Practice

[kinzel]

A day pocked with random thoughts as I sign and pack Allies. I'll update this in between book batches.

1) People who still think "practice makes perfect"... have never seen my signature...especially when I'm on iteration number 107 of a day...

2) Many cooks are guilty of spice-abuse. I abuse chopped chives, garlic, Old Bay Seasoning, and Duck Sauce. How about you?

3) My palate, my wallet, and my patience all conspire against my understanding the joys of single malt.

4) Wow, looks like the second chapter/installment of Fledgling is now paid for! I really do need to find a web-meter so readers can stay informed.

5) I wonder if experienced autograph collectors can determine mood and necessity from their autographs... you know -- "This is a 'I-need-a-pee-break signature' " ... and this is a "God, these seats are hard and the coffee tastes like chalk!" signature ... and this is a "this pen will damn-so finish this one even if I have to over-write three times...."

6) Have you ever had a case of the almost? In the last 24 hours I almost spilled a bowl full of olive oil... I didn't, but then I managed to drip what had sneakily slopped over the edge. Today I almost dropped an empty coffee cup... didn't, but the recover meant I splashed some of my milk around instead...

7) Does listening to loud music make it heard for you to see?

8) I wonder, are people of any particular blood type more at risk for specific diseases? If so, is it a function of the blood or the demographics, or some statistical fluke? Are some blood types stickier or redder?

9) I went through Korval's website's inner workings in the last few days, cleaning up old log files. Thousands of them, as it turns out. They add up, even at one a day, when you've been with the same ISP for going on 9 years...







1st update 9:16 AM
2nd update 9:38 AM
3rd update 4:05 PM

Comments

Spice abuse

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

I abuse parsley, garlic, rosemary, savory, cinnamon, mint, and italian seasoning. Esp. the parsley. I will not be without the bulk freeze dried parsley...I'd kill all my fresh stuff if I used it all the time, and winter kills it anyway. Actually, my herb garden is fairly representitive of what I abuse- savory, mints, rosemary, and parsley.

Ok, now I need to go fix breakfast.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Garlic is a vegetable, right? I put an entire head of garlic into bean soup a while back. It was sooo good.

As for other spices, I won't say I abuse them, but...we have a spice rack that holds sixty bottles--and they're all full, all different, and we have to refill frequently. They're alphabetized, thank god, or we'd never find anything.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I abuse garlic and cinnamon. I think that a clove of garlic per piece of bread is reasonable (it tastes).

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

hmmm...

guess we could make a list...

1)Garlic
2)Cinnamon
3)parsley

however, I admit to having... lightened ... my parsley use these days. You see, at one point we worked with a food co-op, and were very new there, and there was a note to us all that they'd gotten a price break on a couple of items... I was in a hurry that day and checked off that yes we wanted a pound of this and that... a pound of cheddar, a pound of whole wheat pasta, a pound of parsley.... sigh.

I'm here to say that a pound of dried parsley makes a decent-sized pillow! And a *lot* of parsley mashed potatoes

[anghara.livejournal.com]

1)Amen

2)What the HECK is DUck Sauce?!?

3)Amen, in spades

5) [snrch] you do realise that from now on I"ll be paying ATTENTION...?

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Duck Sauce is an orangey sweet/sour sauce found in oriental sections of grocery stores. It is fabulous with chicken tenders as a dipping sauce.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

And when used carefully, Duck Sauce makes an excellent secret ingredient. See "spice abuse" above...

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Psst.... DropCash (http://www.dropcash.com/). (Re: web meter)

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

ummm...

do I get to see what the thing looks like before I sign on a proverbial dotted line? I couldn't find a sample. Also ... I wonder if it's mutable enough to work on a series of goals...

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Check the About page and the blog for more details. I'm not sure how flexible it is.

[pimpcook.livejournal.com]

Practice doesn't make perfect with signatures. Look at any doctor or banker's signature... it approaches a straight line with a slight twitch in it. Practice makes LAZY with something like that.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen Rosemary Edghill's autograph? ... Maybe I should point out that when she signs, her arm motion reminds me somewhat of a knuckleball pitcher's windup and release....

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

I abuse basil, garlic and my personal poultry seasoning mix. But mostly freshly ground pepper. My sons start singing "Cruella deVille" at some meals.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

The only way to start appreciating single malt scotch is by tasting the atrocity that is *blended* scotch. I'd rather sip paregoric.

In regard to blood types

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Japan seems to have the expectation that blood types influence thinking, emotions, marital relations -- almost anything you can think of. I am often asked whether Americans have similar expectations about blood types, and usually disappoint people by admitting that I at least don't consider them to be related to much except transfusions. Then they usually ask me what type I am.

Here are some links related to this belief: http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/blood%20type.html

and a wikipedia article! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_blood_type_theory_of_personality

I'll bet you thought it was all in your head :-)

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

1) People who still think "practice makes perfect"... have never seen my signature...especially when I'm on iteration number 107 of a day...

Ouch. I feel your pain; I once had to sign 900+ participation certificates for an Odyssey of the Mind tournament. Never again; the next year I scanned and laser-printed my signatures.

2) Many cooks are guilty of spice-abuse. I abuse chopped chives, garlic, Old Bay Seasoning, and Duck Sauce. How about you?

I abuse chives, onion, shallots, thyme, orange peel, pine nuts, rosemary, ginger, and freshly grated nutmeg.

3) My palate, my wallet, and my patience all conspire against my understanding the joys of single malt.

My wallet conceded to my palate when my patience gave out, so I currently stock Balvenie 15-year-old and the Talisker 175th Anniversary bottling.

7) Does listening to loud music make it heard for you to see?

Sorry, can't read that, I've got Boston on the stereo...

8) I wonder, are people of any particular blood type more at risk for specific diseases?

Yes. Avoiding the bizarre holistic/neuropathic literature that claims all sorts of bizarre relationships, there are also credible clinical results. See, for example, this guy from Harvard (http://www.hhmi.org/cgi-bin/askascientist/highlight.pl?kw=&file=answers%2Fimmunology%2Fans_034.html) talking about blood types.

[melebeth]

It's difficult to take a scientist seriously when he refers to "Sickle Cell" as a blood type. Sickle cell has nothing to do with blood type. It's a hemoglobin mutation. But to answer the original questoin, blood types are linked to illnesses not only directly, i.e. because the antigen that definites the blood type confers some sort of advantage or disadvantage, but indirectly. Some genes that confer susceptibility to certain diseases are very close to the blood type genes. Therefore, since the closer two genes are on a chromosome, the less likely they're to be sorted independantly, they tend to be passed on together. Early research linking diseases to blood types provided some of the basis for mapping the human genome.

Blood Types

[(Anonymous)]

There is a book on blood types, "Eat Right for your Type". Among the foods mentioned as bad for my type, "O" is wheat. I have been gluten intolerant for the last six years, wheat is a principle antagonist, as well as rye, barley and sometimes oats. "O" is also considered the oldest and original blood type - stretching back to mother Eve probably. Nice to know it protects against something else.


Joan C

web-meter?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

4) Wow, looks like the second chapter/installment of Fledgling is now paid for! I really do need to find a web-meter so readers can stay informed.

Couldn't you use http://www.zokutou.co.uk/wordmeter/ for this? Just tell it you are writing 300 words, and whatever the current take is, eh voila, we have a web-meter? I know it isn't as neat as something tailored to the purpose, but you're already over the learning hump on this one, right?