Boingboing led me to Clara's Depression era cooking youtube videos. Clara is Italian and in her 90s. I can't stop watching them! Before I saw Clara's link I had eaten eggs and mushroom ( sly_girl 's recipe) on toast for dinner. It was yum, but at the time I was feeling a bit down and a bit lonely and a bit sad and sorry for myself. I've eaten a lot of canned food and eggs recently and...

Well. erudito came over and we ate some nice Vietnamese food and had a nice chat, not having caught up for a while. Unfortunately, I got to experience the food twice - once going down, once coming back up, but I'm okay now. And he took it all very calmly, I'm pleased to say. I'm not quite sure what the proper etiquette is for explaining to a dinner guest that you've just thrown up and had...

erudito   linked to this article about the removal of freedom of speech when what is said "might offend" religious types . Can you believe that the UN now employs people whose job it is to stop anyone "defaming religion"? I am very fond of my right to say "Your religious belief is not supported by what I know of reality, therefore I choose not to abide by your religion." I believe that...

Выборка разномастных текстов из сегодняшней френдленты: - Мы не перестаем играть, потому что мы взрослеем. Мы взрослеем, потому что перестаем играть. Есть всего лишь несколько составляющих Вашего успеха, молодости и счастья. Вы должны улыбаться и каждый день находить что-то смешное в жизни. Вам необходима мечта. Когда Вы перестаете мечтать - Вы умираете. Вокруг нас столько людей, которые мертвы и...

Noticed in erudito 's blog, which I urge everyone who loves good and intelligent commentary to visit, because it's one of the best blogs on Livejournal, was this from Benny Morris in the Jerusalem Post , "This Holocaust Will Be Different" ( http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1167467762531&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ) With a country the size and shape of Israel...

Yesterday a lovely social afternoon with many lj regulars (in no particular order): sjkasabi , [Bad username: martinlemerchant] , erudito , mrsbrown , mr_bassman , hometime (& JB), splodgenoodles , tenbears , monstah , doushkasmum , sacredchao , bar_barra , wystan and there may have been others... real...

Via erudito http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1070673/Terry-Pratchett-Im-slipping-away-bit-time--I-watch-happen.html

erudito , in http://erudito.livejournal.com/796864.html?mode=reply , points out The low risk and high return of current piracy on the high seas. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2008/11/26/the-business-case-for-high-seas-piracy/ I'm curious about this ... when did it become international law, or some Euroweenie delusion of international law, that navies could no longer do anything...

Louise McKenzie was a 14-year-old Girl Scout when she helped prepare dinner for the president of the United States as a way to show the American public that nutritious meals could cost very little during the early years of the Great Depression. In her Rosslyn home, a yellowed clipping from that April day in 1931 with President Herbert Hoover and his wife has been carefully preserved. She can still...

Finally! the bathroom cupboards are installed. Not photo-worthy yet, not until stuff is hidden/tidied away into said cupboards. Whew, hard work but worth it. Looks good, still feels airy even though there is more furniture. Tired now. The generous erudito   came twice today to help lift and/or hold things. Second time he got fed dinner in appreciation. I could tell you about the screws that were...