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2012-05-23T21:30:03Z Blushing (thing)http://everything2.com/user/borgo/writeups/Blushingborgohttp://everything2.com/user/borgo2012-05-23T17:09:19Z2012-05-23T17:09:19Z There you are, locked in an interview with your prospective employer. Things are going well enough when all of sudden the urge to <a href="/title/break+wind">break wind</a> becomes unbearable. Rather than ask to be momentarily excused you decide to try and tough it out but sooner rather than later nature fulfills her destiny and the unmistakable sound and accompanying odor infiltrate the room. Rather than ask the interviewer something asinine like "Did you hear that?" or "<a href="/title/What%2527s+that+smell%253F">What's that smell?</a>" you sit there in stunned silence. The interviewer just glares at you and soon you feel your face getting warm and then your cheeks begin to get hot. You are embarrassed and rightly so. You start to turn a deep shade of crimson and you just can't make it stop. Not to worry my soon to be dismissed friend, the symptoms that just occurred are all natural to us humans and each and every one of us blushes at one time or another in our lives. We are also unique in that experience as no other animal seems to blush or suffer from… Chicken Paws (recipe)http://everything2.com/user/moeyz/writeups/Chicken+Pawsmoeyzhttp://everything2.com/user/moeyz2012-05-23T16:31:25Z2012-05-23T16:31:25Z In the meat section of the grocery store, I was just looking for some <a href="/title/Lamb+Chop">boneless free-range lamb chops</a>. I dislike the taste of lamb, even if it's slathered with mint jelly, always have, always will. But I'm shopping for my mother, with under 2000 mgs. of sodium <a href="/title/dietary">dietary</a> restriction from the cardiologist and my dietician sister's directions to fatten her up. <a href="/title/Do+not+take+advice+from+someone+named+after+a+reentry+vehicle">Not the usual advice</a> from dieticians, but my mother lost too much weight in the last few months. Then there are <a href="/title/When+You+Are+Old">the things my mother wants</a>. Chicken Paws is not on the list. They are, however, right where the lamb chops were the last time, so I pick them up and like any normal shopper, take a photo with my <a href="/title/cell+phone">cell phone</a>. A tiny brunette, in her <a href="/title/Psychedelic+Yoga">yoga</a> outfit and talking to someone heatedly on her <a href="/title/bluetooth">bluetooth</a>, stops and says to me, " my grandmother had a great recipe for those, really easy, and everyone loves it." I figure I'll… Paul Krugman (person)http://everything2.com/user/Jet-Poop/writeups/Paul+KrugmanJet-Poophttp://everything2.com/user/Jet-Poop2012-05-23T15:37:20Z2012-05-23T15:37:20Z American <a href="/title/economist">economist</a>, <a href="/title/professor">professor</a>, <a href="/title/author">author</a>, and <a href="/title/pundit">pundit</a>, born in 1953 to traveling circus folk in <a href="/title/Zipperhead%252C+New+York">Zipperhead, New York</a>. He grew up traveling throughout the Northeast with his family in <a href="/title/Lucifer+Bleake%2527s+Traveling+Darkside+Carnival+and+Hell+Circus">Lucifer Bleake's Traveling Darkside Carnival and Hell Circus</a>, one of a number of <a href="/title/evil+carnival">evil carnival</a>s that roamed the nation during the early to mid-20th century, seeking <a href="/title/soul">soul</a>s to enslave and <a href="/title/fantasy+writer">fantasy writer</a>s to inspire. While his family tempted and devoured farmhands and schoolteachers, young Paul learned all the trades of the circus -- tent set-up and take-down, <a href="/title/trapeze">trapeze</a> <a href="/title/acrobatics">acrobatics</a>, <a href="/title/clown">clown</a> wrangling, barking, <a href="/title/human+cannonball">human cannonball</a>ing, <a href="/title/international+economics">international economics</a> and <a href="/title/trade+theory">trade theory</a>, and beating the <a href="/title/geek">geek</a> when he escaped from his cage. Coincidentally, that geek eventually grew up to become fellow New York Times