... you can read and write all night.
(And think of using the old Althouse Portal to Amazon. I myself used Amazon today. I bought some vanilla extract. I put it in plain yogurt, along with some Sucradrops, to make a low-carb meal-dessert.)
July 20, 2018
At the Reader's Café...
... you can read and write all night.
(And think of using the old Althouse Portal to Amazon. I myself used Amazon today. I bought some vanilla extract. I put it in plain yogurt, along with some Sucradrops, to make a low-carb meal-dessert.)
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Plain yogurt is good with a small milkbone in it, the dog thinks.
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I wouldn't trust the toxicology of Sucralose. I know it's not logical, but chlorinated hydrocarbons turn me off. Just add whole fruit to the yogurt and make it real food. Blend yogurt, vanilla, a little milk, frozen mango and manolo tangelo to create a orange creamsicle smoothie. Go crazy and add some Lindt Excellence Bar, 85% Cocoa Extra Dark Chocolate.
There is an image in those dots.
Another day, another Muslim immigrant knife attack, this one on a bus in Luebeck, Germany.
Michael Pollan says you shouldn't eat anything that your Grandma wouldn't recognize.
“Just add whole fruit to the yogurt and make it real food.”
Fruit is overrated.
I have very little sense of smell to taste, so lumps of fruit in yogurt sounds awful to me. I'd rather eat nothing.
Smell or taste, I meant.
Texture and mouthfeel are important to me. Yogurt is creamy. Fruit would make it fibrous and lumpy.
that pic with your pic there to the right of it is a great combo
I feel as though I should recognize the artist at least, but I'm drawing a blank. Good thing I got my degree in mathematics and not fine arts.
Henry Kissinger has outlived Tab Hunter, and Tab Hunter lived a long life. Considering the era in which Hunter lived, he must have led a reasonably sane life. They're having a Tab Hunter festival on TCM. I watched one movie for about ten minutes. He was an exceedingly bad actor. All things considered he had a fortunate life.
In an effort to bring younger fans to the ballpark, the Montgomery Biscuits are hosting "Millennial Night" this weekend, but their advertising on social media set off an eruption of mixed feedback from the very group they’re trying to attract.
The Tampa Bay Rays’ Double-A affiliate, currently with a record of 15-11, tweeted last week: “Want free things without doing much work? Well you're in luck! Riverwalk Stadium will be millennial friendly on Saturday, July 21, with a participation ribbon giveaway just for showing up, napping and selfie stations, along with lots of avocados.”
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/07/19/millennials-outraged-after-baseball-team-advertises-millennial-night-with-avocados-participation-ribbons-and-napping-stations.html
A bullet nixes lumps
William - Damn Yankees was a great movie.
Also, all actors are bad actors, don't hate on Tab Hunter. It is actually impossible to persuasively pretend to be someone you are not. The trick is not being a good actor, the trick is being the sort of person that people like enough to suspend their disbelief for.
Seriously, I like Ralph Richardson and Loretta Young, and Peter Lorre and Terri Garr, and a couple others, out of the half dozen or so people who were actually competent actors, but - and I say this as a fan of movies - even Olivier and Meryl Streep, a step down from Richardson and Young , and Lorre and Garr, were not only bad actors but were fantastically bad actors.
Why? Because it takes a lifetime to be the person God wanted you to be. Some little rich kid who went to a rich kid school, like Olivier or Streep both did, is going to convincingly be someone else without having lived it? Not likely.
And even Richardson, one of the best of actors, never once convincingly played a role, he was only as good as he was because he spoke so well and with so much apparent evidence of feeling.
Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883
Woman Reading, 1879/80
Oil on canvas
24 1/16 x 19 7/8 in. (61.2 x 50.7 cm)
Inscribed lower left: Manet
Thanks https://images.google.com/!
Not enough discussion about golf on this blog. That’s something you maybe could work on, Ann.
Twenty years ago, a boy of eight sat in front of a decrepit black and white TV and tried to make out the suited figures walking across that desolate surface. If he thought hard he could remember Gemini. His father could remember Lindbergh. He couldn't appreciate how immeasurably far the world had come since Kitty Hawk, how impossibly great an effort had been expended since 1961, but he knew what was important and he was there watching. He heard the words that everyone knows, and he watched until that strange buglike craft lifted and returned the men whom history had just rendered immortal to their companion in orbit and from there back to the embrace of the mother planet. He knew where he was going when he grew up.
