Happy birthday to my baby sister, Margret! (I posted a few pictures of us from her wedding in July here.) May you have a terrific one, Sis!
And happy early birthday to two other fabulous people,
delenn1960 and lbilover. May you both have fantastic days and wonderful years to come!
A few notes:
* io9 poses a thought-provoking question: "Do You Really Want Science Fiction Books to be More Literary?"
* GeekDad has posted a list of "10 Favorite Actors from Geeky Movies and TV." It includes some of my personal favorites, including Sir Ian Holm, Lance Henriksen, Nathan Fillion, Clancy Brown, Alan Rickman, and of course The Chin himself, Bruce Campbell. What's not to love? (My one nitpick: I would have included Jeffrey Combs for both talent and geek cred.)
* Do we really want another Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, now that Douglas Adams is gone? Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl series, is giving us one. The Times is unimpressed.
* Now that I have the 10th Anniversary Edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in hand, here is my revised/updated list of books coming out in the next few weeks/months that already are available for preorder and about which I'm quite excited: in October, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee; in November, Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Melissa Anelli and Watermind by M.M. Buckner; in December, The Vorkosigan Companion by Lillian S. Carl and The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling; and in January, The Sharing Knife: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold.
* It's not just infatuation: I'm officially in love with my brand new Zojirushi rice cooker. I've made several different kinds of rice already as well as Irish oatmeal. Next stop: couscous. If anyone has any special recommendations for vegetarian rice cooker recipes, please let me know. Thank you so much!
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
And happy early birthday to two other fabulous people,
delenn1960 and lbilover. May you both have fantastic days and wonderful years to come!A few notes:
* io9 poses a thought-provoking question: "Do You Really Want Science Fiction Books to be More Literary?"
* GeekDad has posted a list of "10 Favorite Actors from Geeky Movies and TV." It includes some of my personal favorites, including Sir Ian Holm, Lance Henriksen, Nathan Fillion, Clancy Brown, Alan Rickman, and of course The Chin himself, Bruce Campbell. What's not to love? (My one nitpick: I would have included Jeffrey Combs for both talent and geek cred.)
* Do we really want another Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, now that Douglas Adams is gone? Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl series, is giving us one. The Times is unimpressed.
* Now that I have the 10th Anniversary Edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in hand, here is my revised/updated list of books coming out in the next few weeks/months that already are available for preorder and about which I'm quite excited: in October, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee; in November, Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Melissa Anelli and Watermind by M.M. Buckner; in December, The Vorkosigan Companion by Lillian S. Carl and The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling; and in January, The Sharing Knife: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold.
* It's not just infatuation: I'm officially in love with my brand new Zojirushi rice cooker. I've made several different kinds of rice already as well as Irish oatmeal. Next stop: couscous. If anyone has any special recommendations for vegetarian rice cooker recipes, please let me know. Thank you so much!
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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I have been thinking about getting a rice cooker largely because of Alton Brown and his oatmeal advice. *writes down Zojirushi*
This rice cooker is amazing. I ended up spending more than I'd intended, but I can already see it will pay for itself. I've used it at least once every day since I've had it! For oatmeal, I bought steel-cut oats, and some mornings I mix in either some dried cranberries or chopped walnuts to change things a little. It's fantastic. And the best thing about this cooker is that you can set the timer and its "fuzzy logic" takes over based on the amount of ingredients you add. So I put in the oats and water at night, tell the machine what time I want it to be ready in the morning, and then I wake up to warm and yummy oatmeal (and a house that smells like it, too!).
It makes the best rice I've ever tasted - plain white, basmati, brown, etc. And it has a function that will keep rice (or whatever's in there, including oatmeal) warmed up to 12 hours without burning it or drying it out.
If you end up getting a rice cooker, and you're interested, I've found some recipes I'd be glad to share with you. I'm working up to get adventurous and make an eggplant curry, which is one of my favorite dishes, but I've never made it before. (I don't exactly "cook," you might say. I warm things, and occasionally stir them, but I don't exactly cook. LOL!)
Which model do you have? I see there are several.
I've named mine Artoo. :)
I added chopped onion to the rice and water in my $15 3-cup rice cooker, and the extra steam from the onions blew the plastic gasket on the steam hole across the room. Ooops. But I can't cook rice in a pot without burning it or getting glop.
Do we really want another Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book, now that Douglas Adams is gone?
There *can't* be another Douglas Adams book without Douglas Adams. You know, it wasn't about the story - it was his voice, his humor, his wit, his insights, that made his books so extraordinary. You can't duplicate that (and why would I want you to?) This is WRONG (not in the good way.)
I feel your pain re: Douglas Adams, especially with the "why would you want to?" question.
Rice is good. Basmati's my favorite -- I actually made some last night, but I don't have a rice cooker. Do you like Indian food?
Rice is, indeed, good. And I love Indian food. And I still owe you an email. *headdesk*
It's a strange coincidence that you would bring up rice. I had a conversation - I use that word loosely - with ReeRee on Monday about how much I love rice. She thought I was exaggerating when I tried to explain my feelings; she can't understand the depth of my love for rice.