columnist <a href="/title/Thomas+Friedman">Thomas Friedman</a>. Upon fleeing from the circus just prior to the big top being sucked into Hell in 1970, Krugman earned a dual bachelor's degree in <a href="/title/economics">economics</a> and… Dust my eyes with myriad stars (place)http://everything2.com/user/raincomplex/writeups/Dust+my+eyes+with+myriad+starsraincomplexhttp://everything2.com/user/raincomplex2012-05-23T15:13:01Z2012-05-23T15:13:01Z <a href="/title/A+glimmer+in+my+eye">Agime</a> walked through where we kept our dessicated taxidermy and <a href="/title/a+stuffed+bear%252C+a+hallway+lined+with+dinosaur+tracks">faded handpainted savana trees</a> butterflies pinned in their cases by the clock hall <a href="/title/cat+soup">metal alchemical skeletal whirring</a> and clicking nearly the other side of the world at the opposite of a museum (a gas station) i am sitting caught in a breeze, window rolled to an inch ( smell of the road on a long trip ) that streetlight feeling of reststop highway exhaust a chain pizza shop with tired and unexpectedly friendly staff having the kind of day you can tell that smile is their first relieved laughter <a href="/title/One+by+one+we+threw+our+eyes+into+the+sea">But at the museum the named one is walking</a>. "We come in with nothing," <a href="/title/Your+veil+across+the+stars">Yvats</a> says, dew forming under the soles of her feet and along the path she traces with her finger across the glass of the butterfly case, "… Motorcycle Emptiness (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/xunker/writeups/Motorcycle+Emptinessxunkerhttp://everything2.com/user/xunker2012-05-23T03:24:50Z2012-05-23T03:24:50Z There is this book, "<a href="/title/Zen+and+the+art+of+Motorcycle+Maintenance">Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a>." I have a copy, but I've never read it. Never even cracked the spine. The subtitle says it is "An Inquiry into Values". But what does that mean. Finding out what you <a href="/title/value">value</a>? Why you value it? What "value" even means? Who has time for that? Well, the <a href="/title/Robert+Persig">author</a>, obviously, but that's not me. You can't build a philosophy by <a href="/title/writing">writing</a> about. I don't get on my motorcycle to inquire after anything. I am not out there to ponder my life, I am there to be as far away from it as I can. I don't want to find myself, I want to lose myself. <a href="/title/National+Highway+Traffic+Safety+Administration">The Man</a> says that the odds of dying on a motorcycle are about twelve times higher than in a <a href="/title/car">car</a>. I like to think that's the figure for <a href="/title/mere+mortals">mere mortals</a> and I am doing my best to get that number to be much, much higher. Partly it's for the saying that "only when close to death do you know what… Double Identity (review)http://everything2.com/user/Tem42/writeups/Double+IdentityTem42http://everything2.com/user/Tem422012-05-23T00:37:26Z2012-05-23T00:37:26Z Double Identity by <a href="/title/Margaret+Peterson+Haddix">Margaret Peterson Haddix</a> <a href="/title/Simon+%2526+Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a> Books, 2005 A <a href="/title/young+adult">young adult</a> novel intended for children 10-13; it is mostly a <a href="/title/mystery">mystery</a>, I suppose, although it also has an important <a href="/title/science+fiction">science fiction</a> element. Whatever you classify it as, it has received good reviews and is an easy and engaging read, although I don't think it quite makes the category of "<a href="/title/children%2527s+literature">children's books</a> I would recommend to adults". The story follows Bethany Cole, a 12-year-old girl who has led a mostly regular life; this changes suddenly one night when her parents pack her bags and load her into the family car without explanation. They eventually drop her off at her aunt's house -- an aunt she didn't even know that she had. Her parents leave her there, without a word of explanation, and her aunt doesn't seem inclined to explain anything either. And that is the premise of the