Late to the party, no time to prep: I'd like to have a collection of recipes that can be manufactured just-in-time; dishes that I can throw together in under 10 minutes with minimal use of kitchen tools. Bonus points if you can assemble the entire dish right out of the shopping bag. MacGyver me some meal ideas!
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Middle School book club for adults! A group of friends and I have recently started a book club featuring middle school literature. The first book we read was The Giver and the resulting discussion was amazing. I am looking for more books like this - young adult literature with larger themes. We have also considered Island of the Blue Dolphins and A Wrinkle in Time. What other books would you recommend?
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Since the Goldsmith's Conference of 2007 (which saw the formal embrace of the name), the movement known as
Speculative Realism has, by some accounts, "revivified" philosophy. Led by the young philosophers
Ray Brassier and
Quentin Meillasoux, the movement is becoming known for its two-pronged critique of both the
continental and
analytic philosophical traditions. Speaking crudely, the goal is to fashion a "transcendental materialism" that puts the continental tradition in a better position to engage with the evolving insights of experimental science (particularly cognitive science, biology, and physics), while revising the analytical tradition's tendency to a "scientistic" and "naive" materialism. On the whole the philosophy tries to be less human-centric, acknowledging a world indifferent to human knowing and human being, while still acknowledging the problem of epistemic contingency. Brassier is also a leading proponent or investigator of
nihilism, which will please Big Lebowski fans.
posted by macross city flaneur to MetaFilter at Nov-17-09 at 7:25 PM
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I'm semi-obsessed with type (although probably more obsessed than I'd care to admit given I got FPPed for writing about once). Indeed, myself and several other semi-obsessives (all of whom work in the publishing industry in some way) actually have an ongoing competition. The objective is to keep an eye out for the most unexpected or inappropriate i...
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Oh God. OK. I read this story with a slight ripple of panic, because something happened to me in 1993 and maybe had it happened in 2009 my life would have changed for the worse. All this is true. Here goes. Apologies for typos, I've had half a bottle of wine.
I was 14. When I was 14, I was the least streetwise teenager out of a host of unstreetw...
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I've got nothing really to offer this conversation except to put a e-face to medicinal marijuana.
In May of 2000 I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The treatment involved three cycles of chemotherapy, each of which was five days on, 16 days off. My cancer had reached stage II and the tumor was pressing on my aorta, causing considerable pain...
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I’ve been composing the letter from my 60-year-old self that would have been of some real use at 16: things I wish I’d known earlier. “Dear Me . . .
If you see a dog, try dressing it in funny clothes. If you see a dog that's already dressed up, take a photograph. Always shave against the grain of your stubble. More than two blades is ridiculo...
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I considered Lady Gaga a guilty pleasure until this last video came out. I think it epitomizes all of her potential as a star and artist. All of it, down to the intentionally cheesy Europop backing, is commentary. And all of it is a mask, revealing practically nothing about the person at the helm. That's a really difficult feat to pull off, becaus...
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Um, uh
So it's a running joke in my family that I do not win raffles. Raffles, lotteries, sweepstakes: anything that involves getting selected by chance? I don't win. On the other hand my dad, my SO, and my son are like raffle magnets, if any of them enter a game their numbers will get drawn at least once (like ColdChef!) I've actually...
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Things get really, really ironic for the teabagging crowd when you read the psalm in its full context. Let's walk through the verses, which are being penned by King David of Israel:
O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent, for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues. With word...
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Like, what's this stupid little lamb stuff?
BECAUSE THE LAMB FALL IN LOVE WITH THE LION (READ BIBLE TO GET THE REFERENCE) AND EDWARD IS A LION AND IN THE FIRST ONE HE SAY "WE'RE LIKE LION AND LAMB" AND BELLA SAYS LIKE "I GUESS IM A PRETTY STUPID LAMB" AN EDWARD IS LIKE "I AM A PRETTY MASOCHISTIC LION"
BUT THATS ...
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My wife is an elementary teacher and was fired from a job once for refusing to say the pledge. She didn't ban her students from doing it. She didn't even explain why she wasn't doing it. (It wasn't for the same reason as Will's refusal.) She just made "pledge leader" one of the duties that the kids--5th graders--rotated through and sa...
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On the serious side of things: Ladies in hetero relationships, your man does not want to hear you vent about your problems. This is not because he is unsympathetic or does not care-- quite the opposite, in fact. For a man, problems must be solved. To learn about a problem that directly impacts his woman (whom he must protect at all costs) is exactl...
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