MeFi comment:
"17-second chocolate chip blondie sundae:
- Place ~2 tbsp store-bought cookie dough in mug or dessert dish.
- Microwave on high for 17 seconds. May vary by a few seconds, but more than 25 seconds may end up burnt.
- Allow to cool. Heated..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by litlnemo, magstheaxe, MiltonRandKalman
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I was actually quite enjoying the juxtaposition.
Here, we have a mind-bending human achievement that highlights our physical limitations as tiny beings on a tiny planet, our insatiable desire for exploration, and our stubborn efforts to push..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by perilous, dejah420, Blazecock Pileon
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"You can hear the sounds without the narrator on this European Space Agency page.
I don't think the sound is so hideous. There are some quite musical things in there...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nicepersonality, gorgor_balabala
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Do not attempt to simplify behavioral neurology.
Gross brain anatomy and morphology is determined by genetics. Individual neural connections, refined morphology, and relative sizes in individual people are influenced by a delicate mixture of that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Tehanu
Last month
MeFi comment:
"b33j, they're mostly separate but not actually much apart. The ovary sits almost in the infundibulum (conical opening of the tube), which has fimbria (finger-like projections) over the ovary. Everything's held in place with ligaments and connective..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by b33j
Last month
Ask comment:
"A more likely candidate for you would be coconut chutney. You wouldn't have to be nuts to eat that by itself, but it's just not done." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spoobnooble
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Hmmmm... interesting. I'm not sure that the consistency of boxed brownies would be amenable to normal layering, like soft cake would. However, if I had to turn boxed brownies into a dessert suitable for a big bash, and wanted to retain a dominant..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vytae
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Haven't gotten to that yet. Still figuring out how not to judge 'Lethal Weapon' by Danny Glover." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hippugeek
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"five fresh fish: ... how about reading the fact-based document and acknowledging the truth of what it says. You're attacking the messenger. That may give you a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, but it doesn't help improve things.
Hm. Well, I read..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the other side, homunculus
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I dunno, mister, your loafing is not very creative, and seems to have been consistently lacking for the duration of the quarter. Maybe you should show up on Saturday to draft methods of improvement in that area...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by PsyDev, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I do actually wear sandals all the time, with no socks. All winter, I have been putting up with exclamations of "aren't your feet cold?"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mamapotomus
4 months ago
MeFi post:
the peculiarities of journal citation data
favorited 17 times, recently by with hidden noise, sebastienbailard, drill_here_fore_seismics, nicolin, amberglow, lodurr, sy, divabat, leibniz, lalochezia, Jpfed, streetdreams, scalefree, dtp, motty, tickingclock, ltracey
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Nobody taught us this game. I don't think it was about 'lava' or anything like that. It was about a novel, challenging way to get across the room and to compete with each other. You touch the floor, you lose. We didn't play this much, though...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AceRock
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Joey Michaels: I wish I could be more like Fred Rogers, but I'll have to make myself a much stronger person first.
Joey... I like you just the way you are. :)..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by grubi, Joey Michaels
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know after skimming this thread, I feel the need to point out that "organic" and "ethical" are not synonymous when referring to the humane treatment of animals. Don't get them mixed up...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dosterm
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"nax: This is nothing that hasn't been said here before, but nonprofits do not have a "product" and they do not have "profit" in the business sense that I put xx money in and get xxx money out, personally. They have a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nax
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"You need to learn that playing the field does not make you a slut. It is what the modern woman does. What you need to work on is your assertiveness being more comfortable with yourself. The modern woman does not let a man take the lead all the time...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by salvia
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Response to my email noting the major missing parts of the NYT followup:
Thanks for your email. I know there are many more details, but with readers pressing us for shorter and shorter stories these days, I get less and less space to tell stories...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Man... really, please consider just dropping the whole Phil thing-- both defense and offense.