story. Bethany spends the rest of the book… spy story (thing)http://everything2.com/user/teleny/writeups/spy+storytelenyhttp://everything2.com/user/teleny2012-05-22T23:46:23Z2012-05-22T23:46:23Z To be read to "<a href="/title/Are+you+going+with+me">Are you going with me</a>?" by <a href="/title/Pat+Metheny">Pat Metheny</a>.... Picture a <a href="/title/New+Jersey">New Jersey</a> <a href="/title/boardwalk">boardwalk</a> in <a href="/title/winter">winter</a>...a solitary walker, wrapped in a <a href="/title/trench+coat">trench coat</a>. Lots of <a href="/title/fog">fog</a>. He's lost in thought, other times other places...that girl in <a href="/title/Prague">Prague</a>, that affair in <a href="/title/Korea">Korea</a>, that time that ended so badly, and only we know, in the <a href="/title/Middle+East">Middle East</a>... And then...another walker. Do we see the package he's dropped? Is the other walker out to kill? All we know is that one walker emerges from the fog...is it the same one? solid state disk (thing)http://everything2.com/user/xunker/writeups/solid+state+diskxunkerhttp://everything2.com/user/xunker2012-05-22T23:35:33Z2012-05-22T23:35:33Z A solid state disk, or disc, (hereafter SSD) refers to computer <a href="/title/storage+device">primary storage</a> that has no moving parts. Whereas traditional forms of primary storage were <a href="/title/hard+drive">rust-covered Frisbees</a>, <a href="/title/floppy+disk">brown donuts</a> or <a href="/title/Tape+drive">long strands of magnetized Christmas Tree trimmings</a>, an SSD is comprised wholly of <a href="/title/Flash+Memory">Flash Memory</a>*. SSDs are a huge advancement in computer technology in that they have become one of the best ways to wrest <a href="/title/cash">cash</a> from the pockets of customers who would otherwise be completely happy with their computer if they didn't have another <a href="/title/acronym">acronym</a> to buy. This is because: Flash memory is FAST. SSDs write data and read data faster than traditional <a href="/title/rotational+media">rotational media</a> ever could. This also means that there is another open arms race for "faster". Whereas before, your standard hard drive may have been seen as current for any number of years, an SSD becomes second-hand <a href="/title/thrift+store">thrift store</a> fodder mere weeks… The Sacrifice (essay)http://everything2.com/user/swankivy/writeups/The+Sacrificeswankivyhttp://everything2.com/user/swankivy2012-05-22T20:18:34Z2012-05-22T20:18:34Z Book #52 in the series <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> by K.A. Applegate. <a href="/title/Disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>: If you've heard of <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> and you're thinking "Aww, how cute," maybe you should read my introduction to <a href="/title/The+Invasion">the first book</a> to see how wrong you are. THE SACRIFICE <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> #52 by <a href="/title/K.A.+Applegate">K.A. Applegate</a> Summarized <a href="/title/Plot">Plot</a>: During a battle, Ax meets a Yeerk that begs for its life so it can stay in bird morph and become trapped that way--<a href="/title/Mere+thoughts+of+a+life+like+that">it wants to be "free."</a> After the battle, they have to discuss war plans and they decide it'd be a good idea to <a href="/title/bomb">bomb</a> the Yeerk pool even though <a href="/title/The+Slaughter+of+the+Innocents">there are innocent people there</a>, and Cassie doesn't want to do it because she doesn't think <a href="/title/the+ends+justify+the+means">the ends justify the means</a>. During this discussion she ends up admitting to being the person who lost them the morphing cube, and Ax begins to <a href="/title/hate">hate</a> her and question his <a href="/title/loyalty">loyalty</a> to the humans. He ends up… Essence of Dad (personal)http://everything2.com/user/wertperch/writeups/Essence+of+Dadwertperchhttp://everything2.com/user/wertperch2012-05-22T20:13:57Z2012-05-22T20:13:57Z <blockquote>"Few sons, indeed. are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better"   - <a href="/title/Athena">Athena</a>, appearing to <a href="/title/Telemachus">Telemachus</a> in the form of <a href="/title/Mentor">Mentor</a></blockquote> Dear Dad, I was thinking of you the other day, and realise that I hadn't written to you in, well, basically forever. Back in my <a href="/title/boarding+school">boarding school</a> days I wrote every week, but then of course, I had to - they made me. I probably would have written to you, just not every week. At any rate, and as I was saying before I interrupted myself with excuses, you came very clearly into my thoughts quite recently. Like you, and your father before you, I enjoy growing a little kitchen garden, and I have lately started a new <a href="/title/allotment+garden">allotment</a>. I love the smell of damp earth, the very essence of the garden. I grow the things I like - Peas, cabbages, kale, tomatoes and peppers, potatoes and of course, beans. I mention this last of all because it was during the… falling knife (idea)http://everything2.com/user/mauler/writeups/falling+knifemaulerhttp://everything2.com/user/mauler2012-05-22T15:41:38Z2012-05-22T15:41:38Z In <a href="/title/investing">investing</a> jargon, a "falling knife" is a seemingly good <a href="/title/stock">stock</a> whose price is plummeting. It is a shorthand version of the old investing saw "Don't try to catch a falling knife." When the price of a seemingly good stock starts to fall rapidly, investors may be tempted to buy the stock on the assumption that it will inevitably rebound. The admonition to avoid trying to catch the "falling knife" warns investors to hold off on purchasing the stock at least until the rapidity of its fall levels off or even until the price rebounds a little bit, because otherwise the investor has no idea how much further it may fall. The reasoning is that on one hand, even good stocks may continue fall a long way in price once a <a href="/title/vicious+cycle">vicious cycle</a> of panic selling has been triggered for some reason, while on the other hand, the investor may have misjudged and this might actually be a bad stock that will never rebound. the moon in the water (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/Zephronias/writeups/the+moon+in+the+waterZephroniashttp://everything2.com/user/Zephronias2012-05-22T08:12:38Z2012-05-22T08:12:38Z I was in the hen house collectin' eggs when <a href="/title/little+brother">Toby</a> came running in, shouting my name. Most of the chickens were out, but a few were brooding and Toby running in like that just got them all worked up. Most stayed sat down and made that angry growling chicken noise, but a few who weren't all that into brooding got up and started flapping around, all panicked. I'm pretty sure a few eggs I hadn't gotten to yet broke in the mess. "Dang it Toby!" I said. We got out of the coop so's not to worry them further. I'd have to go back in later after they'd all calmed down and see if I could get the rest. "I broke it!" he wailed. "Broke what?" I said, checkin' the basket. Pretty good today, more than yesterday, but not as many as the day before. I started up to the house, and Toby followed. "You gotta come help me," he said. We went up the porch steps. "I broke it and now everyone's gonna hate me!" "Quit whinin' and tell me what you did." I opened… Like the coldest winter chill, heaven beside you (hell within) (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/Auspice/writeups/Like+the+coldest+winter+chill%252C+heaven+beside+you+%2528hell+within%2529Auspicehttp://everything2.com/user/Auspice2012-05-22T06:37:53Z2012-05-22T06:37:53Z <a href="/title/Braila%252C+Romania">Braila, Romania</a>. The sun crunches under my boots, shattered off the rime of the snow. One foot in front of another, bored soldier in the patrol checking papers of each and everyone leaving the town. Step. Step. Produce the folded, creased, yellow-stained evidence, avoid eye contact. <a href="/title/one+more+murder">Dead eyes</a> in the face of the young man in uniform. Disinterest Step. Step. Strip the gloves from your hands as you pass, strip the glue and hair away