Wednesday, March 18, 2009
DYK: Did You Know?
Did you know that AllRecipies.com has a search engine that allows searches by ingredient! Awesome! I want this for my fave recipes. I'm hoping my super-smart, super-hot, super-satisfied-by-a-home-cooked-meal-computer-programmer husband might make something similair for me.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Holidays March On
Tuesday was square root day: 3rd day of 3rd month of year '09 - 3x3=9. (It won't happen again until 4-4-'16.)
Yesterday was Grammar Day*!
What's today? Molecule Day?
And is tomorrow Pangea Day?
*The Grammartini
How to Mix a Perfect Grammartini
Pour two-and-a-half ounces of gin, a half-ounce of dry vermouth and several ice cubes into a martini shaker.
Shake. (The shaker—not your body or your dog’s paw.)
Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an olive. If you must, use a lemon twist instead. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar likes olives, however. When life hands us lemons, we make lemonade.
Yesterday was Grammar Day*!
What's today? Molecule Day?
And is tomorrow Pangea Day?
*The Grammartini
How to Mix a Perfect Grammartini
Pour two-and-a-half ounces of gin, a half-ounce of dry vermouth and several ice cubes into a martini shaker.
Shake. (The shaker—not your body or your dog’s paw.)
Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an olive. If you must, use a lemon twist instead. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar likes olives, however. When life hands us lemons, we make lemonade.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Hard to Imagine T.J. Wrote These 200+ Years Ago.....
Via Carey via email
John Kennedy once said to a assembled group of scholars in the White House: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
The quotes below could prove his point.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:'
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
John Kennedy once said to a assembled group of scholars in the White House: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
The quotes below could prove his point.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:'
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
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