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Chaos / Re: what will you be doing tonight
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on April 06, 2024, 11:33:57 PM »Hopefully sleeping
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 05, 2024, 10:56:49 AM »You're a creative guy, 8ully. I suspect you could whip up your own taco sauce from scratch and it would be awesome.
I'm having the usual EG tea and scones. Boring and repetitive but delicious just the same.
I'm having the usual EG tea and scones. Boring and repetitive but delicious just the same.
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 05, 2024, 10:53:46 AM »So, here's the thing. I figured that BSG was an older series and that the 2000+ versions were some kind of revival that I'd missed. It looks like, from the earlier link you sent, that I've already seen it? Oh well. Then I'm bummed not to have found yet another unseen sci fi series. Thanks for bringing me up to date as I don't know that I would have been able to dig up the long discussion we'd had about BSG, which I enjoyed.
I'm reading a sci fi book recommended by a friend that isn't particularly good but I'm about ¾ of the way through so I'll finish it. My husband doesn't really like science fiction so I'm kind of on my own looking for new stuff. The current book, The Wild Shore, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is kind of slow and lame.
I'm reading a sci fi book recommended by a friend that isn't particularly good but I'm about ¾ of the way through so I'll finish it. My husband doesn't really like science fiction so I'm kind of on my own looking for new stuff. The current book, The Wild Shore, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is kind of slow and lame.
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on April 05, 2024, 12:12:34 AM »Yes and also no.
The miniseries that launched the series? Absolutely worth it, but Lucy Lawless isn't in it.
She comes in around the end of season 2. Annnnnnd... eh.
She's fantastic, but what she is given to work with isn't great.
I don't want to give spoilers, but she essentially breaks down over time. A true follower of the faith to someone screwed over by prophesy.
If you do any web searches at all about her character, spoilers will pop like a soap bubble.
Also...
https://www.diasfora.co.uk/index.php?topic=5571.0
The miniseries that launched the series? Absolutely worth it, but Lucy Lawless isn't in it.
She comes in around the end of season 2. Annnnnnd... eh.
She's fantastic, but what she is given to work with isn't great.
I don't want to give spoilers, but she essentially breaks down over time. A true follower of the faith to someone screwed over by prophesy.
If you do any web searches at all about her character, spoilers will pop like a soap bubble.
Also...
https://www.diasfora.co.uk/index.php?topic=5571.0
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TV / Movies / Re: Late to the party dept.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 04, 2024, 09:03:02 PM »I was looking at a series called "my life is murder" by "looking at the series," I mean my husband mentioned it so I looked it up online. It stars Lucy Lawless, aka Xena Warrior Princess. As I was reading Wiki entry, I see there's more Battlestar Galactica than I had known about. Series from the early 2000s and a prequel. Lawless apparently acts in some of them.
Info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)
So here's my question. Is this worth watching? (BG, I mean, not the murder series). Thanks in advance.
Info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)
So here's my question. Is this worth watching? (BG, I mean, not the murder series). Thanks in advance.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on April 04, 2024, 03:07:30 AM »Can't find taco sauce anywhere in town. Also, can't find lettuce or sour cream, but taco sauce was something I could do something about.
Took a half bottle of Texas pete (underwhelming poo) and dumped it in a pot with two cans of tomato sauce.
Still too spicy so I added half a cup of water. Still too spicy, but the yield was already too large.
So, I dumped it over a tray of already made red enchiladas, and it was fantastic. There's something to be said for tasting a sauce in a vacuum.
The sauce was complimented. In future, I'd just use less of the hot sauce. The bottle says it has something like 35 servings, and I feel like 10 servings would have made for a tasty, not over spiced enchilada sauce.
Source: I watched a ton of enchilada sauce videos on YouTube, and didn't want to deal with corn starch slurry. (gross)
Almost went with the base ingredients and flour but felt like that's just a slightly less objectionable corn starch slurry.
I really should just go boot first into flour and get to know it, but lazy.
Took a half bottle of Texas pete (underwhelming poo) and dumped it in a pot with two cans of tomato sauce.
Still too spicy so I added half a cup of water. Still too spicy, but the yield was already too large.
So, I dumped it over a tray of already made red enchiladas, and it was fantastic. There's something to be said for tasting a sauce in a vacuum.
The sauce was complimented. In future, I'd just use less of the hot sauce. The bottle says it has something like 35 servings, and I feel like 10 servings would have made for a tasty, not over spiced enchilada sauce.
Source: I watched a ton of enchilada sauce videos on YouTube, and didn't want to deal with corn starch slurry. (gross)
Almost went with the base ingredients and flour but felt like that's just a slightly less objectionable corn starch slurry.
I really should just go boot first into flour and get to know it, but lazy.
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Chaos / Re: what will you be doing tonight
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 03, 2024, 01:23:58 PM »I don't know how I missed that McSweeney's but it's pretty funny. I had eggs over easy for lunch a couple days ago. No chocolate, though.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on April 03, 2024, 01:20:52 PM »I got a case of 12 boxes of loose tea, 200 g each, so that will last me a year since I go through about a box a month.
Just had a toasted "English muffin" with some Trader Joe's curried chicken salad on it. A nice easy lunch but I keep promising myself to make my own. It's not hard, but it does take a little advance planning. I feel like having a cup of espresso as it's a gloomy overcast cold day. Yesterday was ridiculously beautiful, sunny, birds singing, flowers in bloom and warm. I guess the weather gods figured we'd had enough fun for a while so it's back to wintry climes.
Just had a toasted "English muffin" with some Trader Joe's curried chicken salad on it. A nice easy lunch but I keep promising myself to make my own. It's not hard, but it does take a little advance planning. I feel like having a cup of espresso as it's a gloomy overcast cold day. Yesterday was ridiculously beautiful, sunny, birds singing, flowers in bloom and warm. I guess the weather gods figured we'd had enough fun for a while so it's back to wintry climes.
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Chaos / Re: what will you be doing tonight
« Last post by smokester on April 03, 2024, 08:39:41 AM »https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-im-jesus-and-when-i-get-back-i-want-all-the-eggs-hidden
We didn't hide the eggs. Even worse, I ate mine early.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on April 03, 2024, 07:28:22 AM »thats a big box of tea