between cars. Settle in your hood and scarf and remake your disguise. As the train roars away into the woods, your ragged, snow-capped, tousle-haired head <a href="/title/the+blackberries+in+the+big+wild+garden">of downy black</a> flutters away into the winter wood, and the snowbanks eat of the dreams of a young man who never was. There are wolf teeth at your <a href="/title/chest+binding">bound breast</a>, and red lipstick on your neck. Under the snowbanks, some <a href="/title/gypsy">gypsy</a> communist woman's tousled blonde hair, the curls… The problem with Harley-Davidson motorcycles (thing)http://everything2.com/user/xunker/writeups/The+problem+with+Harley-Davidson+motorcyclesxunkerhttp://everything2.com/user/xunker2012-05-21T23:38:30Z2012-05-21T23:38:30Z WHY DO HARLEY'S SUCK SO BAD!?! <a href="/title/Harley-Davidson">HD motorcycles</a> suck, period. Anyone who's owned a <a href="/title/Ducati">Ducati</a>, a <a href="/title/Triumph">Triumph</a> or even something as pedestrian as a <a href="/title/Honda">Honda</a> knows that Harley-Davidson's are a load of garbage. So, why are they so obviously bad? Let's go down the list: <h2>TECHNOLOGY</h2> The antiquated design is basically asking for it, right? I mean, look at these "Facts": <ul> Harley Davidson V-Twin: <li>Displacement: 2 <a href="/title/hogshead">hogheads</a>.</li> <li>Horsepower: some, allegedly.</li> <li>Torque: Hopefully enough to justify the price tag.</li> <li>Fuel Economy: 2 1/2 Middle-Eastern oil-barons per driveway.</li> </ul> Useless, right? Well, let's look at some different facts, without the quotes this time: <ul> <li>All-aluminium construction.</li> <li><a href="/title/fuel+injection">sequential multiport fuel injection</a>.</li> <li>electr</li></ul>… Go the Fuck to Sleep (review)http://everything2.com/user/decoy+hunches/writeups/Go+the+Fuck+to+Sleepdecoy huncheshttp://everything2.com/user/decoy hunches2012-05-21T22:27:08Z2012-05-21T22:27:08Z <a href="/title/ISBN">ISBN</a> 978-1-61775-025-0 Author: <a href="/title/Adam+Mansbach">Adam Mansbach</a> Illustrator: <a href="/title/Ricardo+Cort%25E9s">Ricardo Cortés</a> Audio: <a href="http://vimeo.com/26403238">Noni Hazelhurst</a>, <a href="http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00551W570">Samuel</a> L. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DhNhnCD0EZtE">Jackson</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xFZ0A15Bg">Werner Herzog</a> Publisher: <a href="/title/Akashic">Akashic</a> <hr> Two years ago author Adam Mansbach jokingly announced to his Facebook friends to "Look out for my forthcoming children's book, '<a href="/title/Go+the+Fuck+to+Sleep">Go the Fuck to Sleep</a>.' " Because the Internet lacks <a href="/title/sarcasm+tag">sarcasm tags</a>, people took him at his word and were disappointed to learn that Mansbach was simply venting his frustrations at <a href="/title/terrible+twos">trying to coax his daughter to sleep</a>. After such an enthusiastic response, Mansbach decided to start <a href="/title/creating">making</a> his first <a href="/title/children%2527s+book">children's book</a>. And <a href="/title/so+a+book+was+born">so a book was born</a>. The text reads in a <a href="/title/%2522Mr.+Sandman%252C+Bring+Me+a+Dream%2522">plaintive, dreamy tone</a> reminiscent of… It always starts and ends with history (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/winston_farsoul/writeups/It+always+starts+and+ends+with+historywinston_farsoulhttp://everything2.com/user/winston_farsoul2012-05-21T22:05:49Z2012-05-21T22:05:49Z <a href="/title/tracing+over+history+not+yet+in+the+past">History Twists victors</a> 'til darkness slows <a href="/title/cigarette+break">Heaven breaks</a> <a href="/title/Bear-trap+dam">Dams</a> <a href="/title/hydroelectric+power">Dams</a> <a href="/title/break+yourself">Break, heaven</a> Slows darkness 'til <a href="/title/History+is+written+by+the+victors">Victors twist History</a> The Absolute (essay)http://everything2.com/user/swankivy/writeups/The+Absoluteswankivyhttp://everything2.com/user/swankivy2012-05-21T21:32:47Z2012-05-21T21:32:47Z Book #51 in the series <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> by K.A. Applegate. <a href="/title/Disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>: If you've heard of <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> and you're thinking "Aww, how cute," maybe you should read my introduction to <a href="/title/The+Invasion">the first book</a> to see how wrong you are. THE ABSOLUTE <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> #51 by <a href="/title/K.A.