Twenty years later, when the future he had planned on has been bargained away, he's sure of fewer things. He does know that he had the privilege that July day in 1969, of living through the event to which all previous human history will be just a footnote. And he knows too that whatever else may happen, there will still be ...
footprints on the Moon.
Meanwhile, time to start disbarment proceedings against Michael Cohen.
and... footprints on the moon is NOT a big deal.
Armstrong, a government employee, did the tax-funded job he was asked to do. I mean, good for him, but lots of people did more difficult jobs.
Was he a good cop? No, he was not a cop, Was he a good teacher, no he was not a teacher. Did he build bridges,, did he write a good novel, did he write a single line of poetry? No, no, no.
It was just the moon. Rockets were 30 or 40 years old at the time. Sure he was brave but (I speak as a man) we were all brave when we were that age.
So please do not tell me that all the brave people who lived before him were "just a footnote".
Siggi's yogurt mixed into Naked juice smoothies - the one great thing I learned in Santa Fe. But not the ones with protein or vegetables. Berries, bananas, strawberries, oranges. And, for sure, no lumps or fibres.
rhhardin said...
Plain yogurt is good with a small milkbone in it, the dog thinks.
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7/20/18, 8:08 PM
On what evidence? Never mind profundities about knowing the inner workings of a dog's mind. You show literally hundreds of photos of a dog being offered yogurt a la milkbone, and not eating it or even sniffing it. The milkbone may as well have been immersed in the dog's own shit for all the attraction shown. Why would you think the dog thinks the yogurt is good? He or she seems embarrassed by your attentions.
Neil Armstrong --
Korean War vet, test pilot, saved the manned space program when Gemini 8 went deadly wrong but was saved by Armstrong to prevent the first deaths in space, college professor teaching engineering (building things), and very modest in never seeking fame or fortune after Apollo 11.
(I speak as a man)
Yeah, let's not get carried away there and overstate the case.
Howard said...
I wouldn't trust the toxicology of Sucralose.
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Go for stevia'
Different fruits have different glycemic index
Mark - you seem to think you are remarkably witty.
Arstrong was a rude, rich government employee.
I am poor, I fought in a war and got shot at too. Armstrong made hundreds of thousands of dollars off his government employment, I lived a life of poverty after fighting for my country,
Fuck you, Mark. you chickenshit bastard.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/07/20/study-chicago-rat-capital-u-s/
hey mark maybe you spent time with me overseas fighting a war.
or maybe you didn't.
if you did, good for you.
if you didn't, you are a chickenshit bastard who just made fun of someone who was fighting for your country while you were eating donuts, safe and sound, you chickenshit bastard.
You still having your tantrum?
You're awfully touchy.
Armstrong would have bern the first to tell You, it was a job like any other,
Msrk: sorry, people tried to kill me because I was fighting for America, long before the internet was invented.
Years later, I expressed - on the internet - a common opinion about fancy astronauts, all of whom became rich.
And some little chickenshit fan-boy bastard like you mocked me.
Next time I am visiting a cemetery where thousands of my fellow soldiers are dead in their graves, I will not remember your attempts to insult me.
Tomorrow you can be a better person. Look, I hope you enjoy every donut you ever eat. And I also hope you understand, some day, what it is to be an honest person, who speaks in an honest way.
mark - I almost died in the line of duty, by the way.
I lost several quarts of blood. Multiple broken bones, a ruptured spleen, and several hours of excruciating pain, 98 percent of people who have lost as much blood as I did are now dead, and the other two percent were almost all much fatter than me, with lots more room for loss of blood,.
interestingly, I have to admit, before I almost died, I too was an astronaut fanboy, i thought they were sort of heroic..
No more. Everybody who does anything difficult is brave, I know that now. I don't believe in heroes like the astronauts --- they were rich kids who had a good time on expensive vehicles. Well, except for the ones who died, like Gus Grissom, but I know what that feels like, and.a death like that is quick and painless, Assuming you have accepted God in your heart and Jesus as your savior, it is no big deal.
Anyway, thanks for the interesting conversation.
and yes I am awfully touchy.
I do not like being one out of a thousand Americans who know exactly what it almost feels like to die for your country, and to be mocked when I make some neutral comment about some rich astronaut who hardly ever worked a day in his life.
Thanks for reading.
Do the Biscuits know what a millennial is? The oldest millennials are almost 40 now!
I didn't recognize it immediately- clearly impressionist, but I missed the book she was reading at first because it was so close up a photograph, but then it hit me.
My favorite of Manet is Music in the Tuileries Garden- never seen it first person, but it is in every coffee table book with impressionist work.
Where do some of these folks come from?
