Espresso? Stick it in my veins!

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Ok, but *why?*

tj:

Rather than just importing your Last.fm data, I’d be a lot more interested to hear why you were listening to those songs? Is one of the your favorite “stressed and need music” song? Does one of them let you block out others? Does one band remind you of a time in your life that you like to revisit?

Any of those things would be meaningful.

Just dumping the data every week really isn’t.

I hope @tj had this auto-post to his twitter feed.
ETA: Dear friends who have set this up, I am not secretly angry with you. In fact these posts are probably the only exposure to new music I regularly get. It’s more that he has a good point.

Alan Taylor, director “The Sopranos” and “Rome”, via The Stories of One Brooklyn Block - NYTimes.com said:

I didn’t want [my children] to grow up in SoHo or TriBeCa in a ghetto of people who, probably, I’m perceived as being. We are a family of white people in strollers; we don’t want to be surrounded by families of white people with strollers.

Aunt Joella’s “World Famous” Granola

I was inspired by my acquaintance and former classmate, @destroyer’s excellent Ask MetaFilter thread about how to eat healthier, simpler, and cheaper.

How inspired you might ask? So incredibly inspired that I went so far as to repost an entry from the dark days of LiveJournal.

The below is a very simple and cheap way to stretch a buck and make sure you eat some very healthy breakfast every morning. Substitutions and additions are encouraged and almost always work out very well.

Aunt Joella’s “World Famous” Granola

Basic Ingredients

• 5 C rolled oats
• 1 C dry milk powder*
• 1 C soy flour*
• 1 C vegetable oil
• 1 C honey

Extended Ingredients Set

On top of these basic things you can add pretty much whatever you like, in any amount that you like. Some possibilities are listed below. I usually add ~ 1/4 C of each extra ingredient for a total of ~ 1 - 1 1/2 C of extra goodies.

• chopped walnuts
• sesame seeds
• sunflower seeds
• wheat germ
• oat bran
• flax seed (whole or milled)
• coconut
• raisins†
• dried cranberries†

Baking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Mix all dry ingredients together†, in a lightly oiled roasting pan or large unoiled mixing bowl
3. Add and mix in oil & honey
   Note: Measure & add oil 1st, then measure honey in same measuring cup and the honey will glide smoothly out of the measuring cup
4. If you mixed in a mixing bowl, transfer granola to a lightly oiled roasting pan or jelly pan
5. Bake for 20 - 45 minutes, stirring at least every 15 minutes. Bake times can vary depending on how toasted you want the granola, how spread out it is in the pan, etc. Really it’s hard to screw this part up—unless you don’t stir it
6. Allow to cool, stirring every 10 - 15 minutes to prevent clumping

Notes

Most of these ingredients can be found very cheaply in your local bulk food section. Whole Foods Fresh Pond even has bulk honey, which is pretty much the most expensive ingredient.

* Soy Flour & Powdered Milk

These are added mostly to provide more protein. Substituting rice flour, coconut flower, milled flax seed, or some other such hippy nonsense is just fine.

† Raisin & Dried Cranberries

If the these seem like they get hard for 20+ minutes of baking, you can add them in at after 10 minutes of baking.

Beer to be sold in dead animals

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