+Applegate">K.A. Applegate</a> Summarized <a href="/title/Plot">Plot</a>: The Animorphs decide to split into two teams to deal with the probable <a href="/title/infiltration">infiltration</a> of the <a href="/title/National+Guard">National Guard</a>. Jake asks Marco to take Ax and Tobias on a mission to see their state's <a href="/title/governor">governor</a> so they can get <a href="/title/military">military</a> resources committed and compete now that <a href="/title/World+War+III">all-out war</a> is imminent. The group manages to get <a href="/title/duck">duck</a> morphs, flies to the <a href="/title/capitol">capitol</a>, and tracks down the governor's <a href="/title/mansion">mansion</a>. They get into a <a href="/title/limousine">limo</a> as roaches, to find out what event the governor is going to, and find that it's some fundraising event for campaigns. But Marco reveals himself to the state's highest official--finding out… Detroit, Michigan (thing)http://everything2.com/user/mullakamakalaka/writeups/Detroit%252C+Michiganmullakamakalakahttp://everything2.com/user/mullakamakalaka2012-05-21T21:13:48Z2012-05-21T21:13:48Z <h2>The Real Story of Detroit, as of May 21, 2012</h2>By <a href="/title/Mullakamakalaka">Mullakamakalaka</a> [sic?] Detroit is the heart of major American <a href="/title/metropolitan+area">metropolitan area</a>. With an urban population of about 3.8 million people, it's on par with the urban population of the <a href="/title/Athens">Athens</a> metropolitan area, and is a top 15 urban region in the United States. The bad news, regrettably, is <a href="/title/Metro+Detroit">Metro Detroit</a> has <a href="/title/heart+disease">heart disease</a>. The region's core - Detroit - is dying. The good news, though, is that it's resilient, like a weed no one can get rid of, and some days it even flowers. That Detroit still has a pulse after all the shootings, all the stabbings, is a miracle. Put your ears up against the cement, against the brick walls, and you can hear its faint beat, like muffled sounds from an old <a href="/title/Motown">Motown</a> record. It's a sound you'll only find here. It's the roar of a Mustang's mighty engine, and the child of <a href="/title/Ford+Motor+Company">Ford</a>, <a href="/title/General+Motors">General Motors</a>, and <a href="/title/Berry+Gordy">Berry Gordy</a>. People in the suburbs are rooting for the City… Rhymes with factoid (essay)http://everything2.com/user/moeyz/writeups/Rhymes+with+factoidmoeyzhttp://everything2.com/user/moeyz2012-05-21T16:18:20Z2012-05-21T16:18:20Z After <a href="/title/Circuitous?author_id=176726#Webster 1913">exhaustive</a> online research, I found the following information: factoid was <a href="/title/Never+coin+a+phrase+if+you+can+help+it">minted</a> by Norman the Mailer in his 1937 or 1973 <a href="/title/Marilyn+Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> biography. Since facts have later come to light about her unfortunate connections with certain men of some importance, I think Mailer's account was probably <a href="/title/I%2527m+sorry%252C+but+we+can%2527t+watch+the+rest+of+MacBeth+until+it+is+censored">censored</a> by the government. Not saying it was right or wrong of the Land That I Love, just that it probably happened. William <a href="/title/The+Portrayal+of+Bill+Clinton+in+%2522The+Onion%2522">the</a> Safire, whose wonderful "On Language" essays in The New Yorker magazine were so witty and perfect, I once decoupaged one wall in my bathroom with my favorites to re-read, or <a href="/title/Xerox">xeroxed</a> them and mailed them to friends, not knowing the man would be so prolific. <a href="/title/Friends">Friends</a> called me on the phone begging me to stop; they didn't want to end up getting wire-tapped, due to his… Maybe if the Chinese invade. Maybe. (personal)http://everything2.com/user/wombat-socho/writeups/Maybe+if+the+Chinese+invade.