Phil's been hated on and Phil's been defended. At this point, everyone's gonna remain where they're standing, so what's the point in continuing the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I like making things from scratch, but I also don't mind the boxed stuff. Newer recipes include boxed cake mix because the quality is pretty good these days, and the outcome is more consistent. It's just less sifting, measuring, and folding in all..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grateful
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Easy. Offer to babysit. Later, trips to the library, to the zoo, etc. You don't need to buy crap for the kid. The kid really doesn't appreciate it, and if you go overboard there's a chance the parents may resent it as well...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hannahq, mdiskin, AlisonM
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, goats are good livestock. They're ruminants so they can eat pretty much any plant matter, they're pretty hardy, they take up barely any space, they're highly mobile, you can breed them, you can milk them, you can eat them, and you can sell..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, divabat, Pantengliopoli, jkaczor
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Juni Ito also has a whole series about a community that becomes obsessed with spirals. Spirals are so interesting, after all. So mesmerizing and powerful. Many things have spiral shapes... a basket, a sea shell, the swirl of cream dribbled into..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Zazen is sitting.
Zazen is not sitting.
When you finally understand this, you are doing it wrong." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grouse
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It seems inevitable that at some point something is going to go very wrong when advice handed out on AskMe is taken too seriously by a vulnerable or gullible person. Having dealt with suicidal and schizophrenic people myself (although not in a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by happyturtle
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"This is the golden age of cheap oil. That means airline travel and well-maintained highway systems. That means disposable plastic and cheap clothes. That means fresh fruit in winter. So I'm in the 'travel well and eat well while you can' camp...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phrontist, ikkyu2
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Disney seems somehow less evil in Icelandic.
How conveeeeenient...
Yay for dubbing. :)" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by greenskpr
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Dredging other people's profile information is also a trolling favorite. By forum etiquette, it's just not something you do without an obvious benevolent cause, and maybe not even then. I like to make AskMe answers geographically specific to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If Rowling always thought of him as gay, why not mention it? How could it not be relevant in a series like this? All sorts of divisions and bigotry are fully covered, all sorts of backstory on other major characters are fully gone into, all sorts of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wires, redfisch
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Weebot et al, there's no reason that you have to accept the author's own interpretation of her writing, but this does make a whole lot of sense when you look at the character as whole. Twinkly-eyed, spangled purple velvet sense.
And Dumbledore is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"About every time I donate blood, my perception narrows down to just my immediate surroundings, and my fingers and toes and the tip of my nose feel like ice, and the world goes dark at the edges, and the next thing I know I'm squinting up at the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by unrepentanthippie
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd have no problem torturing a terrorist in order to preserve the most hallowed human right of all, "life" for those the terrorist might intend to kill.
A) We don't seem to be torturing anyone convicted of, or even charged with,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hell toupee, marble
9 months ago
Ask comment:
"The Family Cow by Dirk Van Loon.
So it's not precisely what I do. There don't seem to be any digestible books on that subject." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ilovemytoaster, nicolin
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think the "Serious Change" methodology is awesome, but I'd also like to point out that most demonstrations are not wild, drug-riddled, off-message raves. It should be no shock that what gets cycled through the media has largely been..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The more I read, the more I feel that the importance of classic literature is more historical than enlightening. There are more great works than anyone could ever read, available from any discipline across several centuries. Human success has..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, aparrish, buriednexttoyou, vertriebskonzept
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"One more reason to hate the Church.
Because as history proves, the more we hate, the quicker we solve the problem." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ethereal Bligh
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, and Office 2007 rocks.
That's funny, because Office 2007 makes me want to hurl my laptop out the window. I'm sitting here right now trying to format a chart in Excel. That took a while because apparently it's better to have all the options..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Terminal Verbosity
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Could you please tell me how they were trying to incite violence?
People in groups act stick together and tend to copy each other. This is human nature. If someone sits down to eat lunch, other people think, "maybe it's time for me to sit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RedEmma
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"loquax, I agree with you that the police have reason to closely monitor the situation, but there was definitely something fishy going on there. If the rock in your hand is part of your undercover costume, why not put it down when asked by a fellow..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zippy, the other side
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"They're not triangles, they're eight-sided Vibram logos.
Indeed, kowalski. Vibram's 134AR Technical Lug boots. The boot picture takes away any doubt about this situation...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
11 months ago
