Seth's father's legendary Mashed Potato recipe:

5lbs potato

8 sour cream

8oz cream cheese

a stick of butta

sprinkle bread crumbs

stick it in the oven at 250F till barely golden

I will modify it to add copious quantities of garlic and perhaps some cheddar for the meal tonight.

Cookingforengineers has nothing to add, so perhaps I'm good for now.



[Update: 12:08am]

The potatoes were a smashing success!

My final modifications were to add to the above:

+1.5 sticks of butta

4 garlic cloves

fresh ground garlic

.5 cups heavy cream (scalded)

.5 lbs Sharp Cheddar

stuck in the oven at 350 for ten minutes

And now I must go help clean up.

The best University of Michigan commercial ever just played during the halftime of the Michigan/Ohio State game.

It just says "Apollo 15, an all U of M crew."

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I'm only getting a spelling error on the first word.

Hmmm.

jeanne's cat snores and sounds like an owl

Google just announced scholar.google.com.

This would have been ridiculously useful back in UROP. Scirus and the other science search engines are pretty lacking.

Sigh. The results from this query now make me want to cry. There's so much more in 2004 than in 1998.

Damn you gratuitously plastic dinoflagellates! Damn your twenty four morphologies.

The bodega across the street has something like forty boxes of cereal.

We looked at five to ten this evening, and all were expired.

yowza

Gmail finally gave me pop access today.

It isn't IMAP, but I can at least go back to using Apple Mail now.

Gali points out:

as discussed:

Main Entry: asa·fet·i·da
Variant(s): or asa·foe·ti·da /"a-s&-'fe-t&-d&, -'fE-; Southern also
-'fi-t&-dE/
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English asafetida, from Medieval Latin asafoetida,
from Persian azA mastic + Latin foetida, feminine of foetidus fetid
: the dried fetid gum resin of the root of several west Asian plants
(genus Ferula) of the carrot family used as a flavoring especially in
Indian cooking and formerly used in medicine especially as an
antispasmodic and in folk medicine as a general prophylactic against
disease.



Also, I was given a Burger King Crown at a client's office today.

Badly paraphrasing a french king: The kingdom is worth the paper crown.

Gmail finally gave me pop access today.

It isn't IMAP, but I can at least go back to using Apple Mail now.

The funniest thing I've seen all week.

And, new years plans anybody? How about New York this time? I've got a place in harlem for people to crash...

This is why I love New York:

Do Pretty Girls Ride The Subway: "

Someone hacked into the MTA's computer system yesterday and changed the LED message at the West Fourth Station to read "PRETTY GIRLS DON'T RIDE THE SUBWAY." Apparently, the new message appeared for several hours until 8PM last night, and the MTA is investigating whether or not it was an "inside job" or someone who has never had a reason to post a subway missed connection on craigslist. Of course, the female straphangers are annoyed. One told the Daily News, "It's a vicious lie." But one found some humor in it: "Pretty women take the subway so we can go spend money on more important things - like alcohol." You go, girl! And, clearly, Gothamist believes the subway is filled with lovely ladies, as well as handsome fellas, adorable babies, that person who didn't wear deodorant, the woman with too much perform, a leering skeeve, the arguing couple, the out-of-towners who think if you're on an orange line you'll go the same place, kids trying to sell you M&Ms, and countless others.

This is yet another investigative coup for the Daily News, who apparently researched the story yesterday (their picture is at right). Last week, it broke the MTA's acceptance of an ad promoting oral sex. Gothamist on the F train's rep as the "love train" and subway love in general. And in MTA budget news, even though they are slashing or raising fares everywhere else, the MTA is not taking deep cuts at headquarters.

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(Via Gothamist.)