Yes, it's true! The Mine had back-to-back supply runs for Bakesale Betty's.
I know plenty about Macs, all the way down to some obscure tricks and keyboard shortcuts, but some of them are rarely used and need to be refreshed with visits to the Help menu or Google searches. However, this trick from Lifehacker is one I hadn't heard, yet something I'd so commonly use that I'm surprised it's not better documented:Fine tune volume in OS X by holding down Alt(Option)+Shift then pressing the volume adjuster buttons. Also if you hit the volume down button till it shows the mute sign then hit the mute key it will play very quietly.
No, it's not Big Daddy Kane, but FMD Nevub claims to have a third miracle in the works, so I figured it was about time to start filing the paperwork and figuring out trappings and trinkets. Chief among them will be some kind of badge, likely in the form of a multifinger trunk ring.
I wish I had Jordan Carver waiting on my desk for me this morning. Nope, I got work instead. Dammit.
Damn Tax Day! Meanwhile, it's easy to get distracted when it's cold...but distracted isn't always so bad.
The NY Times tells me something I already knew:What is it about cilantro that makes it so unpleasant for people in cultures that don’t much use it?Found on the newstubes.
Some people may be genetically predisposed to dislike cilantro, according to often-cited studies by Charles J. Wysocki of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. But cilantrophobe genetics remain little known and aren’t under systematic investigation. Meanwhile, history, chemistry and neurology have been adding some valuable pieces to the puzzle.
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Modern cilantrophobes tend to describe the offending flavor as soapy rather than buggy. I don’t hate cilantro, but it does sometimes remind me of hand lotion. Each of these associations turns out to make good chemical sense.
Flavor chemists have found that cilantro aroma is created by a half-dozen or so substances, and most of these are modified fragments of fat molecules called aldehydes. The same or similar aldehydes are also found in soaps and lotions and the bug family of insects.
Soaps are made by fragmenting fat molecules with strongly alkaline lye or its equivalent, and aldehydes are a byproduct of this process, as they are when oxygen in the air attacks the fats and oils in cosmetics. And many bugs make strong-smelling, aldehyde-rich body fluids to attract or repel other creatures.
The published studies of cilantro aroma describe individual aldehydes as having both cilantrolike and soapy qualities. Several flavor chemists told me in e-mail messages that they smell a soapy note in the whole herb as well, but still find its aroma fresh and pleasant.
ONOZ! Cover your poopers, it's Ben Roethlisberger!
And now for something completely different: art, this time by Ryan Kinnaird. I was first acquainted with his work on the covers of Playstation Magazine, and a few comic covers. Apparently, he also does character designs for Sodapop Miniatures.
La Colombiana sounds like more like a nom de guerre -- in the literal sense, like some drug kingpin or jungle warlord -- than a Maxim Hometown Hottie, but here she is.
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