I met Bob Hoover at a small airfield in Oklahoma, where he was doing a show. He talked about a military pilot he sat in on a briefing, and the engineers told them they wanted the pilot to do something that perked Hoovers ears.
He looked at the military pilot and said, you realize they are asking you to do something outside of the flight envelope, right?
The military pilot said "Hoover, you civilian pilots can go hang out in the break room and get your high salary, but we have work to do here, so buzz off!"
Another smoking hole. Hoover said the engineers just shrugged. Oh well, I guess you can't do that after all. The sad thing was, they always named a street after you after you splashed into the ground. Crash a big enough plane, and they even named the whole fucking base after you. All you have to do is say no thanks to the engineers, and they will find some other stupid guy.
The goal is, he said, to die in your bed as an old man. Anytime you leave the ground it's dangerous enough, you don't have to add any stupid to it.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Jeeze Etienne, I can’t imagine where people get the notion to resent arrogant government employees...
@Stephen Cooper, may I ask which war? Mine was in the 1960's and early 1970's, and if you were in one of the later wars, like Afghanistan or Iraq, we had reason to envy you. In our day no one cared enough about getting soldiers home alive to rethink whether the barrels of our M-16s should be chrome lined for jungle warfare -- the Russians made sure that the weapons, including MiG-21 fighters, were capable of being used in humid conditions but the American attitude seemed to be that if soldiers die because their weapons jam then you can always just increase the next draft call. Even after it became clear that the M-16s in Vietnam needed differently calibrated buffer tubes and new barrels, it was not a priority for Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson or even Dick Nixon and Melvin Laird to issue weapons that would not jam in combat.
That this attitude continued into George W. Bush's day is exemplified by Donald Rumsfeld telling the troops -- HIS troops! -- that "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had." In World War II if something wasn't working, they fixed it. In Rummy's time, they told the troops to embrace the suck.
I hope Mattis is better. I suspect he is.
Anyway, thank you for your service. War is no effing fun and I'm glad you survived.
Thanks for the stevia suggestion, but I have tried it — more than once — and it tastes terrible. It's not something I will ever be able to use. I'd rather got without sweetness that get it at the price of that evil aftertaste. Your results may vary. I have a low ability to taste, so what I can taste comes through strong.
@Jon Erickson, that's a Manet??? My impression of his impressionism was based on paintings like "The Dead Toreador" and "Olympia" and "The Fifer." I'm going to have to look at some of his later works.
Reading the above exchange between Stephen Cooper and Mark, I can only conclude that Cooper is moby-ing.
Jon Ericson: Good call on the Manet!
Fruit would make it fibrous and lumpy.
I don't get the foodie obsession with adding different textures to smooth food. Hate it when they put crunchy shit on cake icing.
My only exceptions are (non-peanut) nuts on a hot fudge sundae, and pecans on seafoam candy (divinity made with brown sugar instead of white).
Saw Bob Hoover at several air shows. What a great pilot.
Steven Cooper, give it a rest.
From the Similes With Unfortunate Mental Images files:
We are doomed to a fierce battle that will end quickly if the Republicans hold the House of Representatives and Trump can get rid of Sessions and Rosenstein and indict his enemies, who have certainly asked for it. Or it could be dragged on for another six months if a frivolous impeachment case is mounted. We learned from the absurd impeachment of President Clinton that the effect on the target is like a revivifying enema, and he bounces back quickly.
"I do not like being one out of a thousand Americans who know exactly what it almost feels like to die for your country,"
If you had a bumper sticker that said "I know exactly what it almost feels like" you'd probably get pulled over a lot.
and to be mocked when I make some neutral comment about some rich astronaut who hardly ever worked a day in his life.
You should be proud of the fact that I'm an astronaut, because I sure am.
FYI Trader Joe’s has the 4 ounce pure vanilla extract for $8.99.
Also, eat whole milk yogurt. The creaminess of it gives it almost a natural sweetness.
You guys do know that yogurt is spoiled milk right?
@Fernandistein, I think you should team that with a bumper sticker that says "My Other Car is the SpaceX Dragon" and a rear window sticker that reads "Star Fleet Academy."
Speaking of astronauts...
By Grobthar's hammer, what a savings.
In 19th century Paris, did people speak of "Manet with an 'a'" to distinguish from "Monet with an 'o'"?
A 'revivifying enema'. Good grief! Sounds like something out of Dr. Strangelove.
Andrew said...
Speaking of astronauts...
By Grobthar's hammer, what a savings.
Great reference from one of my top five favorite movies of all time.
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