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Re: The cranky thread Very much so.

Re: Musings on Random Musings My wife has made 100s of this recipe: (She doesn't put the nuts on, hence the ick comment) Brownies from 365 Great Chocolate Desserts by Natalie Haughton Without a doubt - the best brownies ever. Very chocolatey, not very sweet. Ingredients: 5 (1 oz) square unsweetened chocolate, cut up 2 sticks butter 1 3/4 C sugar (I only use 1 1/2C) 1/4 C light corn syrup 2 tsp. vanilla 4 eggs 1/4 tsp salt 1 C sifted flour 3/4 C chopped pecans (I NEVER use nuts) 1 C semisweet chocolate chips 1. Preheat oven to 350F. In a 2 quart glass bowl, combine unsweetened chocolate and butter. Heat in a microwave oven on High for 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 minutes, or until chocolate is melted and smooth when stirred. 2. with a fork, beat in sugar, corn syrup, vanilla and eggs until well blended. Mix in salt and flour until well mixed. 3. Spread evenly in a greased, foil lined (and I grease the foil as well) 9 X 13 inch baking pan. Sprinkle nuts (ick) and chocolate chips over top. Bake 30 - 35 minutes, or until set. Do not overbake. Let cool before cutting into bars. (What I do - when they're cool, life the whole thing out by the foil, and then cut. You can then sort of peel them off the foil. Much easier.)

Re: Musings on Random Musings My wife has been making cheesecakes and other items for a lot of people lately. She's expecting a lot of orders for thanksgiving. (One needs to be in town, or in a spot that one of us is visiting soon.)

Re: Musings on Random Musings For some people, the presidential race has been about color. Not on the boards as far as I can tell, but there are plenty of real life examples. (And we should move this topic out of the thread really)

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Just because something that is wrong has been happening a long time, does not excuse it from being corrected.

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Great advice for a vegetarian! (I just use spell check)

Re: Small Town Superhumans? Well, being that Champions was written by SF Bay people, not surprising. Write what you know... And yea, San Francisco isn't that big, but the entire metro area is pretty large, plus covers a lot of different terrain.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Re: "Neat" Pictures Wind as art For the animated one: http://hint.fm/wind/

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... I adopted a cat to a family who were expecting a new baby soon, but other residents at their house were a rabbit, a ferret, and another cat. The new cat wound up mothering all of them. More on Cats and Rabbits

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute...

Re: The cranky thread I used to do cat butt baths for the cats that had incontinence issues at the sanctuary, but most of them were pretty good about it.

Re: In The Cards

Re: In The Cards Is pretty much what most of my players would be doing. (as well as I myself). Never really into the allowing the main threat get any sort of measure. Definite difference in play style.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'd say that cynicism tends to block off certain opportunities (and sometimes reinforcing the initial cynical attitude). Trusting tends to let someone in close to really screw you over.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Bah!

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Broken Arrow, mainly for seeing if I could recognize some of the scenery since it was filmed around here.

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Yep. I hate the phrase “Hey, technically, it’s legal!”

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/12/Over-40-Fantastic-Animal-Halloween-Costumes/

Re: The cranky thread My condolonces Klytus.

Re: The cranky thread Trivial things to be cranky about: House sitting, so I have access to her DVD library and TV. She's got some stuff setup on her DISH to record, so I figured I'd watch some DVDs during those periods of time. Apparently her DVD player has an issue about 90% of the way thru a film. Though it might have something to do with specific DVDs, nope. I've now watched 90% of five different films. Will be borrowing some films to watch when I go back home...

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Ear plugs and a moist towelette for any stray eye juice.

Re: The Last Word He was able to use Levels with Reading on OCV possibly?

Re: The cranky thread

Re: Musings on Random Musings How about '[[]T' just in case it's using some regex, but not the \ bit?