+Maybe.wombat-sochohttp://everything2.com/user/wombat-socho2012-05-21T12:28:17Z2012-05-21T12:28:17Z This is part of a series of nodes titled Sixteen Years Before The (Antenna) Mast: My Life In The Bush With <a href="/title/signals+intelligence">SIGINT</a>. The previous node in the series is <a href="/title/Everybody+Hated+The+French">Everybody Hated The French</a>. Your understanding of what the heck is going on in here will NOT be increased if you read <a href="/title/Army+Security+Agency">Army Security Agency</a>. I arrived home from <a href="/title/Karlsruhe">Karlsruhe</a> (change at <a href="/title/Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a> Flughafen and JFK) in a mild state of shock and disorientation. I still hadn't come to terms with the fact that <a href="/title/ninety+days+in+the+bottle">the Army had refused me re-enlistment</a> and between that and a severe cold I'd picked up somewhere along the line I spent the Christmas season of 1982 pretty well out of it. I did check in with my Reserve assignment, the 99th Collection & Processing Company at <a href="/title/Fort+Meade">Fort Meade</a>; it was an Army-level strategic intel company which went to the field about once a decade, and on discovering this, I said the hell with it. Having gone through inprocessing in December, I outprocessed in January 1983 and got… Missy (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/worn-out_shoe/writeups/Missyworn-out_shoehttp://everything2.com/user/worn-out_shoe2012-05-21T09:31:46Z2012-05-21T09:31:46Z Missy, who is 12, knows when not to talk. Her dad, sitting next to her on a bench in the grocery store is on the <a href="/title/cell+phone">cell phone</a>. She is waiting with him to get her <a href="/title/allergy">allergy</a> prescription. They come about once a month and she is very patient, but clearly bored. Missy is all legs, sharp eyes behind serious <a href="/title/glasses">glasses</a> and usually carries a <a href="/title/books">book</a>. Her mother is never with them, which is because she died several years ago. Her dad works long hours and leaves her with his sister (Auntsilvia) a lot. Missy doesn't tell her dad that Auntsilvia talks loud, and smells bad (she smokes) and drives really badly. He has too much to worry about she tells her friends. Missy is verygrownupforherage. She has heard this from people for years. She used to be proud of that, but now she knows it is a phrase that sounds nicer than- "her mom died and we feel <a href="/title/sorry">sorry</a> for her." Now that she has figured it out it doesn't really mean much, but she gives her best <a href="/title/children%2527s+emotional+needs">GoodGirl</a>… I've been waiting forever (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/Tom+Rook/writeups/I%2527ve+been+waiting+foreverTom Rookhttp://everything2.com/user/Tom Rook2012-05-21T08:03:19Z2012-05-21T08:03:19Z I sit down to see what messages I've gotten from my <a href="/title/adoring+public">adoring public</a> (this shouldn't take long) click, click zero new hidden in the corner it seems I saved some to read later I used to do that all the time "I'll read it tomorrow" "I'll read it over the weekend" the oldest one is dated five years ago Bill from high school wants to know what's the <a href="/title/integral">integral</a> of the <a href="/title/secant">secant</a>-cubed of x? I always did hate <a href="/title/trigonometry">trigonometry</a> apparently, watches are more affordable than I had thought I signed up for some political newsletter whom will <a href="/title/Obama">Obama</a> choose for VP? want to make some fast cash? the answer is <a href="/title/real+estate">real estate</a> (delete) oh, now I remember you factor secant-cubed into secant times secant-squared and secant-squared equals one plus <a href="/title/tangent">tangent</a>-squared let me tell Bill real quick * * * * * * * it's