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Entertain Me, Hive Mind
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"Spring Rolls ala Steelhead Diner
INGREDIENTS
-- about 4 ounces dried rice vermicelli
-- 1/4 - 1/2 green papaya
-- 3-6 carrots
-- about 6 cooked chicken fingers (I bought some from the deli at my local Safeway; you could bread and fry your own..." [
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2 weeks ago
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Help Me Learn About Design
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"If you used stuff from the freezer, it probably didn't cost too much. Throw it out, and chalk it up to a well learned lesson that the stock pot is not a garbage can!*
Try it again, but do this: roughly chop some onion, carrot, and celery. Saute..." [
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3 months ago
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Tricks, tips, and recipes for cooking with alcohol?
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4 months ago
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Paper Airplane Designs
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4 months ago
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"Basically you're just listening to where there's emphasis in the time, even if it's subtle.
For example: sing Mary Had a Little Lamb. Which notes are most accented? It probably sounded like this:
MAry had a LITtle lamb, LITtle lamb, LITtle..." [
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4 months ago
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"I hear you about the dorm food. You are doing the right thing by looking elsewhere for your calories.
Luckily, you don't need any fancy equipment to make pasta dough. Traditionally, it is made on a countertop. You will need flour, eggs, and a..." [
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6 months ago
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"Well, there's always my favorite joke:
Person A: "Knock knock"
Person B: "Who's there?"
Person A: "Control freak. OK, now you say 'control freak who?..." [
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9 months ago
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Help Me Learn To Use My Camera's Flash
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"For reference -- musictheory.net is a pretty good resource. There have been times where it has been more useful than a college-level theory textbook for my MUS 202 class.
Or you could just IM cortex, apparently...." [
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"Two things re: parsley: 1) never buy curly parsley; it has no flavor. You want flat leaf or Italian parsley. If you can't find or don't like that kind, you're better off just not bothering with it at all, especially if you don't use it very much in..." [
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"You want to look for a restaurant supply store. In the NW there is United Grocers; I'm sure there are similar ones near you. Call up your favorite non-chain restaurant and ask where they get things like big bags of flour. If they don't have it..." [
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"That's So ____"
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"As a musician (geez, I sound like such a snob), I value him for his phrasing. It's hard to explain until you listen to a bunch of Sinatra, but he has a way of constructing musical lines that sounds so easy and carefree. They say that the early..." [
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"If that is the case, the message obviously has to be in Norwegian. Perhaps some sort of humorously poorly conjugated phrase asking her out for a drink in "the March time"?..." [
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"IANAL, but I use the Arm and Hammer stuff. It's great. I believe they have a neutral scented one, and there is definitely a men's one that is pretty unoffensive; my SO (who is a lady) has used it before and likes it well enough. In fact, I know a..." [
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"If you're really concerned, you could also carry a prepaid, self-addressed mailer with you. That way if you were ever in a situation where you had to ditch it, you could at least easily send it to yourself at home...." [
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"You could advertise the fact that you're willing to use an escrow service. I bought a trombone for about $700 off of eBay 4 years ago, and was able to (for a small fee, natch) keep the horn for a week-long "trial period", in which I would..." [
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