I find it terribly difficult to remember how to inflect and aspect correctly 'A [inuit expression for a polar bear] is attacking me'. All the screaming makes me confuse all the endings. — Mitch6 mins ago
It's hard for me to think, actually. We have this thing called a cabbage tree, which is absolutely everywhere, and it's kind of like a poor cousin to the palm tree.
Let me check some places where there might be palm trees.
Impressive account of what it is like to work at a warehouse serving online shops, like Amazon.
> A hot spark shoots between my hand and the metal shelving, striking enough to make my body learn to fear it.
> There's no time off on Election Day. "What if I want to vote?" I ask a supervisor. "I think you should!" he says. "But if I leave I'll get fired," I say. To which he makes a sad face before saying, "Yeah."
Sounds like 19th-century England or modern-day China, or some dystopian future.
Here is a picture of the crash site, at Alpine Valley.
> Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI is located in Southeastern Wisconsin and is actually a ski resort. The helicopter that Stevie Ray Vaughan rode in crashed on the morning of August 27th, 1990 just after a concert there. The location is almost at the top of the ski hill off to the left. The stage is located directly behind the cameraman and the helicopter took off about where the cameraman is standing.
Seriously, most high school students have pimples that are bigger than those "ski slopes" up there. That helicopter should have been flying above 500 feet anyway. Keerist.
@BillFranke: Unless the abstract personification of Celebrity herself were doing the retweeting. In which case it's too bad we don't live in the 1890s, because that would make a fine engraving: Celebrity Retweeting Jayzee's Opinion of American Idol Judges. — Robusto2 mins ago
@tchrist Why is that worth an outpouring of jubilation?
The pilot was clearly an idiot. And the one thing they teach you for sure when you learn to fly is how awfully easy it is to die in an aircraft. The sky does not suffer fools gladly.
I can understand why they mock crab, but mock chicken? Come on!
> Surimi (Japanese: 擂り身, literally "ground meat", Chinese: 魚漿; pinyin: yú jiāng; literally "fish puree") is a Japanese loan word referring to a fish-based food product that has been pulverized to a thick paste and has the property of a dense and rubbery food item when cooked. It is typically made from white-fleshed fish (such as pollock or hake), but the term is also commonly applied to food products made from lean meat prepared in a similar process.
It’s just coagulated fish purée.
> Surimi is a much-enjoyed food product in many Asian cultures and is available in many shapes, forms, and textures, and often used to mimic the texture and color of the meat of lobster, crab and other shellfish.
Apparently, they like it.
It is the Spam of the seafood world.
> Lean meat from fish or land animals is first separated or minced. The meat then is rinsed numerous times to eliminate undesirable odors. The result is beaten and pulverized to form a gelatinous paste.
> Depending on the desired texture and flavor of the surimi product, the gelatinous paste is mixed with differing proportions of additives such as starch, egg white, salt, vegetable oil, humectants, sorbitol, sugar, soy protein, seasonings, and enhancers such as transglutaminases and monosodium glutamate
You think if it had been me doing it, it would have come out puree instead of purée?
> If the surimi is to be packed and frozen, food-grade cryoprotectants are added as preservatives while the meat paste is being mixed. Typically the resulting paste, depending on the type of fish and whether it was rinsed in the production process, is tasteless and must be flavored artificially.
> Although seen less commonly in Japanese and Western markets, pork surimi (肉漿) is a common product found in a wide array of Chinese foods. The process of making pork surimi is similar to making fish surimi except that leaner cuts of meat are used and rinsing is omitted. Pork surimi is made into pork balls (Chinese: gòng wán; 貢丸) which, when cooked, have a texture similar to fish balls, but are much firmer and denser.
> Pork surimi also is mixed with flour and water to make a type of dumpling wrapper called "yèn pí" (燕皮 or 肉燕皮) that has the similar firm and bouncy texture of cooked surimi.
> Beef surimi also can be shaped into a ball form to make "beef balls" (牛肉丸). Bakso is a popular beef balls dish in Indonesia. When beef surimi is mixed with chopped beef tendons and formed into balls, "beef tendon balls" (牛筋丸) are produced. Both of these products commonly are used in Chinese hot pot as well as served in Vietnamese "phở".
> Surimi is also used to make kosher imitation shrimp and crabmeat, using only kosher fish such as pollock.
> The curing of the fish paste is caused by the polymerization of myosin when heated.
> Before the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease), it was an industrial practice to add bovine blood plasma into the fish paste to help its curing or gel-forming. Today some manufacturers may use a transglutaminase to improve the texture of surimi. Although illegal, the practice of adding borax to fish balls and surimi to heighten the bouncy texture of the fish balls and whiten the product is quite widespread in Asia.
@DavidWallace I believe his point is that subclasses could add their own fields, of mutable types, with setter methods etc. — Grundlefleck1 hour ago
Compare the pronoun (or possessive adjective or whatever you want to call it) in that comment to the photo of the person to which it refers. Like, concentrate, seriously!
See, I never knew there was a Lake Geneva in Wisconsin until today. You surprised me, Tom, when you said you were born near Lake Geneva, because I was sure that you had said on an earlier occasion that you were born in America. So I had to go and do some research.
It doesn’t matter. It’s metric. It is supposed to be easy. You can just switch off like that.
Now try that in English. Nobody would get away with saying inches when they needed ounces. Well, unless they were doing alliterative poetry, I suppose.
Since all words beginning with vowels count as a rhyme of one another.
American fluid ounces must be larger than British ones. I make it a whisker more than seven. Anyway, I'm off to buy vegetables then visit my son. See you later.
My wife is writing a book, and just got a draft back from an editor.
The editor noted extra commas in numerous sentences like this:
He looked at her closely, but all she said was, "I am truly glad we will be living in a nice, safe fort, and not one of these wild frontier towns."
The extra ...
And you can measure by subtraction: I can put my jar of mayonnaise on the scale, tare it, then put some mayonnaise in the pan I have sitting on the fire, and immediately I can see how much I have added.
@cornbreadninja I do, several; but how many cups do I need to make dirty if I want to measure 5 ingredients that cannot touch one another? Or that will stick?