four in the morning the birds are starting to chirp outside I should be asleep … The Ultimate (essay)http://everything2.com/user/swankivy/writeups/The+Ultimateswankivyhttp://everything2.com/user/swankivy2012-05-21T01:36:03Z2012-05-21T01:36:03Z Book #50 in the series <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> by K.A. Applegate. <a href="/title/Disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>: If you've heard of <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> and you're thinking "Aww, how cute," maybe you should read my introduction to <a href="/title/The+Invasion">the first book</a> to see how wrong you are. THE ULTIMATE <a href="/title/Animorphs">Animorphs</a> #50 by <a href="/title/K.A.+Applegate">K.A. Applegate</a> Summarized <a href="/title/Plot">Plot</a>: Knowing they can't just hide out and protect their parents forever, the Animorphs need to figure out some way of <a href="/title/allies">strengthening their ranks</a>. They have a few <a href="/title/contingency">contingency</a> plans for if they're found or attacked, but <a href="/title/Everything2+Sometimes+the+best+defense+is+a+good+offense">they need to do some offense of their own</a>, and Jake is lacking the <a href="/title/backbone">backbone</a> these days because having his whole family taken by the enemy took the wind out of his sails. Cassie tries to help share the load and bolsters Jake, and together they all come up with a plan to recruit more young morphers. But how can they make sure they aren't… One by one we threw our eyes into the sea (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/Auspice/writeups/One+by+one+we+threw+our+eyes+into+the+seaAuspicehttp://everything2.com/user/Auspice2012-05-21T00:55:15Z2012-05-21T00:55:15Z I just came down to the ocean to get away from it all, you know. I didn't expect this, and I didn't expect you, or the <a href="/title/whale+song">whale song</a> that keeps me awake and puts me to sleep. But now that it's started, I don't suppose either of us can walk away. <hr> The food in the hotel - the inn, I guess they call it, is what I'm beginning to believe is fairly standard <a href="/title/British">British</a> cuisine. It's terrible. This entire vacation was a mistake. And if I'd known, I wouldn't have gone down to the beach. They were telling me ridiculous tales about <a href="/title/mermaids+at+tea">mermaids</a> even while they were handing me a lantern. <hr> Microfleece doesn't help with the cold, but wool itches, and there's nothing for it. It's better than the inn - you know, I think they've got bed bugs there. I've had bites... oh. Well, you wouldn't know what they are, would you. I wish you'd wake up. I wish you'd let me go. <hr> I had this boyfriend, a Classics major, who didn't like… Peanut butter and honey crepes (recipe)http://everything2.com/user/Auspice/writeups/Peanut+butter+and+honey+crepesAuspicehttp://everything2.com/user/Auspice2012-05-21T00:04:12Z2012-05-21T00:04:12Z <blockquote>3 eggs 1 1/2 cup of flour 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup water 4 T melted butter 4 T melted peanut butter 3 T brown sugar 4 T honey 2 t cinnamon </blockquote> <a href="/title/Whisk">Whisk</a> together egg and flour in medium-sized bowl, pour in milk, whisk, add water, continue whisking. Add butter, brown sugar, honey, and cinnamon. Melt the peanut butter partially, then add to the batter and whisk until smooth. The resulting concoction should be slightly less thick than <a href="/title/pancake">pancake</a> batter. If it isn't, add a bit of milk. Butter or spray a small frying pan, heat on high. Pour 1/8th of a cup of the batter into the pan. When the edges solidify and the first bubble surfaces at the center, flip the crepe over and allow to brown on the opposite side. Stack on a plate as you go. This recipe should make 10-12 crepes. They're remarkably good with more peanut butter, some melted butter, and some <a href="/title/lingonberry">lingonberry</a> preserves. Addition of maple syrup on top of peanut butter and lingonberries was also a success.

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