This time, the family that I assumed the parking attendant was referring to included a dark-haired agnostic architect husband named Alex who liked ethnic food and zombie movies. (For the record, Alex is a product of my imagination. I realize that no real people are actually architects, and that it is a profession that exists entirely in movies, like art gallery owner or children’s bookshop proprietor.)

Mindy Kaling’s imaginary family, from the NYT via Pop Culture Junk Mail.

It’s just that there are people who ask questions when they should be pretty confident that the answer is not going to be common knowledge and that the person they have asked will have to do some research in order to provide an answer.  There are scenarios in which this type of question is acceptable, however a lot of the time these questions are asked by people who are either

1. sitting in front of a computer at the time of asking, or
2. asking the question via the internet.

This is where www.lmgtfy.com comes in handy.

Here’s how it works.  Somebody emails you/tweets/facebooks (is that even a thing?  Let’s assume it is) a question such as “Where do lemurs come from?”.  Now, the querier is clearly hoping that somebody reading the question will provide the answer.  Don’t do it!  Go to Let me google that for you and type in a the query where do lemurs come from.  Then copy the link that is generated.

Have a look at the comments on this brief David Sedaris article to see how it can work for you, even when dealing with complete strangers…

This is why I was excited when @melbournebitter tweeted a link to Daily Drop Cap.

Instant post, and a gorgeous resource!

Given how reliable her recipes are, I’m not sure what prompted the cook to search for an alternative recipe for a hotpot stock, but I’m glad he did.  It’s the most I’ve laughed in ages.

Halogen soup modulation

Modulation modulation soup pot is actually brine flavor. This is the key to making the most of a hot ring. Road and lo mei soup mixed, largely determine the success or failure of the pot. Sichuan hot pot, there Decoction halogen, with halogen broth, as well as halogen TANG, clear soup and three kinds of halogen.

Decoction halogen modulation method, is usually home to pan upper and lower oil (can be used butter, vegetable oil can also be used) after the heat, add chopped in advance (some to a smaller cut) of the Pixian Douban , ginger (if the Department is required to use film break) and the game has been dried in  Douchi Yongchuan  to red (if the recipe with garlic, should).   Then, doped soup until boiling, then under the cooking wine, Laozaoping juice, pepper, pepper, Sichuan salt, crystal sugar in the pot together.  Soup to be thick, rich aroma, spicy to sweet, they can, poured into the pot in to the exclusive use of.

I’m told that “halogen” is one of the definitions of the initial character, another of which is “red”, as in spicy (and, presumably, the correct choice).  The Google translation goes on, and continues to be fairly amusing, but it really hits hilarious when it comes to the list of ingredients:

Material

• about an old hen Old Fat Duck 1500 grams of
• about 1500 grams of a hoof
• a ham bone
• ham stick
• about 500 grams chicken breasts
• pig ribs
• 1000 grams pork
• 300 grams water
• 2500 grams restraint

15,000 law: (1) chicken and ducks slaughtered to hair, to internal organs. Hoof ham, bone scraping clean the stick. Pig meat, chicken breasts are, respectively, and dried into a cudgel with blade-like.

Given how I was feeling this morning when faced with the market crowd, I could have done with 2500 grams of restraint.

The particularly catchy jingle that goes with these words has been stuck in my head over the past few weeks, so it’s good to get the following answers from the New York Times:

Iraq and now.

On Friday, we left for Jacksonville for one night because the next day we were going to Guantanamo, Cuba!!!! Wow, my job is amazing!!!! I love it, I let you guys know next week how Guantanamo was …. Muah!

Posted by Dayana

Edit: fortunately the BBC grabbed a lot more from the initial blog than I did and it’s here.

Dayana reports that they had “a wonderful time” and “a loooot of fun!”.  In fact, it was “soooo beautiful”  and such “an incredible experience” that Dayana “bought a necklace … that will remind me off Guantanamo Bay ”.

I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.

They didn’t completely ignore the detainees:

We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting.

Dayana doesn’t say whether they remain at Gitmo because they heart it so much they don’t want to leave…

It’s a chimp!  Washing a cat!  (A very patient cat…)

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