Leaving tomorrow.

[silveradept]

Yep, going to get in the vehicle and do a big driving thing down tomorrow. Will get in very late, so don't expect LJ entries from me until Thursday at the least.

Proving that ingenuity is always something in great supply, opening a Master Lock with a BART card. Doesn't that make you feel secure?

Taking a look at older covers and messages they may be intending to send, Battleship 1967 - where the boys play war and the girls do dishes. Speaking of playing war, it appears that the propaganda vehicle "America's Army" is doing its job, quite nicely.

Fox tried to prevent Clinton's smackdown from spreading. "Fair and Balanced", huh? You tried to paint Clinton as a do-nothing, and when he told you where to shove it, you want to get rid of the evidence? You sound like the government, Fox! Aren't you, as a news outlet, supposed to present the objective truth? If people haven't already dismissed you as having the Administration's hand up your collective asses, they should now. Also, GOP Aide busted for blog-bashing. Did it on government time and resources. Not good, not good. It's an election year. Which brings out the worst in everybody. This particular blogger thinks that come late October, we'll be bombing Iran, which would complete the trifecta of error. Considering Afghanistan is still a mess and it's reverting to its old self, starting a new war would be suicidal.

As part of their ventures to make education more available to all, colleges and universities are offering their courses on-line - although no degree credit is conferred for them. Here's a pretty good list of where you can find lots of free on-line courses for your own work. Many subjects, too.

Tesla statue unveiled in Canada. The inventor of the AC motor (among other things) receives some credit.

This is just cool - if it hasn't been linked before, it should have been. Mighty Optical Illusions. A blog of things meant to make you look twice (or more).

Speaking of trick to perform - a recipe for making salmon in your dishwasher. Additionally, a means of ensuring expensive equipment will be handled with care on flights.

And tomorrow, the boya goes several states away - I'll be back at some point Monday. You might get updates from me if I can snag a computer and some access. Otherwise, have fun...

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

We thought you were returning on Sunday? Have a safe trip, blah blah...

you know the drill. *hugs*

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

I've done dishwasher fish before, it works pretty well. You can use most any kind of fish really. The recipe I've got reads a little differently, but that's to be expected.

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[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering about how they would keep expensive equiptment safe while it has to be checked. I mean, I can take my laptop on the plane on a domestic flight still, but heading over to England, everything has to be checked. I know what happened to our musical instruments when we went to England in 1997 - two dented tubas, a bent trombone, a missing french horn, and a hole in the top of the timpani....and they want me to check my laptop?! I wonder how many laptops, cameras, guitars, etc. have already been ruined by British Airways with thier new regulations? I hope at least some of this crap gets resolved soon. Right after 9/11/2001 if you were traveling with a laptop they used to make you power it on, and get it fully into windows/mac/linux/whatever your OS was to proove that it was indeed a laptop. Why don't they go back to doing that? And if they're worried about the batteries combusting randomly...well, I'd rather toss my battery in my checked bag and not be able to use my laptop on the flgiht than have to check the whole laptop.

Breakin i nto a master lock is pretty scary, especially considering most schools and businesse sthat offer lockers to their employees assign master locks. Eeeek. I wonder if we'll hear about a rash of locker/bike thefts now?

Free 'net classes are pretty cool. I wonder if thought they wouldn't ever be able to be applied to a real degree, if they would be useful on a resume? Hmmm. An interesting thought, given all the HR courses offered for free...

I've heard of dishwasher salmon before. kind of a nifty idea. I especially like the "add lemon soap, it's ok you have the fish tightly wrapped in foil", because I think THAT's what would really freak out/impress your guests.

Anyway, like i said before, enjoy the trip. We will miss you.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

do you put soap in the dishwasher with the fish?

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

No. The risk of getting soap into one of the packets is too high for my liking.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

yeah, thats' what I was thinking too. I mean, even if you wrap it really tightly, it could still get in, or the foil could unwrap partially in the dishwasher.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

As a general principle cooking in your dishwasher is totally a good idea. If you don't like the idea of powerful blasts of water smashing into your food, run the dishwasher first. At the end of the rinse cycle (but before the dry cycle) quickly open the dishwasher, slide the food in and close. There's plenty of steam in the dishwasher still and the heated dry part will cook the food just fine.

[silveradept]

Definitely an interesting thought on something to do to amuse or otherwise make your guests wonder if you've left the realm of sanity.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

I used to do this to create steam chamber for 1) making large quantities of dimsum 2) helping bread rise (let it cool just a tad before doing this), yeast just goes crazy in warm moist air.

[silveradept]

Both great things to do with the dishwasher. Hopefully, I'll be able to impress someone with such a trick later on in life.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

PS:you totally should have set up voice posts to update us :D