edwards vote an electoral shock

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

Most of the Minnesota bloggers that I know have given up entirely on reading the Star Tribune, but I’m still puzzled why nobody else has picked up on this. (UPDATE: I somehow missed this post by Captain Ed, who is, embarassingly enough, the very first link on the MOB Blogs list over there to the [...]

Google Suggest Hacking

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

Alright, this is pretty darn cool: “Google Suggest: As you type, Google will offer suggestions.” This got me to thinking: what happens when you type in nonsense words? Specifically, what’s the shortest “word” which gives zero suggestions? After a bit of searching, I found a three letter nonsense word: “zcj”. About five minutes later, I [...]

GrnSldwithCrnbrryVinigrtt

Friday, December 10th, 2004

I made this salad last night; it’s a good recipe, but needs a few modifications. First off, the dressing. When I got done making it, I asked myself rhetorically: “Is this supposed to taste like olive oil?” So if you decide to give this a shot, do what I did: Add two tablespoons of sugar, [...]

Famous Atheist Now Believes in God

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

Famous Atheist Now Believes in God: The first hint of Flew’s turn was a letter to the August-September issue of Britain’s Philosophy Now magazine. “It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,” he wrote. [...] Flew told The Associated Press [...]

I, for one, welcome our cute, cuddly uterus overlords

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

Boing Boing recently linked to this post on how to knit a cute, cuddly uterus. But from this angle, I think it looks like an angry, bitter uterus.

I’m back.

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

Well, I didn’t go anywhere. I just ran out of words and didn’t have anything to say. Slaving away in the Word Mines for a few weeks replenished my cache of words and got the silence out of my system.